Bromiskos

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Bromiskos ( ancient Greek Βρομίσκος ) or Bormiskos ( ancient Greek Βορμίσκος ) was an ancient Greek city. It was located in Mygdonia in the Aulon Valley (now Rentina Valley ) on the Richeios , the river that flows from Lake Bolbe into the Strymonian Gulf . It was north of modern Stavros . The exact location is not known.

In the winter of 424/3 Brasidas came here with his army on the way to Amphipolis and camped here briefly. After dinner he moved on that night. Bromiskus paid 422/421 BC. Tribute to Athens . It is very likely that she took part in the appraisal of Kleon in 425 BC. Part. Stephanos of Byzantium reports that Euripides was killed and mangled in the city by Molossian dogs . He is said to have been buried in the neighboring town of Arethusa . Arethusa is sometimes identified with Bromiskus, but this is not mandatory.

Bromiskos could correspond to the present day Rentina village .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War 4.104.
  2. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae , Volume I³, Number 77.
  3. ^ Robert Malcolm Errington : History of Macedonia. From the beginning to the fall of the kingdom. Beck, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-406-31412-0 , p. 30.
  4. ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika sv Βορμίσκος .
  5. ↑ E.g. by Gustav Hirschfeld : Arethusa 8 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 679 f.
  6. ↑ Eugen Oberhummer : Bromiskos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 889.

Coordinates: 40 ° 41 ′  N , 23 ° 41 ′  E