Molycreia or Molykreia (Ancient Greek: Μολύκρεια),[1] or Molycreium or Molykreion (Μολύκρειον),[2] or Molycria or Molykria (Μολυκρία),[3][4] was a town of Aetolia, situated near the sea-coast, and at a short distance from the promontory Antirrhium, which was hence called Ῥίον τὸ Μολυκρικόν,[5] or Μολύκριον Ῥίον.[6] Some writers call it a Locrian town. It is said by Strabo to have been built after the return of the Heracleidae into Peloponnesus. It was colonised by the Corinthians, but was subject to the Athenians in the early part of the Peloponnesian War. It was taken by the Spartan commander Eurylochus, with the assistance of the Aetolians, in 426 BCE. It was considered sacred to Poseidon.[7][8][9][3][4][10][11][12]
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Velvina/Elliniko.[13][14]
References edit
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. p.451. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.84.
- ^ a b Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 5.94.
- ^ a b Pausanias (1918). "31.6". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.86.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.336. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. pp. 451, 460. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 14; Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.84, 3.102.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 12.60.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.2.3.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.3.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s. v.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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