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Location information
Listed 2 sub titles with search on: The inhabitants
for destination: "AKANTHOS
Ancient city
CHALKIDIKI".
The inhabitants (2)
Names of the inhabitants
Acanthius, Acanthians
Perseus Project
- Perseus: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary(1879)
Worships of the inhabitants
Hero Artachaees
While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an illness. He was high in Xerxes' favor, an Achaemenid by lineage, and the tallest man in Persia, lacking four finger-breadths of five royal cubits1 in stature, and his voice was the loudest on earth. For this reason Xerxes mourned him greatly and gave him a funeral and burial of great pomp, and the whole army poured libations on his tomb.The Acanthians hold Artachaees a hero, and sacrifice to him, calling upon his name. This they do at the command of an oracle.
- Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
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