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SKANDIA (Ancient city) KYTHIRA
Thucydides, in his account of the conquest of Cythera by Nicias, mentions
three places; Scandeia, and two towns called Cythera, one on the coast and the
other inland. Nicias sailed against the island with 60 triremes. Ten of them took
Scandeia upon the coast (he epi thalassei polis, Skandeia kaloumene); the remainder
proceeded to the side opposite Cape Malea, where, after landing, the troops first
captured the maritime city of the Cytherians (he epi thalassei polis ton Kutheron),
and afterwards the upper city (he ano polis). According to this account, we should
be led to place Scandeia upon the coast of the Sicilian sea, where Kapsali, the
modern town of Cerigo, now stands;
This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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