Achilleion (Troad)
Ἀχίλλειον | |
Location | Yeniköy, Çanakkale Province, Turkey |
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Region | Troad |
Coordinates | 39°54′54″N 26°9′9″E / 39.91500°N 26.15250°E |
Type | Settlement |
Achilleion (
Tomb of Achilles and Patroclus
The otherwise obscure polis of Achilleion was most famous in classical antiquity for its association with Achilles, after whom it was named ('the place of Achilles'). According to some sources, while passing by Ilion in 334 BC Alexander the Great sacrificed at the Tomb of Achilles.[6] This story became famous, and in the mid-1st century BC it is mentioned by the politician and writer Cicero in his Pro Archia Poeta.[7] In AD 216 the Emperor Caracalla emulated Alexander when, on passing Ilion on his way to a war against Parthia, he held funeral games around the tumulus.[8] Following the abandonment of the settlement at Achilleion in the late Hellenistic period, writers began to associate the tomb with nearby Sigeion to the north.[9]
History
The first mention of Achilleion is as a fortified settlement from which
References
- ^ The spelling Ἀχιλλήιον (Achillēion) is found in Herodotus 5.94.2, reflecting his Ionic dialect.
- ^ John Manuel Cook (1973) 180-1, 185-6, Mitchell (2004).
- ^ Cook (1973) 185-6.
- ^ Cook (1973) 186, Korfmann (1988), Kosatz (1988).
- REI (1893) s.v. 'Achilleion (2-3)' col. 220.
- Anabasis Alexandri1.12.1. Arrian is here careful not to endorse this romanticizing story found in his sources: Brunt (1976) 51 n. 3.
- ^ Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta 24.
- Dio Cassius78.16.7.
- Naturalis Historia5.125.
- ^ Herodotus 5.94.2 (mid-5th century BC), Strabo 13.1.39, who quotes Timaeus FGrHist 566 F 129 (late 4th century BC) and Demetrius of Scepsis fr. 27 Gaede (mid-2nd century BC).
- ^ Cook (1973) 185. The fact that Aeolic 'grey' ware predominates is further proof that the site at Beşika Burnu is a Mytilenaen foundation rather than an Athenian one.
- ^ Schulz (2000) 11-12.
- ^ IG I3 71.III.137, IG I3 74.IV.23. In neither case does the amount for which it was assessed survive.
- Tenedian Peraia.
- ^ Cook (1973) 181.
- ^ Demetrius of Scepsis fr. 27 Gaede = Strabo 13.1.39.
- ^ Cook (1973) 185.
Bibliography
- O. Hirschfeld, REI (1893) s.v. 'Achilleion (1)' col. 220.
- J.M. Cook, The Troad (Oxford, 1973) 178–86.
- J. Brown, 'The Tomb of Achilles' in Homeric sites around Troy (Canberra, 2017) 227-249 (illustrated).
- P.A. Brunt, Arrian. Anabasis Alexanderi, books I-IV (Cambridge Mass., 1976).
- M. Korfmann, 'Beşik-Tepe. Vorbericht über die Ergebnisse der Granungen von 1985 und 1986' Archäologische Anzeiger (1988) 391–8.
- A.U. Kossatz, 'Beşik-Tepe 1985 und 1986; zur archaischen Keramik vom Beşik-Tepe' Archäologische Anzeiger (1988) 398–404.
- A. Schulz, Die Stadtmauer von Neandreia in der Troas. Asia Minor Studien 38 (Bonn, 2000).
- C. Carusi, Isole e Peree in Asia Minore (Pisa, 2003) 41–2.
- S. Mitchell, 'Achilleion' in M.H. Hansen and T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford, 2004) no. 766.