Selymbria

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Selymbria (

European Turkey.[8][9]

Secular history

According to Strabo, its name signifies "the town of Selys;"[3] from which it has been inferred that Selys was the name of its founder, or of the leader of the colony from Megara, which founded it at an earlier period than the establishment of Byzantium, another colony of the same Greek city-state.[10] In honour of Eudoxia, the wife of the emperor Arcadius, its name was changed to Eudoxiopolis or Eudoxioupolis (Εὐδοξιούπολις),[11] which it bore for a considerable time. It was still its official name in the seventh century, but the modern name shows that it subsequently resumed its original designation.[12]

Respecting the history of Selymbria, only detached and fragmentary notices occur in the Greek writers. In Latin authors, it is merely named;

Athenians in the Propontis (410 BCE), the people of Selymbria refused to admit his army into the town, but gave him money, probably in order to induce him to abstain from forcing an entrance.[18] Some time after this, however, he gained possession of the place through the treachery of some of the townspeople, and, having levied a contribution upon its inhabitants, left a garrison in it.[19] Selymbria is mentioned by Demosthenes in 351 BCE, as in alliance with the Athenians;[1] and it was no doubt at that time a member of the Byzantine confederacy. According to a letter of Philip II of Macedon, quoted in the oration de Corona,[20] it was blockaded by him about 343 BCE; but others consider that this mention of Selymbria is one of the numerous proofs that the documents inserted in that speech are not authentic.[21]

Polyidos (Πολύιδος) of Selymbria won with a dithyramb a contest at Athens.[22]

Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae wrote that Cleisophus (Κλείσοφος) of Selymbria fell in love with a statue of Parian marble while he was at Samos.[23]

Works of Favorinus includes the "Letters of Selymbrians" (Σηλυμβρίων ἐπιστολαί).[24]

Selymbria had a small, but significant mint, researched by Edith Schönert-Geiß.[25]

Religious history

In Christian times, Selymbria was the seat of a bishop.

suffragan sees. The oldest known bishop is Theophilus, transferred from Apamea.[12]
Other known bishops include:

Under the Emperor

Palamites. Philotheus, who lived about 1365, was the author of the panegyric on Saint Agathonicus, a martyr who suffered at Selymbria under Maximian, and of the panegyric on Saint Macarius, a monk of Constantinople towards the end of the thirteenth century.[12] John Chortasmenos, who took the name Ignatius, served from 1431 to 1439.[28]

No longer a residential see, it remains a

Roman Catholic Church.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b Demosthenes, de Rhod. lib., p. 198, ed. Reiske.
  2. ^ Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 7.2.15.
  3. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii p. 319. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  4. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.11.6.
  5. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 6.33.
  6. Itin. Hier.
    p. 570, where it is called Salamembria.
  7. ^ Procopius, de Aed. 4.9.
  8. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
    .
  9. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  10. ^ Scymn. 714.
  11. ^ Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 632.
  12. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: S. Pétridès (1913). "Selymbria". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  13. ^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.2.6.
  14. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.11.18.
  15. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 29.1.1.
  16. ^ Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 7.2.28.
  17. ^ Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 5.15.
  18. ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 1.1.21.
  19. ^ Plutarch, Alc. 30; Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 3.10.
  20. ^ Demosthenes, de Corona, p. 251, ed Reiske.
  21. ^ See, e.g., Newman, Class. Mus. vol. i. pp. 153, 154.
  22. ^ Marmor Parium, Chronicle, 68.81b
  23. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.84
  24. ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers
  25. JSTOR 42666608
    .
  26. ^ a b Catholic Hierarchy
  27. ^ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus (Paris, 1740), Vol. 1, cols. 1137–1140.
  28. ISBN 0-19-504652-8
    .

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