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ATALANTI (Island) FTHIOTIDA
Atalanta (Atalante: Eth. Atalantaios.) (Talandonisi), a small island
off Locris, in the Opuntian gulf, said to have been torn asunder from the mainland
by an earthquake. In the first year of the Peloponnesian war it was fortified
by the Athenians for the purpose of checking the Locrians in their attacks upon
Euboea. In the sixth year of the war a part of the Athenian works was destroyed
by a great inundation of the sea. (Strab. i. p. 61, ix. pp. 395, 425; Thuc. ii.
32, iii. 89; Diod. xii. 44, 59; Paus. x. 20. § 3; Liv. xxxv. 37; Plin. ii. 88,
iv. 12; Sen. Q. N. vi. 24; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p.
172.)
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AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Abae (Abai. Eth. Abaios: near Exarkho, Ru.), an ancient town of Phocis,
near the frontiers of the Opuntian Locrians, said to have been built by the Argive
Abas, son of Lynceus and. Hypermnestra, and grandson of Danaus. Near the town
and on the road towards Hyampolis was an ancient temple and oracle of Apollo,
who hence derived the surname of Abaeus. So celebrated was this oracle, that it
was consulted both by Croesus and by Mardonius. Before the Persian invasion the
temple was richly adorned with treasuries and votive offerings. It was twice destroyed
by fire; the first time by the Persians in their march through Phocis (B.C. 480),
and a second time by the Boeotians in the Sacred or Phocian war (B.C. 346). Hadrian
caused a smaller temple to be built near the ruins of the former one. In the new
temple there were three ancient statues in brass of Apollo, Leto, and Artemis,
which had been dedicated by the Abaei, and had perhaps been saved from the former
temple. The ancient agora and the ancient theatre still existed in the town in
the time of Pausanias. According to the statement; of Aristotle, as preserved
by Strabo, Thracians from the Phocian town of Abae emigrated to Euboea, and gave
to the inhabitants the name of Abantes. The ruins of Abae are on a peaked hill
to the W. of Exarkho. There are now no remains on the summit of the peak; but
the walls and some of the gates may still be traced on the SW. side. There are
also remains of the walls, which formed the inclosure of the temple. (Paus. x.
35; Herod. i. 46, viii. 134, 33; Diod. xvi. 530; Strab. pp. 423, 445; Steph. Byz.
s. v.; Gell, Itinerary, p. 226; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 163, seq.)
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KYRTONES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Kurtones: Eth. Kurtonios. Anciently called Cyrtone (Kurtone), a city
of Boeotia, east of the lake Copais, and 20 stadia from Hyettus, situated upon
a lofty mountain, after crossing which the traveller arrived at Corsia. Cyrtones
contained a grove and temple of Apollo, in which were statues of Apollo and Artemis,
and a fountain of cold water, at the source of which was a chapel of the nymphs.
Forchhammer places Cyrtones on the hill of the church of St. Athanasius between
the villages of Paula and Luki, and the Metokhi of Dendra. Here is celebrated
every spring a great festival, which Forchhammer regards as the remains of the
ancient festival of Apollo and Artemis.
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OPOUS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Opous (contr. of Opoeis, Il. ii. 531), Eth. Opountios. The chief town
of a tribe of the Locri, who were called from this place the Locri Opuntii. It
stood at the head of the Opuntian gulf (ho Opountios kolpos, Strab. ix. p. 425;
Opuntius Sinus, Plin. iv. 7. s. 12; Mela, ii. 3. § 6), a little inland, being
15 stadia from the shore according to Strabo, or only a mile according to Livy
(xxviii. 6). Opus was believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Greece.
It was said to have been founded by Opus, a son of Locrus and Protogeneia; and
in its neighbourhood Deucalion and Pyrrha were reported to have resided. (Pind.
Ol. ix. 62, 87; Schol. ad loc.) It was the native city of Patroclus. (Hom. Il.
xviii. 326), and it is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue as one of the Locrian
towns subject to Ajax, son of Oileus (Il. ii. 531). During the flourishing period
of Grecian history, it was regarded as the chief city of the eastern Locrians,
for the distinction between the Opuntii and Epicnemidii is not made either by
Herodotus, Thucydides, or Polybius. Even Strabo, from whom the distinction is
chiefly derived, in one place describes Opus as the capital of the Epicnemidii
(ix. p. 416); and the same is confirmed by Pliny (iv. 7. s. 12) and Stephanus
(s. v. Opoeis; from Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 181.) The Opuntii joined
Leonidas with all their forces at Thermopylae, and sent seven ships to the Grecian
fleet at Artemisium. (Herod. vii. 203, viii 1.) Subsequently they belonged to
the anti-Athenian party in Greece. Accordingly, after the conquest of Boeotia
by the Athenians, which followed the battle of Oenophyta, B.C. 456, the Athenians
carried off 100 of the richest Opuntians as hostages. (Thuc. i. 108.) In the Peloponnesian
War the Opuntian privateers annoyed the Athenian trade, and it was in order to
check them that the Athenians fortified the small island of Atalanta off the Opuntian
coast. (Thuc. ii. 32.) In the war between Antigonus and Cassander, Opus espoused
the cause of the latter, and was therefore besieged by Ptolemy, the general of
Antigonus. (Diod. xix. 78.) The position of Opus is a disputed point. Meletius
has fallen into the error of identifying it with Pundonitza, which is in the territory
of the Epicnemidii. Many modern writers place Opus at Talanda, where are several
Hellenic remains; but Leake observes that the distance of Talanda from the sea
is much too great to correspond with the testimony of Strabo and Livy. Accordingly
Leake places Opus at Kardhenitza, a village situated an hour to the south-eastward
of Talanda, at a distance from the sea corresponding to the 15 stadia of Strabo,
and where exist the remains of an ancient city. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p.
