Priansus

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Priansus or Priansos (Ancient Greek: Πρίανσος), also Pransus or Pransos (Πράνσος), was a town and polis (city-state)[1] in ancient Crete. It is mentioned in a list of Cretan cities cited in a decree of Cnossus of about 259-233 BCE,[2] as well as in the list of Cretan cities that signed an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon in 183 BCE.[3] An honorary decree of Priansus dated to 170-140 BCE that includes the dispatch of two ambassadors of Teos in which one of them is specially praised for singing poems from the mythic Cretan cycle.[4][5] Priansus minted coins dated from approximately 330-270 BCE bearing the inscription «ΠΡΙΑΝΣΙΕΩΝ» or «ΠΡΙ».[1]

The site of Priansus is located near modern .[6][7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1184–1185. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. ^ SEG 29, 1135
  3. ^ IC IV,179.
  4. ^ I.Cret.I, XXIV, N.1.7-13
  5. ^ Ángel Martínez Fernández, El culto y los honores a los héroes en la antigua Creta, en Koinòs Lógos. Homenaje al profesor José García López, Murcia, 2006, p. 595. (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
  7. ^ 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). "Praesus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

Coordinates: 35°02′40″N 25°15′40″E / 35.04456°N 25.26122°E / 35.04456; 25.26122


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