Elaeus
Ἐλεοῦς | |
Thracian Chersonese | |
| Coordinates | 40°3′35″N 26°13′50″E / 40.05972°N 26.23056°E |
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| Type | Settlement |
| History | |
| Builder | Colonists from Teos |
Elaeus (
History
The most important cities of the Chersonese were
According to
The last resting place of the
During the
In 411 BCE, the Athenian squadron under
Alexander the Great is said to have visited Elaeus at the start of his Persian campaign in the spring of 334 BCE, in order to visit the temple of Protesilaus. Here he made an offering, before crossing the Dardanelles, and himself becoming the first of his army to set foot in Asia. In 200 BCE, Elaeus surrendered voluntarily to Philip V of Macedon.[9] but in 190 BCE the citizens made overtures to the Romans.[10]
Imperial coins were struck at Elaeus in the time of the Roman emperor
During the First World War, French and British troops temporarily occupied Cape Helles and Morto Bay. The French Army encountered ancient remains while digging trenches. Fortuitous excavations were thus undertook under fire;[14] operations were mainly supervised by Assyriologist Édouard Dhorme and exhumed artefacts were sent to the Louvre. French excavations resumed from 1920 to 1923.[15]
See also
References
- ^ Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, § 696
- ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora, 41
- ^ Homer, Iliad, vol. 2, Line 695
- ^ Herodotus, Histories, vol. 7, pp. 22–24
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Elaeus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 8.102.
- ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 2.1.20.
- ^ Inscriptiones Graecae II², 228, Retrieved on 4 January 2013.
- Ab urbe condita Libri[History of Rome]. Vol. 31.16.
- Ab urbe condita Libri[History of Rome]. Vol. 37.9.
- ^ Ancient coinage of Thrace, Retrieved on 4 January 2013.
- ^ Zosim. 2.23; Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. i. p. 216.
- ^ Procop. Aed. 4.16
- .
- ^ "Chronique des fouilles. Éléonte", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, no. 44, p. 411, 1920; "Chronique des fouilles. Éléonte", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, no. 45, p. 554, 1921; "Chronique des fouilles. Éléonte", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, no. 46, pp. 539–541, 1922; "Chronique des fouilles. Éléonte", Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, no. 47, pp. 541–542, 1923.
Sources
- Pseudo-Scymnus, Periodos to Nicomedes ("Periegesis") (in Ancient Greek), Line 707
- Procopius, "Ch. 10", Buildings of Justinian, vol. 4, Lines 3 and 26
- Herodotus, Histories, vol. 7, pp. 22–24 and 33
- Arrian, "11. Alexander Crosses the Hellespont and Visits Troy", The Campaigns of Alexander, vol. 1, archived from the original on 7 November 2015
- Hansen, M. H.; Nielsen, T. H.; et al. (2005), "Thracian Chersonesos", An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, Oxford University Press
- Freely, John (2004), The Western Shores of Turkey, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, p. 19
- Harding, Philipp (1985), "Section 94", From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus, Cambridge University Press, p. 118
- Danoff, Christo M. (1967), Elaius, )
- Instinsky, H. U. (1949), Alexander der Große am Hellespont (in German), Bad Godesberg: Helmut Küpper Verlag
- Choiseul-Gouffier (1842), Voyage pittoresque dans l'Empire Ottoman (in French), vol. 3 (2nd ed.), Paris, p. 373f
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