Sestos
Sestos was an ancient city on the Thracian Chersonese (today Gelibolu Peninsula ) on the northern bank of the Hellesponts ( Dardanelles ) in what is now European Turkey .
Sestos was east of today's town of Eceabat , across from Abydos , which was on the Asian bank of the Hellespont. Between the two places was 480 BC. Chr. Xerxes , the Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges for his campaign against Greece build. Alexander the Great set 334 BC. BC with his army to Asia. The originally Thracian Sestos has been in existence since around 600 BC. Colonized by Greek colonists from Lesbos . It belonged to since 478 BC To the Delisch-Attic Sea League and changed in the 4th century BC. Several times the rule. For Athens in particular , it was of great importance for securing grain transports from the Black Sea.
In Greek mythology, Hero and Leander are from Sestos and Abydos, respectively. With Homer it belongs to the Trojan domain.
literature
- Christo Danoff : Sestos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 149.
- Johannes Krauss: The inscriptions of Sestus and the Thracian Chersonese. Habelt, Bonn, 1980 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , Vol. 19), ISBN 3-7749-1750-7 .
- Theodora Stillwell MacKay: Sestos, Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Coordinates: 40 ° 13 ' N , 26 ° 23' E