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AMFIPOLIS (Ancient city) SERRES
. . at Amphipolis a man named Cleotimus led the additional settlers that came from Chalcis and on their arrival stirred them up to sedition against the wealthy
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Xerxes, after having enumerated his armaments, pushed on with the entire army, and the whole fleet accompanied the land forces in their advance as far as the city of Acanthus, and from there the ships passed through the place where the canal had been dug into the other sea expeditiously and without loss.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
At this time the city of Mende also revolted to the Lacedaemonians and made the quarrel over Scione the more bitter. Consequently Brasidas removed the children and women and all the most valuable property from Mende and Scione and safeguarded the cities with strong garrisons, whereupon the Athenians, being incensed at what had taken place, voted to put to the sword all the Scionaeans from the youth upward, when they should take the city, and sent a naval force of fifty triremes against them, the command of which was held by Nicias and Nicostratus.They sailed to Mende first and conquered it with the aid of certain men who betrayed it; then they threw a wall about Scione, settled down to a siege, and launched unceasing assaults upon it. (Diod. Siculus 12.72.7-9)
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
From there, keeping on his left hand the gulf off Poseideion, Xerxes traversed the plain of Syleus (as they call it), passing by the Greek town of Stagirus, and came to Acanthus.
DION (Ancient city) PIERIA
There are many untruths believed by the Greeks, one of which is that Orpheus was a son of the Muse Calliope, and not of the daughter of Pierus, that the beasts followed him fascinated by his songs, and that he went down alive to Hades to ask for his wife from the gods below. In my opinion Orpheus excelled his predecessors in the beauty of his verse, and reached a high degree of power because he was believed to have discovered mysteries, purification from sins, cures of diseases and means of averting divine wrath. But they say that the women of the Thracians plotted his death, because he had persuaded their husbands to accompany him in his wanderings, but dared not carry out their intention through fear of their husbands. Flushed with wine, however, they dared the deed, and hereafter the custom of their men has been to march to battle drunk. Some say that Orpheus came to his end by being struck by a thunderbolt, hurled at him by the god because he revealed sayings in the mysteries to men who had not heard them before. Others have said that his wife died before him, and that for her sake he came to Aornum in Thesprotis, where of old was an oracle of the dead. He thought, they say, that the soul of Eurydice followed him, but turning round he lost her, and committed suicide for grief. The Thracians say that such nightingales as nest on the grave of Orpheus sing more sweetly and louder than others. The Macedonians who dwell in the district below Mount Pieria and the city of Dium say that it was here that Orpheus met his end at the hands of the women. Going from Dium along the road to the mountain, and advancing twenty stades, you come to a pillar on the right surmounted by a stone urn, which according to the natives contains the bones of Orpheus. There is also a river called Helicon. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the earth. After a gap of about twenty-two stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyra instead of Helicon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dium say that at first this river flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the river sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter. In Larisa I heard another story, how that on Olympus is a city Libethra, where the mountain faces, Macedonia, not far from which city is the tomb of Orpheus. The Libethrians, it is said, received out of Thrace an oracle from Dionysus, stating that when the sun should see the bones of Orpheus, then the city of Libethra would be destroyed by a boar. The citizens paid little regard to the oracle, thinking that no other beast was big or mighty enough to take their city, while a boar was bold rather than powerful. But when it seemed good to the god the following events befell the citizens. About midday a shepherd was asleep leaning against the grave of Orpheus, and even as he slept he began to sing poetry of Orpheus in a loud and sweet voice. Those who were pasturing or tilling nearest to him left their several tasks and gathered together to hear the shepherd sing in his sleep. And jostling one another and striving who could get nearest the shepherd they overturned the pillar, the urn fell from it and broke, and the sun saw whatever was left of the bones of Orpheus. Immediately when night came the god sent heavy rain, and the river Sys (Boar ), one of the torrents about Olympus, on this occasion threw down the walls of Libethra, overturning sanctuaries of gods and houses of men, and drowning the inhabitants and all the animals in the city. When Libethra was now a city of ruin, the Macedonians in Dium, according to my friend of Larisa, carried the bones of Orpheus to their own country. Whoever has devoted himself to the study of poetry knows that the hymns of Orpheus are all very short, and that the total number of them is not great. The Lycomidae know them and chant them over the ritual of the mysteries. For poetic beauty they may be said to come next to the hymns of Homer, while they have been even more honored by the gods.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
EDESSA (Ancient city) PELLA
The Macedonians say that Caranus, king of Macedonia, overcame in battle
Cisseus, a chieftain in a bordering country. For his victory Caranus set up a
trophy after the Argive fashion, but it is said to have been upset by a lion from
Olympus, which then vanished. Caranus, they assert, realized that it was a mistaken
policy to incur the undying hatred of the non-Greeks dwelling around, and so,
they say, the rule was adopted that no king of Macedonia, neither Caranus himself
nor any of his successors, should set up trophies, if they were ever to gain the
good-will of their neighbors. This story is confirmed by the fact that Alexander
set up no trophies, neither for his victory over Dareius nor for those he won
in India.
