Phagres
Phagres(Ancient Greek:Φάγρης) was aGreek[1]city located inancient Thraceand later inMacedon,in the region between the riverStrymonand the riverNestoscalledEdonisorPieris.[2][3][4]It was founded by colonists fromThasos.[5]It was perhaps together withGalepsusandApolloniaoccupied and destroyed byPhilip II of Macedonafter the capture ofAmphipolis.Despite this, archeological remains includeHellenisticfinds and indications that Phagres survived into the Roman period.[1]
Its site is located near modernOrfani(Orphanion).[6][7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abMogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004).An inventory of archaic and classical poleis.New York:Oxford University Press.p. 865.ISBN0-19-814099-1.
- ^Herodotus.Histories.Vol. 7.112.
- ^Thucydides.History of the Peloponnesian War.Vol. 2.99.
- ^Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax,68;Strabo.Geographica.Vol. vii., Fr. 33, p. 331.Page numbers refer to those ofIsaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^[1]Archived2017-04-24 at theWayback MachineD. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 160-161.ISBN960-7265-16-5
- ^Richard Talbert,ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.ISBN978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^Lund University.Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Smith, William,ed. (1854–1857). "Phagres".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.London: John Murray.
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