Lisaea
LisaeaorLisaia(Ancient Greek:Λίσαια), alsoLisaeorLisai(Ancient Greek:Λίσαι), was an ancient Greekpolis(city-state) in theChalcidice,ancient Macedonia.It is cited byHerodotusas one of the cities—together withLipaxus,Combreia,Gigonus,Campsa,Smila,Aeneia—located in the vicinity of theThermaic Gulf,in a region calledCrusisnear the peninsula ofPallene,whereXerxesrecruited troops in hisexpedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.[1]
Since Lisaea does not appear in any other source, it has been suggested that the toponym must have been a scribal error that should actually refer to a city calledAesa(Αἶσα) that belonged to theDelian Leagueappearing in the tribute registry toAthensfor 434/3 BCE.[2]This suggestion was accepted by the editors of theBarrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.[3]
References
[edit]- ^Herodotus.Histories.Vol. 7.123.
- ^Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon".An inventory of archaic and classical poleis.New York:Oxford University Press.pp. 828–829.ISBN0-19-814099-1.
- ^Richard Talbert,ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.ISBN978-0-691-03169-9.