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SAPES (Ancient area) RODOPI
Rhascuporis, brother of Rhascus, and with him chieftain of a Thracian clan, whose
territories extended from the northern shores of the Propontis to the Hebrus and
the neighbourhood of Philippi. Whether the clan were that of the Sapaei or the
Korpalli, or comprised both races, is uncertain. But it occupied both the mountain
ridge that skirts the Propontis and the southern plains which are between the
base of Mount Rhodope and the sea (comp. Appian, B. C. iv. 87, 105; Tac. Ann.
ii. 64; Plin. H. N. iv. 11 (18)). We can only thus explain the seeming inconsistency
in Appian's account of these chieftains; for he describes their territory as a
lofty, cold, and woody region, and yet assigns to them a powerful body of cavalry.
In the civil war, B. C. 49-48, Rhascuporis joined Cn. Pompey, with 200 horse,
at Dyrrachium; and in the war that followed Caesar's death, he aided Cassius with
3000, while his brother Rhascus, at the head of an equal number of cavalry, embraced
the cause of the triumvirs. According to Appian this was a politic and provident
device for mutual security; and it was agreed beforehand that the brother whose
party was triumphant, should obtain the pardon of the brother whose party was
vanquished. And so, after the victory at Philippi, Rhascuporis owed his life to
the intercession of Rhascus. Each brother rendered good service to his respective
party. When the road from Asia into Macedonia, by Aenos and Maroneia, had been
preoccupied by the triumviral legions, Rhascuporis, in whose dominions the passes
were, led the armies of Brutus and Cassius by a road through the forest, known
only to himself and Rhascus. And Rhascus, on the other hand, by his local knowledge,
detected the march of the enemy, and saved his allies from being cut off in the
rea. (Caes. B. C. iii. 4; Appian. B. C. iv. 87, 103-106, 136; Lucan. Pharsal.
v. 55; Dion Cass. xlvii. 25). For the varieties in the orthography of Rhascuporis,
e. g., Rhascypolis, Rascyporis, Thrascypolis, &c., see Fabricius, ad Dion Cuss.
xlvii. 25; Adrian, Turneb. Adversar. xiv. 17. On the coins we meet with Basileos
Rhaskouporidos, and Rhaiskouporidos. Lucan calls him "gelidae dominum Rhascupolin
orae."
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
Athenion, a painter, born at Maroneia in Thrace. He was a pupil of Glaucion of Corinth, and a contemporary probably of Nicias, whom he resembled and excelled, though his style was harsher. He gave promise of the highest excellence in his art, but died young. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40.29)
MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
A Greek poet from Maroneia in Thrace, who lived at Alexandria
under Ptolemy Philadelphus about B.C. 276. He is said to have been drowned in
the sea in a leaden chest for some sarcastic remark about the marriage of the
king with his own sister Arsinoe. He composed in Ionic dialect and in a peculiar
metre named after him (Sotadeus or Sotadicus versus, Sotadeia aismata) poems called
kinaidoi or phluakes, malicious satires partly on indelicate subjects, which were
intended for recitation accompanied by a mimic dance, and also travesties of mythological
subjects, such as the Iliad of Homer. He found numerous imitators.
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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