Ennea Hodoi

Ennea Hodoi (also Enneahodoi, Greek feminine Ἐννέα ὁδοί = nine ways) is an ancient Greek settlement and area in Thrace , where 437 BC Amphipolis was founded by the Athenians .

The inhabitants of Ennea Hodoi controlled the valley of the Strymon at a strategically important point. This is where the connecting road from Thrace to Macedonia ran , the later Roman Via Egnatia , which crossed the river on a bridge 4½ km before the mouth of the river. In the area there was the forest needed for shipbuilding, in the nearby Pangaion mountain range there were extensive gold and silver mines.

In Ennea Hodoi Xerxes I crossed 480 BC. BC the Strymon on his campaign against Athens and Sparta and made a sacrifice to the river and the place.

Individual evidence

↑ Thucydides 1.100: ἐπὶ .DELTA..di-elect cons Στρυμόνα πέμψαντες μυρίους οἰκήτορας αὑτῶν καὶ τῶν ξυμμάχων ὑπὸ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους ὡς οἰκιοῦντες τὰς τότε καλουμένας Ἐννέα ὁδούς , νῦν δὲ Ἀμφίπολιν, τῶν μὲν Ἐννέα ὁδῶν αὐτοὶ ἐκράτησαν, ἃς εἶχον Ἠδωνοί, προελθόντες δὲ τῆς Θρᾴκης ἐς μεσόγειαν διεφθάρησαν ἐν Δραβησκῷ τῇ Ἠδωνικῇ ὑπὸ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν ξυμπάντων, οἷς πολέμιον ἦν τὸ χωρίον [αἱ Ἐννέα ὁδοὶ ] κτιζόμενον [αἱ Ἐννέα ὁδοὶ ] κτιμενον = the Christians themselves. to colonize the then so-called Ennea Hodoi, now Amphipolis (called); They won the rule over Ennea Hodoi , which the Edoner owned, but advancing into the interior of Thrace they (the Athenians) were annihilated in the Edonian Drabeskos by the united Thracians, to whom the newly created place [in Ennea Hodoi ] was hostile. , ie: the first Athenian settlement of the place failed, 437 BC. Then succeeded.

↑ Herodotus 7,114: .DELTA..di-elect cons ταῦτα ἐς τὸν ποταμὸν φαρμακεύσαντες καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ πρὸς τούτοισι ἐν Ἐννέα ὁδοῖσι τῇσι Ἠδωνῶν ἐπορεύοντο κατὰ τὰς γεφύρας, τὸν Στρυμόνα εὑρόντες ἐζευγμένον. Ἐννέα .DELTA..di-elect cons ὁδοὺς πυνθανόμενοι τὸν χῶρον τοῦτον καλέεσθαι, τοσούτους ἐν αὐτῷ παῖδάς τε καὶ παρθένους ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ζώοντας κατώρυσσον = After they (the Persians) this (horse sacrifice) and many others had applied for the river as a charm, they crossed in Ennea Hodoi , in Edonerland, on bridges (the river) after finding the bridged river. When they found out that the place was called Ennea Hodoi , they buried as many (9) boys and (9) virgins of the local people alive there.

[1] Thucydides 1.100: ἐπὶ .DELTA..di-elect cons Στρυμόνα πέμψαντες μυρίους οἰκήτορας αὑτῶν καὶ τῶν ξυμμάχων ὑπὸ τοὺς αὐτοὺς χρόνους ὡς οἰκιοῦντες τὰς τότε καλουμένας Ἐννέα ὁδούς , νῦν δὲ Ἀμφίπολιν, τῶν μὲν Ἐννέα ὁδῶν αὐτοὶ ἐκράτησαν, ἃς εἶχον Ἠδωνοί, προελθόντες δὲ τῆς Θρᾴκης ἐς μεσόγειαν διεφθάρησαν ἐν Δραβησκῷ τῇ Ἠδωνικῇ ὑπὸ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν ξυμπάντων, οἷς πολέμιον ἦν τὸ χωρίον [αἱ Ἐννέα ὁδοὶ ] κτιζόμενον [αἱ Ἐννέα ὁδοὶ ] κτιμενον = the Christians themselves. to colonize the then so-called Ennea Hodoi, now Amphipolis (called); They won the rule over Ennea Hodoi , which the Edoner owned, but advancing into the interior of Thrace they (the Athenians) were annihilated in the Edonian Drabeskos by the united Thracians, to whom the newly created place [in Ennea Hodoi ] was hostile. , ie: the first Athenian settlement of the place failed, 437 BC. Then succeeded.

[2] Herodotus 7,114: .DELTA..di-elect cons ταῦτα ἐς τὸν ποταμὸν φαρμακεύσαντες καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ πρὸς τούτοισι ἐν Ἐννέα ὁδοῖσι τῇσι Ἠδωνῶν ἐπορεύοντο κατὰ τὰς γεφύρας, τὸν Στρυμόνα εὑρόντες ἐζευγμένον. Ἐννέα .DELTA..di-elect cons ὁδοὺς πυνθανόμενοι τὸν χῶρον τοῦτον καλέεσθαι, τοσούτους ἐν αὐτῷ παῖδάς τε καὶ παρθένους ἀνδρῶν τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ζώοντας κατώρυσσον = After they (the Persians) this (horse sacrifice) and many others had applied for the river as a charm, they crossed in Ennea Hodoi , in Edonerland, on bridges (the river) after finding the bridged river. When they found out that the place was called Ennea Hodoi , they buried as many (9) boys and (9) virgins of the local people alive there.