Potidaea
Potidaea (
History
While besieged by the
During the time of the Delian League, conflicts occurred between Athens and Corinth. However, the Corinthians still sent a supreme magistrate each year. Potidaea was inevitably involved in all of the conflicts between Athens and Corinth. The people revolted against the Athenians in 432 BC, and it was besieged at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War and taken in the Battle of Potidaea in 430 BC.[6]
The Athenians retook the city in 363 BC, but in 356 BC Potidaea fell into the hands of Philip II of Macedon. Potidaea was destroyed and its territory handed to the Olynthians. Cassander built a city on the same site which was named Cassandreia. It was probably at this time that the canal, which still exists today, was dug through the sandy soil at the narrowest part of the isthmus, perhaps with the aim of making the city a naval base. In 43 BC a Roman colony was settled by the proconsul of Macedonia, which in 30 BC was resettled by Octavian (the future Augustus) and took the official name Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis.[7]
Modern legacy
The modern settlement of Nea Poteidaia, built for refugees from Asia Minor after the First World War, is situated near this ancient site.
In popular culture, the fictional character
See also
- Delian League
- Peloponnesian Wars
- List of ancient Greek cities
References
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ POTEIDAIA (Nea Poteidaia) Chalkidike, Greece, entry in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.
- JSTOR 642332.
- ^ Herodotus, The Histories, 8.129
- ^ Mathes-Schmidt, Margret; et al. (2013). "Geochemical and micropaleontological investigations of tsunamigenic eochemical and micropaleontological investigations of tsunamigenic layers along the Thracian Coast (Northern Aegean Sea, Greece) ayers along the Thracian Coast (Northern Aegean Sea, Greece)". Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie. 57 (Suppl. 4): 5–27.
- ^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cassandreia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Samsaris, D. (1987). "La colonie romaine de Cassandréa en Macédoine. Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis" [The Roman Colony of Cassandreia in Macedonia (Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis)]. Dodona (in French). 16 (1): 353–362.