Arsinoe (Crete)
Arsinoe (
The city was named after
Roger S. Bagnall notes that this may be the same Arsinoe that appears as a Cretan city in a Magnesian inscription (I. Magn. 21 8) of 200 BCE.[6] Bagnall says that the city of Rithymna reverted to its original name by the time of the Delphic Theorodoktoi lists of the early 2nd century BCE.
There remains a possibility of another place being the Arsinoe in Crete as per the testimony of Stephanus of Byzantium, noted in Le Rider's article. Getzel M. Cohen suggests some other possible locations.[7]
References
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ISBN 0520914082p132
- ISBN 90-04-04490-6
- ^ Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 304.
- ^ Georges Le Rider, Les Arsinoeens De Crete, pp 229–240 in Essays In Greek Coinage Presented To Stanley Robinson, Ed. by: Colin Mackennal Kraay & George Francis Jenkins, Oxford, UK (1968)
- ^ The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt By Roger S. Bagnall, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Belgium (1976)
- ISBN 0520914082p132
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Arsinoe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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