Alyzeia
Alyzeia ( ancient Greek Ἀλύζεια , Ἀλυζια ) was an ancient Greek city. It was located on a low hill in the Akarnania region of western Greece , near the modern city of Kandila , which until 2010 was the parish of the former community of Alyzia .
According to Strabo , Alyzeia was 15 stadiums from the sea, where there was a port and a Heracles sanctuary. The sanctuary housed works by Lysipp showing the work of Heracles . A Roman general later moved the works of the now-abandoned temple to Rome . Cicero specified the distance between the island of Leukas and Alyzeia as 120 stadiums, which corresponds approximately to the current distance between the bay of Kandila and the island of Leukas.
The name of the city is said to have been derived from Alyzeus , the son of Icarus .
The city is mentioned for the first time in Thucydides . In 376/375 BC A sea battle took place nearby between the Athenians under Timotheus and the Lacedaemonians under Nikolochus , from which the Athenians emerged victorious. According to Xenophon , the Athenians are said to have built their tropaion in Alyzeia and the Lacedaemonians their on the nearby islands. Skylax reports that the island immediately opposite, now called Kalamos , was once called Carnus .
Personalities
- Aristomenes of Alyzeia (around 200 BC, politician of the Ptolemaic Empire )
literature
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Alyzeia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1712.
- William Smith : Alyzia . In: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . tape 1 . Boston 1854, p. 113 .
Remarks
- ^ Strabo, Geography 10, 2, 2 p. 450 and 10, 2, 21 p. 459; Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 4, 5; Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 16, 2.
- ^ Strabo, Geography 10, p. 452; Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika s. Alyzeia .
- ↑ Thucydides 7:31.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika 5, 4, 65f .; Diodor , Bibliotheke historike 15, 36, 5; Polyainos , Strategika 3, 10, 4 and 3, 10, 12.
- ↑ Skylax, p. 13.
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ 33.4 ″ N , 20 ° 57 ′ 8 ″ E