Thebe Hypoplakia

Coordinates: 39°35′51″N 27°01′13″E / 39.597431°N 27.020171°E / 39.597431; 27.020171
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Thebe Hypoplakia (

romanized: Plakía Thḗbē), was a city in ancient Anatolia
. Alternative names include Placia, Hypoplacia and Hypoplacian Thebe(s), referring to the city's position at the foot of Mount Placus. Near the local village "Tepeoba".

Geography

Strabo places it at 60 stadia from Adramyttium.[1] Pomponius Mela says it was between Adramyttium and Cisthene.[2] Josef Stauber places it in Paşa Dağ, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of Edremit, Balıkesir,[3] however in another previous publication he places it in Küçuk Çal Tepe.[4] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World settle on a site 1 mile (1.6 km) north-northeast of Edremit.[5][6]

Strabo places Thebes and Lyrnessus "in what was later called the Theban plain." He highlights the fertility and richness of this plain, as do Herodotus,[7] Xenophon,[8] Polybius,[9] and Livy.[10] Historians such as Walter Leaf have speculated on its location, but have not managed to identify the plain nor the city.[11] Strabo, without specifying the time, reports that, due to their fertility, the Theban plain was disputed by the Mysians and Lydians, and later the Greeks who colonized it coming from Aeolis and from the island of Lesbos. He adds that in his times, the second century, the plain was occupied by the people of Adramyttium.[1]

The place name differs according to some Greek authors: Ὑποπλάκιος Θήβη.[12] Θήβη,[13] Θήβαι,[14] Θήβα Πλακία,[15] and Θῆβε.[16]

The only mentions in the archaic and classical ages to Thebes as a polis (city-state), are connected with the Homeric tradition.[17][18] However, Quintus Curtius Rufus refers to Thebes as "urbs", retrospectively in the context of the fourth century BCE.[19]

History

plain of Thebe.[7]

In the 4th century BCE, Thebe minted coins in bronze on which the legends «ΘΗΒ» or «ΘΗΒΑ» appear.[20]

Mythology

According to one account, the city of Thebe was founded by the hero

concubine of Agamemnon. Chryseis's father attempts to ransom his daughter, initiating the plot of Homer's Iliad.[21] One of Achilles' horses, Pedasus, also came from Thebe.[22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 13.1.61. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 1.91.
  3. ^ Stauber (2004), pp. 46-47.
  4. ISBN 975-17-1725-6
    . Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  5. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
    .
  6. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  7. ^ a b Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.42.
  8. ^ Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8; Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 4.9.
  9. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 15.1, 31.10.
  10. Ab urbe condita Libri
    [History of Rome]. Vol. 38.19.
  11. ^ Walter Leaf, pp. 306-310.
  12. ^ Dicaearchus fr.53a, In: Fritz Wehrli, Dikaiarchos. Die Schule des Aristoteles. Texte und Kommentar, Hft. one. Schwabe. 2nd edition (1967) (in German)
  13. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 1.366.
  14. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 22.477.
  15. ^ Sappho fr.44.1.6
  16. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  17. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 1.366, 6.414-415.
  18. ^ Euripides, Andromache , 1
  19. ^ Quintus Curtius Rufus, "History of Alexander the Great" 3.4.10
  20. ISBN 0-19-814099-1
    .
  21. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 1.366-369.
  22. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 16.149.

References


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