Troezen
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Troezen
Τροιζήνα | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 180 20 |
Area code(s) | 22980 |
Website | www.dimos-trizinas.gr |
Troezen (/ˈtriːzən/; ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα [tri'zina]) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia-Methana, of which it is a municipal unit. It is part of the Islands regional unit.[2] Population 4,668 (2021).
Troezen is located southwest of
Mythology
According to Greek mythology, Troezen came into being as a result of two ancient cities, Hyperea and Antheia, being unified by Pittheus, who named the new city in honor of his deceased brother, Troezen.[4]
Troezen was where
Troezen is the setting of Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus, which recounts the story of the eponymous son of Theseus who becomes the subject of the love of his stepmother, Phaedra. While fleeing the city, Hippolytus is killed when his chariot is attacked by a bull rising from the sea.[6] Other plays on the same subject have been written by Seneca and Jean Racine, which are also set in Troezen.
The ancient city had a spring that was supposedly formed where the winged horse Pegasus once came to ground.
History
A cult built up in the ancient city around the legend of Hippolytus. Troezen girls traditionally dedicated a lock of their hair to him before their marriage.
Sybaris in Magna Graecia was a Troezenian colony (founded 720 BC).[7]
Before the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), Athenian women and children were sent to Troezen for safety on the instructions of the Athenian statesman Themistocles. In 1959, a stele was found in a coffee house in Troezen, depicting the Decree of Themistocles, the order to evacuate Athens. The stele has since been dated to some 200 years after the Battle of Salamis, indicating that it is probably a commemorative copy of the original order.
The temple of
In the
References
- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 30. 9
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 15. 7
- ^ This story provided the title of Mary Renault's historical novel The Bull from the Sea.
- ^ "Sybaris | ancient city, Italy".
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Τροιζήν.
- ^ Gustav Hirschfeld: Apollonia 12.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. II,1, Stuttgart 1895, col. 115.