Potidaeaancient city, Greece
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history of ancient Greece
( in ancient Greek civilization: Causes )
...than Sparta itself) and other smaller states with Athenian connections. The two “causes” that occupy the relevant parts of Thucydides’ first, introductory book concern Corcyra and Potidaea. (Thucydides does not let his readers entirely lose sight of two other causes much discussed at the time—the Megarian decrees and the complaints of Aegina about its loss of autonomy....
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Alcibiades and Socrates
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...however, impressed by the moral strength and the keen mind of the philosopher Socrates, who, in turn, was strongly attracted by Alcibiades’ beauty and intellectual promise. They served together at Potidaea (432) in the Chalcidice region, where Alcibiades was defended by Socrates when he was wounded, a debt that he repaid when he stayed to protect Socrates in the flight from the Battle of...
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Kassándra
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...It is a part of the nomós (department) of Khalkidhikí. Upon the narrow isthmus that links Kassándra with Chalcidice stand the sparse ruins of the Corinthian colony of Potidaea, a port founded about 600 bc; its site is the village of Néa Potídhaia just south of the ship canal that was cut through the isthmus in 1937.
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history of ancient Greece ancient Greek civilization
...than Sparta itself) and other smaller states with Athenian connections. The two “causes” that occupy the relevant parts of Thucydides’ first, introductory book concern Corcyra and Potidaea. (Thucydides does not let his readers entirely lose sight of two other causes much discussed at the time—the Megarian decrees and the complaints of Aegina about its loss of...
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Alcibiades and Socrates Alcibiades
...however, impressed by the moral strength and the keen mind of the philosopher Socrates, who, in turn, was strongly attracted by Alcibiades’ beauty and intellectual promise. They served together at Potidaea (432) in the Chalcidice region, where Alcibiades was defended by Socrates when he was wounded, a debt that he repaid when he stayed to protect Socrates in the flight from the Battle of...
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Kassándra Kassándra
...It is a part of the nomós (department) of Khalkidhikí. Upon the narrow isthmus that links Kassándra with Chalcidice stand the sparse ruins of the Corinthian colony of Potidaea, a port founded about 600 bc; its site is the village of Néa Potídhaia just south of the ship canal that was cut through the isthmus in 1937.
promontory, westernmost of the three prongs of the Chalcidice Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece, projecting into the Aegean Sea. It is a part of the nomós (department) of Khalkidhikí. Upon the narrow isthmus that links Kassándra with Chalcidice stand the sparse ruins of the Corinthian colony of Potidaea, a port founded about 600 bc; its site is the village of Néa Potídhaia just south of the ship canal that was cut through the isthmus in 1937.
The classical history of Kassándra revolves around the communities of Olynthus and Potidaea. Settled by non-Greek Bottiaians in the 7th century bc, Olynthus was subdued by Sparta (382–379), which dissolved the Chalcidian League that it had dominated for a decade. In 357/356 Potidaea was so completely obliterated by Philip II of Macedon that the Athenian orator Demosthenes wrote that a visitor would not be able to identify the site. As a result of the Olynthian War (349–347) that destroyed Olynthus, Potidaea was revived as Kassandreia, which became very prosperous; in the Third Macedonian War (171–168) it repulsed a Roman fleet. In the early European Middle Ages it was destroyed by the Huns. Kassándra was occupied largely by cattle and sheep ranchers before the War of Greek Independence (1821–29), during which its inhabitants were massacred by the Turks for joining the revolt.
The Kassándra peninsula has great natural beauty and fine beaches and has become the most important tourist centre of northern Greece.
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part of Chalcidice Chalcidice
peninsula, northern Greece, and a nomós (department) terminating in (east–west) the three fingerlike promontories of Kassándra, Sithonía, and Áyion Óros (Mount Athos). The promontories were once islands, and their isthmuses consequently are composed of loose sediments through which the...
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role of Periander Periander
Periander was the son of Cypselus, the founder of the Cypselid dynasty of Corinth. To promote and protect Corinthian trade, Periander established colonies at Potidaea in Chalcidice and at Apollonia in Illyria. He conquered Epidaurus and annexed Corcyra. The diolkos (“portage way”) across the Isthmus of Corinth was perhaps built during his reign. It appears that the commercial...
brilliant Athenian admiral who won several engagements before and during the Peloponnesian War.
Phormion was one of the generals leading reinforcements to the Athenian siege of Samos in 440. He assisted the Acarnanians and Amphilochians against Ambracia, which resulted in an alliance with Acarnania that was useful to Athens. In 432–431 he headed the siege of Potidaea and was sent with 20 ships to block the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. There in the summer of 429 he won two brilliant victories. In the first, he defeated 47 Peloponnesian ships that were advancing to reinforce the Spartan Cnemus’ campaign in Acarnania; in the second battle, he routed Cnemus’ 77-vessel fleet.
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history of Athens ancient Greek civilization
At Erythrae, not only was the council less democratic than that at Athens, but there also was a property qualification for jurors. And at exceedingly few places other than Athens does inscriptional evidence for amendments from the floor exist. In any case, there are significant exceptions (Samos, Mytilene, Chios, Miletus, Potidaea, and possibly Boeotia) to the generalization that Athens...
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