Chaonia
| Chaonia (Χαονία) | |
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Chaonia or Chaon (
Molossia and Thesprotia.[3]
Chaonia traditionally stretched between the
eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.[5]
Name
According to mythology, the
Argolis, χάος 'chaos, space, abyss', χάσκω 'to yawn', χάσμα 'chasm, gorge'.[6]
Geography
River Thyamis in the south. The Roman historian, Appian, mentions Chaonia as the southern border in his description and geography of Illyria.[8]
Important cities in Chaonia included
.Mythology
In Vigil's Aeneid, Aeneas visits Chaonia and meets
Helenus. He is told he must continue on to Italy, and instructed to meet the Sibyl concerning a more specific prophecy as to Aeneas's destiny.[9]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Errington, Malcolm. A History of Macedonia. University of California Press, 1990.
- ^ The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol. 6, the Fourth Century BC.
- ^ Chapinal-Heras 2021, p. 20.
- ^ Chapinal-Heras 2021, p. 21.
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid, 3.
- ISBN 978-953-51-7261-1.
- ^ Strabo. The Geography. Book VII, Chapter 7.5 (LacusCurtis).
- ^ Appian. The Foreign Wars, III.1 (ed. Horace White).
- ISBN 0-679-41335-9.
Bibliography
- Chapinal-Heras, Diego (2021). Experiencing Dodona: The Development of the Epirote Sanctuary from Archaic to Hellenistic Times. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110727593.
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