Skepticism (troas)
Skepticism ( Greek Σκήψις ) was an ancient Greek polis of aeolians , located in the upper valley of the Scamander in the Anatolian landscape Troas , in today's Turkish province of Canakkale near the town Bayramiç . Today Kurşunlu is located near the ruins of the city.
history
According to Strabon's tradition , Palai-Skepticism (Old Skepticism) was a city of the mythical tribe of the Dardans , located on Mount Ida . At the instigation of Skamandrios , son of Hector , and Askanios , son of Aeneas , the population was transferred to a new foundation sixty stadia away, which from then on became their permanent settlement area. Among the descendants of Scamander and Askanios, skepticism was ruled oligarchically until the city finally adopted a democratic constitution under the influence of Miletus .
A letter from Antigonos Monophthalmos to the skeptics from the year 311 BC. Their political autonomy at that time can be derived from their political autonomy at that time (about the " Diadochic Peace "), but only a short time later (probably 310 BC) Antigonos undertook a forced resettlement of the population in his nearby new foundation "Antigoneia". The skeptics were supposed to form the new city population here with the residents of Kebrene , who were also forcibly resettled and with whom they were traditionally enemies. After the end of Antigonus at the Battle of Ipsos in 301 BC. BC the Troas fell under the rule of Lysimachus . This allowed the skeptics to return to their city, while the Kebrenes should remain in "Antigoneia", which has now been renamed Alexandria Troas .
Neleus , a friend and student of Aristotle and Theophrastus , had acquired their written legacy and allegedly had them stored in a vaulted cellar in order to hide them from the Attalids . Most of it was neglected by his descendants and was therefore lost. Only in the first century BC A small part of the scriptures were bought up and returned to Athens .
Skepticism was still inhabited until the Byzantine era.
Personalities
- Neleus of Skepticism , 4th Century BC BC, pupil of Aristotle and Theophrast
- Demetrios von Skeptis , ancient geographer in the 2nd century BC. And source for Strabo
swell
- Strabon, Geographika 13, 1, 33; 52 and 54.
- Plutarch , Sulla 26, 2.
literature
- Elmar Schwertheim : Skepticism. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 611.
Remarks
- ^ J. Arthur R. Munro: A Letter from Antigonus to Scepsis, 311 BC In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 19 (1899), pp. 330-340 ( digitized version ) = Wilhelm Dittenberger , Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS), No. 5 ( digitized version ; PHI Greek Inscriptions ).
Coordinates: 39 ° 51 ′ 10 ″ N , 26 ° 48 ′ 13 ″ E