Aege

Aege or Aige (Ancient Greek: Αἰγή) was a town of the Pallene peninsula in the Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It is mentioned by Herodotus as one of the cities of the peninsula of Pallene where Xerxes recruited troops and ships in his expedition of 480 BCE against Greece.[1] It was probably one of the cities that sent troops to help Potidaea when that city was besieged by the Achaemenid army under the command of Artabazus in 479 BCE.[2] Later the city belonged to the Delian League since it is mentioned in Athenian tribute lists from 454/3 to 415/4 BCE.[3]

The site of Aege is near the modern Pefkokhori.[4][5]

References
  1. Herodotus. Histories. 7.123.
  2. Herodotus. Histories. 8.128.
  3. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 821–822. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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