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KALLIPOLIS (Ancient city) PUGLIA
Callipolis (Kallipolis), a city on the E. coast of Sicily, which was
of Greek origin, and a colony from the neighbouring city of Naxos. (Scymn. Ch.
286; Strab. vi. p. 272.) It appears to have ceased to exist at an early period,
as the only notice of it found in history is in Herodotus (vii. 154), who mentions
it as having been besieged and reduced to subjection by Hippocrates, tyrant of
Gela. It is probable that it was destroyed, or its inhabitants removed, either
by that ruler, or his successor Gelon, according to a policy familiar to the Sicilian
despots, as, from the absence of all mention of the name by Thucydides during
the operations of the Athenians on the E. coast of Sicily, it seems certain that
it was then no longer in existence. Nor is the name afterwards found in Diodorus;
and it is only mentioned by Strabo as one of the cities of Sicily that had disappeared
before his time. (Strab. vi. p. 272; Steph. B. s. v.) Silius Italicus, indeed,
speaks of it as if it still existed during the Second Punic War (xiv. 249); but
his accuracy on this point may well be questioned. It was probably situated on
the coast between Naxos and Messana.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town on the east coast of Sicily not far from Aetna.
A city on the Gulf of Taranto, 48 km from the Japigio Promontory. Considered by the ancients to be of Greek origin (Mela 2.4), it was founded by the Lakedaimonian Leukippos, perhaps with the assistance of the Tarentines, for whom it became an important port (Dion. 19.3). According to Pliny (HN 3.100) its Messapian name would have been Anxa, but certainly the ancient city must have occupied the site of modern Gallipoli. In the Roman period it had municipal regulation and was perhaps ascribed to the tribus Fabia (CIL IX, 7-9). Archaeological finds are in the Museo Civico.
F. G. Lo Porto, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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