173, seq.)
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YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Huampolis: Eth. Huampolites. An ancient town of Phocis, mentioned
by Homer (Il. ii. 521), and said to have been founded by the Hyantes after they
had been expelled from Boeotia by the Cadmeians. (Paus. ix. 35. § 5; Strab. ix.
p. 424.) It was situated on the road leading from Orchomenus to Opus (Paus. l
c.), and, as it stood at the entrance of a valley which formed a convenient passage
from Locris into Phocis and Boeotia, its name frequently occurs in history. It
was at the entrance of this pass that the Phocians gained a victory over the Thessalians.
(Herod. viii. 28.) Hyampolis was afterwards destroyed, along with the other Phocian
towns, by the army of Xerxes. (Herod. viii. 33.) In B.C. 371 Jason, in his march
through Phocis, when he was returning from Boeotia after the battle of Leuctra,
is said to have taken Huampoliton to proasteion (Xen Hell. vi. 4. § 27), which
is supposed by some to be the same place as Cleonae, a village belonging to Hyampolis.
(Pint. de Virt. Mul. p. 244; Valcken. ad Herod. viii. 28.) In B.C. 347 a battle
was fought near Hyampolis between the Boeotians and Phocians. (Diod. xvi. 56.)
The city is said to have been destroyed by Philip; but, as Pausanias states that
the ancient agora, senate-house, and theatre were still remaining in his time,
it must have been chiefly the fortifications which were destroyed by Philip. At
all events it continued to be an inhabited city, and is mentioned in the Roman
wars in Greece. (Liv. xxxii. 18.) It was embellished by Hadrian with a Stoa. Pausanias
mentions also a temple of Artemis, who was the deity chiefly worshipped in the
city. (Paus. x. 35. § § 6, 7.) Pliny (iv. 7. s. 12) and Ptolemy (iii. 15. § 20)
erroneously describe Hyampolis as a city of Boeotia.
The ruins of Hyampolis may be seen upon a height about five minutes
northward of the village of Vogdhani. The entire circuit of the fortifications
is traceable, but they are most complete on the western side. The masonry is of
the third order, nearly approaching to the most regular kind. The circumference
is about three-quarters of a mile. The direct distance to this ruin from the summit
of Abae is not more than a mile and a half in a north-west direction. Below Vogdhani,
on the side of a steep bank which falls to the valley of Khubavo, a fountain issuing
from the rock is discharged through two spouts into a stone reservoir of ancient
construction, which stands probably in its original place. (Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. ii. pp. 167, seq.)
Strabo relates that there was another town, named Hyampolis, in Phocis,
situated on Parnassus.
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AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
A city of Phocis, near and to the right of Elatea, towards Opus.
The inhabitants had a tradition that their city was founded by Abas, son of Lynceus
and Hypermnestra, grandson of Danaus. It was most probably of Pelasgic origin.
Abae was early celebrated for its oracle of Apollo, of greater antiquity than
that at Delphi, and hence Apollo is called Abaeus. During the Persian invasion,
the army of Xerxes set fire to the temple, and nearly destroyed it; soon after
it again gave oracles, though in this dilapidated state, and was consulted for
that purpose by an agent of Mardonius.
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OPOUS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
A town of Locris, from which the Opuntian Locrians derived their name. It was the birthplace of Patroclus. The bay of the Euboean Sea, near Opus, was called Opuntius Sinus.
YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
A town in Phocis, east of the Cephissus, near Cleonae, founded by the Hyantes. It was first destroyed by Xerxes, and afterwards rebuilt to be destroyed again in part by Philip and the Amphictyons.
YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
On the main road from Boiotia and Phokis to Opus, and so to Thermopylai;
Pausanias 10. 35. 5 records that the city was a settlement of Huantes from Thebes,
and that the full name of the city was Huanton polis. Kleonai, the actual scene
of the Thessalian defeat (Plutarch, l.c. c. 28) a little higher up the pass, was
presumably a dependency of Hyampolis; remains of Hyampolis are identifiable (Leake
ii. 167, Bursian i. 165, Frazer v. 442). The city would be the first exposed to
the attack of a force coming from Thermopylai, and probably in 480 B.C. (with
Abai) was destroyed, not by the Persian column which had crossed from Malis into
Doris, and then worked down the Kephisos valley, spreading ruin and death wherever
it came, but by the main column, which must have advanced from Thermopylai along
the coast, and through the pass of Hyampolis.
AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Important city near Exarcho village in the upper reaches of a tributary of the Kephisos. Abai and nearby Hyampolis were on the main Orchomenos-Opous road, and astride the main route from E Lokris into NE Phokis. The valley was the scene of two famous Phokian victories over the Thessalians, shortly before 480. Half of the spoils and several colossal figures were dedicated to Apollo at Abai; this oracular shrine was famous enough to be consulted by Croesus.
The hill of Abai is encircled by two well-preserved lines of wall; a considerable portion of these has been regarded as archaic. Some parts, and probably also the walls descending the E and NE slopes to the plain, can hardly be earlier than the mid 4th c. There are scattered remains inside these latter walls, and Pausanias saw an ancient theater and agora.
Some 600 m NW of the city a temenos was explored, probably that of Apollo. In addition to a classical stoa, it contained two buildings, identified as the old temple, burned by Xerxes and again in the Third Social War, and a small Hadrianic replacement. IG IX 1.78 is a letter from Philip V reconfirming the ancient tax-exemption of the sanctuary.
Cemeteries have been found W of the sanctuary, and also near Exarcho.
F. E. Winter, ed.
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