Eion (Thrace)
Eion (Ancient Greek: Ἠϊών) was a town in ancient Thrace. It was a colony of the Mendaeans, which was betrayed to the Athenians, and retaken by the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans in 425 BCE.[1] Eustathius placed Eion in the Chersonesus,[2] but, as William Smith suggests that was much too remote for the Chalcidians to have marched to recover a town, Eion must have been on some point of the long and winding coast which extends from the Strymon River to the Axius River.
References
[edit]- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 4.7.
- ^ Eustathius ap. Homer Il. ii, p. 287
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Eion". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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