Ambrakia
Ambrakia ( ancient Greek Ἀμβρακία ; up to the 4th century BC also Ἀμπρακία Amprakia ) was a city on the west coast of Greece in the Epiros region . Today the city of Arta is located there .
mythology
Ovid mentions the city in the course of the seafaring of Aeneas in the Metamorphoses and describes it as a 'city contested in the divine battle'.
This allusion is based on a story reported by the mythographer Antoninus Liberalis using older sources: Apollo , Artemis and Heracles quarrel about ownership or responsibility for the city and use the shepherd Kragaleos as judge. He pronounced the verdict in favor of Heracles, which is why Apollo turned him into a rock out of anger.
history
Around the middle of the 7th century BC The city was founded as a colony of Corinth and was under the rule of the Cypselids until its expulsion . The name is derived from the Ambrakos castle in the lagoon. In the 3rd century BC Ambrakia was made the capital of his empire by the Macedonian king Pyrrhos I and equipped with a royal palace. Traces of this heyday can still be found in excavations for new buildings and excavations. After several Roman conquests and occupations, it became part of the Roman Empire in 146 after the final subjugation of Greece .
literature
- Hardie, Philip (eds.): Ovidio, Metamorfosi. Bologna 2015, ISBN 978-8804651628 , p. 327.
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Ambrakia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1805-1807.
- Daniel Stauch: Ambrakia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume I, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996-2015, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 580 f.