Εμφανίζονται 1 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Αρχαίες πηγές στην ευρύτερη περιοχή: "ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΑ Νησί ΑΤΤΙΚΗ" .
ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΑ (Νησί) ΑΤΤΙΚΗ
On the voyage from Nisaea to Attica one comes to five small islands. Then to Salamis,
which is about seventy stadia in length, though some say eighty. It contains a
city of the same name; the ancient city, now deserted, faces towards Aegina and
the south wind (just as Aeschylus has said, "And Aegina here lies towards the
blasts of the south wind"), but the city of today is situated on a gulf, on a
peninsula-like place which borders on Attica. In early times it was called by
different names, for example, "Sciras" and "Cychreia," after certain heroes. It
is from one of these heroes that Athena is called "Sciras," and that a place in
Attica is called "Scira," and that a certain sacred rite is performed in honor
of "Scirus," and that one of the months is called "Scirophorion."
And it is from the other hero that the serpent "Cychreides"
took its name--the serpent which, according to Hesiod, was fostered by Cychreus
and driven out by Eurylochus because it was damaging the island, and was welcomed
to Eleusis by Demeter and made her attendant. And the island was also called Pityussa,
from the tree. But the fame of the island is due to the Aiacidae, who ruled over
it, and particularly to Aias, the son of Telamon, and also to the fact that near
this island Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks in a naval battle and fled to his
homeland. And the Aeginetans also shared in the glory of this struggle, since
they were neighbors and furnished a considerable fleet. And there is in Salamis
a river Bocarus, which is now called Bocalia.
At the present time the island is held by the Athenians, although
in early times there was strife between them and the Megarians for its possession.
Some say that it was Peisistratus, others Solon, who inserted in the Catalogue
of Ships immediately after the verse, "and Aias brought twelve ships from
Salamis," the verse, "and, bringing them, halted them where the battalions
of the Athenians were stationed," and then used the poet as a witness that
the island had belonged to the Athenians from the beginning. But the critics do
not accept this interpretation, because many of the verses bear witness to the
contrary. For why is Aias found in the last place in the ship-camp, not with the
Athenians, but with the Thessalians under Protesilaus, "Here were the ships
of Aias and Protesilaus."
And in the Visitation of the troops, Agamemnon "found Menestheus
the charioteer, son of Peteos, standing still; and about him were the Athenians,
masters of the battle-cry. And near by stood Odysseus of many wiles, and about
him, at his side, the ranks of the Cephallenians." And back again to Aias
and the Salaminians, "he came to the Aiantes," and near them, "Idomeneus
on the other side," not Menestheus. The Athenians, then, are reputed to have
cited alleged testimony of this kind from Homer, and the Megarians to have replied
with the following parody: "Aias brought ships from Salamis, from Polichne,
from Aegeirussa, from Nisaea, and from Tripodes"; these four are Megarian
places, and, of these, Tripodes is called Tripodiscium, near which the present
marketplace of the Megarians is situated.
Some say that Salamis is foreign to Attica, citing the fact that the
priestess of Athena Polias does not touch the fresh cheese made in Attica, but
eats only that which is brought from a foreign country, yet uses, among others,
that from Salamis. Wrongly, for she eats cheese brought from the other islands
that are admittedly attached to Attica, since those who began this custom considered
as "foreign" any cheese that was imported by sea. But it seems that
in early times the present Salamis was a separate state, and that Megara was a
part of Attica. And it is on the seaboard opposite Salamis that the boundaries
between the Megarian country and Atthis are situated--two mountains which are
called Cerata.
Λάβετε το καθημερινό newsletter με τα πιο σημαντικά νέα της τουριστικής βιομηχανίας.
Εγγραφείτε τώρα!