Heraeum (Thrace)

Heraeum or Heraion (Ancient Greek: Ἥραιον), also known as Heraion Teichos (Ἡραῖον τεῖχος) was a Greek^[1] city in ancient Thrace, located on the Propontis, a little to the east of Bisanthe.^[2]^[3] The city was a Samian colony^[4]^[5] and founded around 600 BC.^[4] In some of the Itineraries, the place is called Hiereum or Ereon.

Herodotus, Demosthenes, Harpokration, Stephanus of Byzantium and Suda mention the city.

In 352 BCE Phillip II besieged the city. Athens decided to send a fleet of forty triremes and to levy sixty talents in order to help the city, but the fleet never set sail. Only later a much smaller fleet of ten ships and money of five talents were sent. But Philip captured the city.^[6]

Its site is near , in Turkey.^[7]^[8]

References[]

^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 918. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Herodotus. Histories. 4.90.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v. Ἡραῖον.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Suda, § eta.489
^ Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators, h15
^ Demosthenes and His Time: A Study in Defeat, p.124
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Heraeum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.