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KERASSOUS (Ancient city) PONTOS
Mosynoeci, Mossynoeci, Mosyni, Mossyni (Mosunoikoi, Mossunoikoi, mossunoi,
Mossunoi), a tribe on the coast of Pontus, occupying the district between the
Tibareni and Macrones, and containing the towns of Cerasus and Pharnacia. The
Mosynoeci were a brave and warlike people, but are at the same time said to have
been the rudest and most uncivilised among all the tribes of Asia Minor. Many
of their peculiar customs are noticed by the Greeks, who planted colonies in their
districts. They are said to have lived on trees and in towers. (Strab. xii. p.
549.) Their kings, it is said, were elected by the people, and dwelt in an isolated
tower rising somewhat above the houses of his subjects, who watched his proceedings
closely, and provided him with all that was necessary; but when he did anything
that displeased them, they stopped their supplies, and left him to die of starvation.
(Xen. Anab. v. 4. 26; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1027; Diod. xiv. 30; Scymnus, Fragm.
166.) They used to cut off the heads of the enemies they had slain, and carry
them about amid dances and songs. (Xen. Anab. iv. 4. 17; v. 40 § 15.) It is also
related that they knew nothing of marriage (Xen. Anab. v. 4. 33; Diod. l. c.),
and that they generally tattooed their bodies. Eating and drinking was their greatest
happiness, whence the children of the wealthy among them were regularly fattened
with salt dolphins and chestnuts, until they were as thick as they were tall (Xen.
Anab. v. 4. 32). Their arms consisted of heavy spears, six cubits in length, with
round or globular handles; large shields of wicker-work covered with ox-hides
; and leather or wooden helmets, the top of which was adorned with a crest of
hair. (Xen. l. c., v. 4. § 12 ; Herod. vii. 78.) The fourth chapter of the fifth
book of Xenophon's Anabasis is full of curious information about this singular
people. (Comp. also Strab. xi. p. 528; Hecat. Fragm. 193; Steph. B. s. v.; Herod.
iii. 94; Scylax, p. 33.; Amm. Marc. xxii. 8 ; Orph. Argon. 740; Mela, i. 19; Tibull.
iv. 1. 146; Curtius, vi. 4, 17; Plin. vi. 4; Val. Flacc. v. 152; Dionys. Per.
766.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Becheires (Becheires, Becheiroi), a barbarous tribe on the coast of the Pontus (Apoll. Rhod. ii. 396, 1246; Dionys. Perieg. 765), mentioned with the Macrones, and as east of the Macrones. Scylax, following the coast from east to west, names the Becheires, and then the Macrocephali, supposed by Cramer to be the Macrones; but Pliny (vi. 3) distinguishes the Macrones and Macrocephali. Pliny's enumeration of names often rather confuses than helps us; and it is difficult to say where he places the Becheires. But we might infer from Pliny and Mela (i. 19) that they were west of Trapezus, and east of the Thermodon.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Macrones (Makrones), a powerful tribe in the east of Pontus, about the Moschici mountains. They are described as wearing garments made of hair, and as using in war wooden helmets, small shields of wicker-work, and short lances with long points. (Herod. ii. 104, vii. 78; Xenoph. Anab. iv. 8. § 3, v. 5. § 18, vii. 8. § 25; comp. Hecat. Fragm. 191; Scylax, p. 33; Dionys. Perieg. 766; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 22; Plin. vi. 4; Joseph. c. Apion. i. § 22, who asserts that they observed the custom of circumcision.) Strabo (xii. p. 548) remarks, in passing, that the people formerly called Macrones bore in his day the name of Sanni, though Pliny (l. c.) speaks of the Sanni and Macrones as two distinct peoples. They appear to have always been a rude and wild tribe, until civilisation and Christianity were introduced among them in the reign of Justinian. (Procop. Bell. Pers. i. 15, Bell. Goth. iv. 2, de Aed. iii. 6.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Mares, a tribe on the coast of Pontus, in the neighbourhood of the Mosynoeci.
(Hecat. Fragm. 192; Herod. iii. 94.) Their armour, when serving in the army of
Xerxes, is described by Herodotus (vii. 79) as having consisted of helmets of
wicker-work, leather shields, and javelins. Later writers do not mention this
tribe.
Coraxi (Koraxoi, Aristot. Meteor. i. 13; Hecat. Fragm. 185; Steph.
B. s. v.; Mela, i. 19, iii. 5; Scylax) p. 31; Plin. vi. 5. s. 5), a tribe of Pontus
to the NW. of Colchis, and close to the outlying spurs of the Caucasus. They probably
occupied the western bank of the Corax in the neighbourhood of Dioscurias. In
the same district, according to Stephanus, was Coraxicus Murus and Coraxica Regio.
HERAKLIA OF PONTOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Idmon. The son of Apollo and of Asterie, daughter of Coronus; a seer
who took part in the Argonautic expedition, although he foresaw that it would
lead to his own death. He was killed by a wild boar in the land of the Mariandyni,
in Bithynia, and was worshipped as a hero by the inhabitants of the town of Heraclea
in Pontus, which was built around his grave by command of Apollo.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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