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ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
Datis, with his many myriads, captured by force the whole of the Eretrians; and to Athens he sent on an alarming account of how not a man of the Eretrians had escaped him: the soldiers of Datis had joined hands and swept the whole of Eretria clean as with a draw net. (Plato, Laws 698c). When Datis and Artaphrenes reached Asia in their voyage, they carried the enslaved Eretrians inland to Susa. (Herodt 6.119.1)
On his arrival Flamininus sacked Eretria, defeating the Macedonians who were defending it.
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
Chalcis colonized the cities that were subject to Olynthus, which later were treated outrageously by Philip. And many places in Italy and Sicily are also Chalcidian.
The Amphipolitans having received settlers from Chalcis were most of them driven out by them (Aristotle, Politics: section 1303b).
Leontines, who were colonists from Chalcis (Diodorus Siculus, Library: book 12, chapter 53, section 1)
The inhabitants of Rhegium, who were colonists of Chalcis (Diodorus Siculus, Library: book 14, chapter 40, section 1).
Palaeopolis was a city not far from the present site of Neapolis The two cities formed one community. The original inhabitants came from Cumae; Cumae traced its origin to Chalcis in Euboea. The fleet in which they had sailed from home gave them the mastery of the coastal district which they now occupy, and after landing in the islands of Aenaria and Pithecusae they ventured to transfer their settle- ments to the mainland. (Perseus Project - Livy, History of Rome (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts): book 8, chapter 22 ).
Naxos was founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians on the Euripus.
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
Be this as it may, these cities grew exceptionally strong and even sent forth noteworthy colonies into Macedonia; for Eretria colonized the cities situated round Pallene and Athos, and Chalcis colonized the cities that were subject to Olynthus, which later were treated outrageously by Philip.
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
The Athenians made a clever use of their victory, and after defeating the Boeotians and Chalcidians, they at once after the battle made themselves masters of the city of Chalcis.
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
The following took part in the war:… the Chalcidians with their twenty ships from Artemisium, and the Eretrians with the same seven; these are Ionians.
The Chalcidians manned twenty, the Athenians furnishing the ships
. . . were six hundred Eretrians and Styreans; next to them, four hundred Chalcidians; next again, five hundred Ampraciots.
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
The following took part in the war: . . the Chalcidians with their twenty ships from Artemisium, and the Eretrians with the same seven; these are Ionians.
The Eretrians furnished seven ships
. . . Next to the men of Hermione were six hundred Eretrians and Styreans; next to them, four hundred Chalcidians;
AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
When Agesilaus offered to undertake the campaign, the Lacedaemonians gave him everything he asked for and provisions for six months. And when he marched forth from the country after offering all the sacrifices which were required, including that at the frontier, he dispatched messengers to the various cities and announced how many men were to be sent from each city, and where they were to report; while as for himself, he desired to go and offer sacrifice at Aulis, the place where Agamemnon had sacrificed before he sailed to Troy. When he had reached Aulis, however, the Boeotarchs, on learning that he was sacrificing, sent horsemen and bade him discontinue his sacrificing, and they threw from the altar the victims which they found already offered. Then Agesilaus, calling the gods to witness, and full of anger, embarked upon his trireme and sailed away. And when he arrived at Gerastus and had collected there as large a part of his army as he could, he directed his course to Ephesus.
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
Euboian Greeks from Eretria and Chalkis established here (Aenaria-Ischia, Italy) in the early 8th c. B.C. a commercial post to facilitate trade with mainland Etruscans.
It was first colonized by Greek settlers from Chalcis and Eretria, either simultaneously with, or even previous to, the foundation of Cumae on the neighbouring mainland; and the colony attained to great prosperity, but afterwards suffered severely from internal dissensions, and was ultimately compelled to abandon the island in consequence of violent earthquakes and volcanic outbreaks. (Liv. viii. 22; Strab. v. p. 248.)
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
The nearest approach to a coalition took place in the old war between Chalcis and Eretria; this was a quarrel in which the rest of the Hellenic name did to some extent take sides. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: book 1, chapter 15, section 3
ERETRIA (Ancient city) EVIA
The Lelantine war took place at the end of the 8th c. B.C. between Eretria and Chalkis.
Lelantine War. A war waged between Eretria and Chalcis, probably for the possession of the plain of Lelantus (q.v.). E. Curtius has assumed as the date of this contest B.C. 704, which Professor Mahaffy thinks too early. Some of the most powerful States of Greece joined in the struggle, especially Samos and Miletus. See Strabo, pp. 58, 447; Herod.v. 99; Thuc.i. 15; Hermann in the Rheinisches Museum, i. p. 85; and especially Mahaffy in Hermathena, iv. p. 325.
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