AFYTIS (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
In Pallene besieged by Lysander, people of A. revere Ammon.
AGION OROS (Mountain) HALKIDIKI
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
In Chalcidice, on the isthmus of Mt. Athos, one of Xerxes' chief halting-places on his march.
ALIAKMON (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
AMFIPOLIS (Ancient city) SERRES
Battle at, expedition of Cleon to.
ANTHEMOUS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Macedonia.
ANTHEMOUS (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
A town in Macedonia.
ARGILOS (Ancient city) SERRES
A town west of the Strymon.
ASSA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
AXIOS (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
DION (Ancient city) PIERIA
City of Macedonia.
DRAVISKOS (Ancient city) SERRES
Town in Thrace (Paus. 1,29,4).
EGES (Ancient city) IMATHIA
City of Macedonia.
EGIS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Α town in Pallene.
ENIA (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Α town on the Thermaic gulf.
FAGRIS (Ancient city) SERRES
Α Pierian fort in Thrace, Xerxes' route past it.
GALIPSOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the promontory of Sithonia, in Chalcidice.
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Α town in Chalcidice.
HALKIDIKI (Ancient area) GREECE
Most towns of Ch. taken by Agesipolis.
KASSANDRA (Peninsula) HALKIDIKI
In Thrace, giants born at.
LIPAXOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Chalcidice.
LISAE (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
LIVITHRES (Ancient city) PIERIA
City of Macedonia, destroyed by flood.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
A town on the promontory of Pallene in Chalcidice, people of M. dedicate statue at Olympia.
MIKYVERNA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Sithonian promontory of Chalcidice.
OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Ιn Chalcidice, besieged and taken by Artabazus, attacked by Lacedaemonians under Agesipolis.
PELLA (Ancient city) GIANNITSA
A town in Macedonia.
PILOROS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Pallene, besieged by Artabazus but not taken, Potidaeans in Pausanias' army, Potidaeans fight at Plataea, they are twice banished, afterwards restored by Cassander, afterwards called Cassandrea, treasury of Potidaeans at Delphi.
New name for Potidaea, tyranny of Apollodorus at.
SARTI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf W. of Athos.
SERMYLI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
SINDOS (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
A town on the Thermaic gulf, on Xerxes' route.
SINGOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
SIRIS (Ancient city) SERRES
A town in Paeonia, disabled Persians left there by Xerxes.
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
The central peninsula of Chalcidice.
SKIONI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the promontory of Pallene, in the local confederacy.
SMILA (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
A town on the Thermaic gulf.
TORONI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Chalcidice, on the Sithonian peninsula, Herakles at.
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Here, too, is to be seen a canal, in the neighborhood of Acanthus, where Xerxes dug a canal across Athos, it is said, and, by admitting the sea into the canal, brought his fleet across from the Strymonic Gulf through the isthmus. Demetrius of Scepsis, however, does not believe that this canal was navigable, for, he says, although as far as ten stadia the ground is deep-soiled and can be dug, and in fact a canal one plethrum in width has been dug, yet after that it is a flat rock, almost a stadium in length, which is too high and broad to admit of being quarried out through the whole of the distance as far as the sea; but even if it were dug thus far, certainly it could not be dug deep enough to make a navigable passage; this, he adds, is where Alexarchus, the son of Antipater,163 laid the foundation of Uranopolis, with its circuit of thirty stadia.
AMFIPOLIS (Ancient city) SERRES
Then come the Strymon and the inland voyage of twenty stadia to Amphipolis. Amphipolis was founded by the Athenians and is situated in that place which is called Ennea Hodoi
AMYDON (Ancient city) KILKIS
In the time of Strabo, Abydon was a deserted village, which was called Avydon, near the Axius river and was destroyed by the Argeadae (Strab. 7, fr. 20 & 20a).
EDESSA (Ancient city) PELLA
From Pylon the road runs to Barnus through Heracleia and the country of the Lyncestae and that of the Eordi into Edessa and Pella and as far as Thessaloniceia; and the length of this road in miles, according to Polybius, is two hundred and sixty-seven.
EVIA (Ancient city) PELLA
When the Euboeans were returning from Troy, some of them, after being driven out of their course to Illyria, set out for home through Macedonia, but remained in the neighborhood of Edessa, after aiding in war those who had received them hospitably; and they founded a city Euboe.
IDOMENI (Ancient city) KILKIS
Polybius states that the distance from Maleae towards the north as far as the Ister is about ten thousand stadia, but Artemidorus corrects the statement in an appropriate manner by saying that from Maleae to Aegium is a journey of fourteen hundred stadia, and thence to Cyrrha a voyage of two hundred, and thence through Heracleia to Thaumaci a journey of five hundred, and then to Larisa and the Peneius three hundred and forty, and then through Tempe to the outlets of the Peneius two hundred and forty, and then to Thessaloniceia six hundred and sixty, and thence through Eidomene and Stobi and Dardanii to the Ister three thousand two hundred.
