Galepsos (Thasitian Peraia)

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Bronze coin from Galepsos

Galepsos ( ancient Greek Γαληψός ) was a Greek port city in the Thasitian Peraia on the Strymonian Gulf . It was made in the 6th century BC. Founded as a colony of the city of Thasos . The city was 3 km east of the modern town Kariani on an area that today Gaidurokastro ( Modern Greek Γαϊδουρόκαστρο = Eselsburg is called) at the western end of the Symvolo Mountains. The modern place Galipsos was named after her.

According to the tradition of the ancient writer Strabo , Galepsos was between Phagres and Apollonia . In the 5th century BC The city was a member of the Attic League . It paid an annual tribute of up to 9,000 drachmas , but this later dropped to 1,000 drachmas. In the winter of 424 BC Galepsos revolted against Athens and joined Sparta under Brasidas . Almost two years later, in the summer of 422 BC. BC, the Athenian general Kleon recaptured the city. From 411 BC Until the middle of the 4th century BC Galepsos minted his own coins. Among other things, the head of Dionysus and the front of a goat were struck on the coins . 356 BC The port city was destroyed by King Philip II of Macedonia. It was later rebuilt. After the lost battle of Pydna , the Macedonian king Perseus fled by ship to Samothrace and made on June 23, 168 BC. A stopover in Galepsos. The city existed until early Christian times.

Landmarks of the Demeter sanctuary

According to mythological tradition, it was the hero Galepsos, the son of Thasos and Telephe , who founded the city and named it after himself (see also eponymous hero ). Most of the excavations found graves. In addition, two boundary stones of the Demeter sanctuary were found , the inscription of which indicates that a hecatompedon , a temple 100 feet long, stood in the sanctuary .

literature

  • Michael Zahrnt : Galepsos. In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 229.

Web links

Commons : Galepsos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strabon, Geographika 7, fragment 41 (p. 331).
  2. ↑ Strabon, Geographika 7, fragment 33 (p. 331).
  3. ↑ Thucydides , The Peloponnesian War 4,107.
  4. ↑ Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 5,6.
  5. ↑ Strabon, Geographika 7, fragment 35 (p. 331).
  6. ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika sv Γαληψός .

Coordinates: 40 ° 44 '  N , 24 ° 1'  E