Stagira
Stagira ( Greek τὰ Στάγειρα ta Stágira or Στάγιρα ; originally ἡ Στάγιρος he Stágiros ) was an ancient city on the east coast of the Chalkidiki peninsula . Their remains are on the southeastern edge of today's place Olymbiada ( Aristotelis municipality ) on the Liotopi peninsula protruding into the Strymonian Gulf .
The city was founded around 655 BC. By Ionic settlers from Andros . The city entered after the Persian Wars , in which they 480 BC. Was conquered by Xerxes I , the Attic League at. In the Peloponnesian War she was therefore initially one of Athens' allies , but in 424 BC. The citizens decided under the impression of the successes of the Spartan general Brasidas to convert to the opposing side. The Athenian general tried in vain to take Kleon Stagiros. In the Peace of Nicias (421 BC) the city was declared independent, but Athens made tribute payments. Later Stagiros became a member of the Chalcidian League.
When the Macedonian king Philip II undertook a campaign against the Chalcidian cities in 349, he conquered and destroyed a fortified place which the historian Diodor Geira or Zeira calls; presumably it is a typo in the handwritten tradition, Diodor probably meant Stag (e) ira. The capture and destruction of the city is also otherwise documented.
Stagiros was the hometown of the philosopher Aristotle , who lived there in 384 BC. Was born in BC. Because of his origins, Aristotle was given the nickname "the Stagirit", which is still used in literature today. He is said to have caused Philip or his son Alexander the Great , whose teacher he was temporarily, to rebuild the city.
The same name, today's place Stagira ⊙ is about eight kilometers southwest of it inland south of the mountain Stratonikio.
The ancient city was the inspiration for the naming of the newly created community Stagira-Akanthos (Dimos Stagiron-Akanthou, Δήμος Σταγίρων-Ακάνθου).
Web links
Ancient Stagira on the side of the municipality of Aristotelis . Retrieved March 15, 2019
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. Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-03097-1 , pp. 238-243.
Coordinates: 40 ° 35 ′ 27 ″ N , 23 ° 47 ′ 39 ″ E