Galepsos (Chalkidike)

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Galepsos ( Greek Γαληψός, also Gale ) was an ancient city ​​on the west coast of the Sithonia peninsula in Greece , which was part of Chalkidike .

The exact location of Galepsos on the Sithonia is not known. Fragments from classical times suggest that the ancient city was located near today's Neos Marmaras .

Galepsos is mentioned for the first time by Herodotus for the year 480 BC. In his description of the Persian Wars . In it, Galepsos is counted among the places that had to provide troops to the fleet under Xerxes I , which followed parallel to the Persian army . After the Persian Wars, the city probably belonged to the Attic League , whose tribute lists from 421 BC. The inhabitants as Γαλαΐοι, Galaier, refer to. At the beginning of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC Galepsos stepped out of the alliance together with Potidaia and other Chalcidian cities. The now threatened armed conflict with Athens escaped the majority of the population by moving to Olynth . After the Peloponnesian War, the otherwise brief mentions of Galepsos end.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Zahrnt, p. 178
  2. ↑ Herodotus 7:122
  3. ^ ATL

literature

  • Michael Zahrnt : Olynthos and the Chalkidians. Studies on the formation of states on the Chalcidian Peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. Vestigia . Vol. 14. Beck, Munich 1971. pp. 178-9 ISBN 3-406-03097-1