IMATHIA (Ancient area) GREECE
What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of its early chieftains. And there was also a city Emathia close to the sea.
KISSOS (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Among those included in the settlement were Apollonia, Chalastra, Therma, Garescus, Aenea, and Cissus; and of these one might suspect that Cissus belonged to Cisses, whom the poet mentions in speaking of Iphidamas, whom Cisses reared.
OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of its early chieftains. And there was also a city Emathia close to the sea. Now a part of this country was taken and held by certain of the Epeirotes and the Illyrians, but most of it by the Bottiaei and the Thracians. The Bottiaei came from Brete originally, so it is said, along with Botton as chieftain. As for the Thracians, the Pieres inhabited Pieria and the region about Olympus; the Paeones, the region on both sides of the Axius River, which on that account is called Amphaxitis; the Edoni and Bisaltae, the rest of the country as far as the Strymon. Of these two peoples the latter are called Bisaltae alone, whereas a part of the Edoni are called Mygdones, a part Edones, and a part Sithones. But of all these tribes the Argeadae, as they are called, established themselves as masters, and also the Chalcidians of Euboea; for the Chalcidians of Euboea also came over to the country of the Sithones and jointly peopled about thirty cities in it, although later on the majority of them were ejected and came together into one city, Olynthus; and they were named the Thracian Chalcidians.(Stabo 7.11)
Olynthus was seventy stadia distant from Potidaea.(Strabo 7.28)
The naval station of Olynthus is Macyperna, on the Toronaean Gulf.(Strabo 7.29)
Commentary: Argeadae = The name appears to have been derived from the Macedonian Argos, i.e., Argos Oresticum
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited May 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
OURANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) AGION OROS
Demetrius of Scepsis, however, does not believe that this canal was navigable, for, he says, although as far as ten stadia the ground is deep soiled and can be dug, and in fact a canal one plethrum in width has been dug, yet after that it is a flat rock, almost a stadium in length, which is too high and broad to admit of being quarried out through the whole of the distance as far as the sea; but even if it were dug thus far, certainly it could not be dug deep enough to make a navigable passage; this, he adds, is where Alexarchus, the son of Antipater, laid the foundation of Uranopolis, with its circuit of thirty stadia.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
After Thessaloniceia come the remaining parts of the Thermaean Gulf
as far as Canastraeum; this is a headland which forms a peninsula and rises opposite
to Magnetis. The name of the peninsula is Pallene; and it has an isthmus five
stadia in width, through which a canal is cut. On the isthmus is situated a city
founded by the Corinthians, which in earlier times was called Potidaea, although
later on it was called Cassandreia, after the same King Cassander, who restored
it after it had been destroyed. The distance by sea around this peninsula is five
hundred and seventy stadia. And further, writers say that in earlier times the
giants lived here and that the country was named Phlegra; the stories of some
are mythical, but the account of others is more plausible, for they tell of a
certain barbarous and impious tribe which occupied the place but was broken up
by Heracles when, after capturing Troy, be sailed back to his home-land. And here,
too, the Trojan women were guilty of their crime, it is said, when they set the
ships on fire in order that they might not be slaves to the wives of their captors
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Mar 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
SANI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
It (Pallene) has four cities, Aphytis, Mende, Scione, Sane.
SINGOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Derrhis is a headland that rises opposite to Canastraeum and forms the gulf; and directly opposite Berrhis, towards the east, are the capes of Athos; and between is the Singitic Gulf, which is named after Singus, the ancient city that was on it, now in ruins.
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
The Chalcidians of Euboea also came over to the country of the Sithones and jointly (with the Argeadae) peopled about thirty cities in it, although later on the majority of them were ejected and came together into one city, Olynthus; and they were named the Thracian Chalcidians
VERGI (Ancient city) SERRES
If one goes up the Strymon, one comes to Berge; it, too, is situated in the country of the Bisaltae, and is a village about two hundred stadia distant from Amphipolis.
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
The same summer, without loss of time, Brasidas marched with the Chalcidians against Acanthus, a colony of the Andrians, a little before vintage.
ESSYMI (Ancient city) SERRES
Myrcinus, an Edonian town, also came over to him; the Edonian king Pittacus having been killed by the sons of Goaxis and his own wife Brauro; and Galepsus and Oesime, which are Thasian colonies, not long after followed its example.
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Advancing by short marches, on the third day they arrived at Gigonus, where they encamped.
IDOMENI (Ancient city) KILKIS
Advancing from Doberus, the Thracian host first invaded what had been once Philip's government, and took Idomene by assault, Gortynia, Atalanta, and some other places by negotiation, these last coming over for love of Philip's son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
Meanwhile Mende revolted, a town in Pallene and a colony of the Eretrians, and was received without scruple by Brasidas, in spite of its having evidently come over during the armistice, on account of certain infringements of the truce alleged by him against the Athenians.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
STAGIRA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Not long after (the revolt of Acantians), Stagirus, a colony of the Andrians, followed their example and revolted (from Athens).
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