Pteleum (Ionia)

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Pteleum or Pteleon (Ancient Greek: Πτελεόν) was a fortress town in the territory of Erythrae, in Ionia.[1] Pliny the Elder mentions Pteleon, Helos, and Dorium as near Erythrae,[2] but those places are confused by Pliny with the Triphylian towns in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[3]

Pteleum was a member of the Delian League since it is mentioned in tribute records to Athens at least between the years 450/49 and 430/29 BCE.[4]

Thucydides places it in the territory of Erythrae and says that, like Sidussa it was a fortified place that was used by the Athenian army under the command of and to attack positions on Chios in the year 412 BCE. The following winter , in command of Spartan ships along with others from Chios, attacked Pteleum, but failed to take it.[1]

Its location is near .[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 8.24, 31
  2. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 5.29.31.
  3. ^ Homer. Iliad. 2.594.
  4. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Ionia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1093. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  5. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 56, and directory notes accompanying.

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

Coordinates: 38°29′N 26°25′E / 38.483°N 26.417°E / 38.483; 26.417


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