Was the best harbour on the Asiatic side of the *Hellespont. In the Iliad (2. 836) an ally of Troy and then a Thracian settlement, it was colonized c.700
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Abydos
Stephen Mitchell
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Acragas
Arthur Geoffrey Woodhead and R. J. A. Wilson
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Amathus
Hector Catling
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Amphipolis
James Maxwell Ross Cormack and Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
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Antissa
D. Graham J. Shipley
Antissa, small coastal *polis in NW *Lesbos; birthplace of the poet *Terpander. A bronze age site has been explored; the Classical town originated in the early geometric period. Three apsidal buildings (possibly temples), stretches of a probable city wall, and remains of a harbour mole have been identified. The Mytileneans strengthened the defences during their revolt of 428
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Bassae
Richard Allan Tomlinson
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Brauron
Robin Osborne
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Buthrotum
David R. Hernandez
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Calauria
D. Graham J. Shipley
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Callipolis
W. M. Murray
Callipolis (also Callion), main city of the Aetolian tribe Callieis (a branch of the Ophiones), located in eastern *Aetolia on the upper Mournos river. Mentioned by *Thucydides (2) (3. 96. 3) in the 5th cent., the Callieis in the 4th cent. fortified their city, which prospered until it was attacked and destroyed by the Gauls (see
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Camarina
Arthur Geoffrey Woodhead and R. J. A. Wilson
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Cassope
W. M. Murray
Cassope, main city of the Cassopaeans, a Thesprotian people (see
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Delphi
Michael C. Scott
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Ephyra
W. M. Murray
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Europus
Margaret Stephana Drower, Eric William Gray, and Antony Spawforth
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Gnathia
H. Kathryn Lomas
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harbours
Philip de Souza
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Heraclea (2) by Latmus
Antony Spawforth
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Hippodamus, of Miletus
Richard Allan Tomlinson and Antony Spawforth
Hippodamus of *Miletus, was the most famous Greek town-planner. He was born probably about 500
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Idalium
Hector Catling
Idalium (mod. Dhali), a small inland city of *Cyprus, in a long-populated area (perhaps the ‘Edi'al’ of the Esarhaddon prism), was 16 km. (10 mi.) SSE of Nicosia, on the south side of the Yalias valley, where in the 12th cent.