Aeolium

Aeolium or Aioleion (Ancient Greek: Αἰόλειον) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in the tribute registry of Athens for the years 434/3, 433/2 and 429/8 BCE, where it paid a phoros of 500 drachmas.[1] It also appears in a treaty of alliance between the Athenians and Bottiaeans dated to 422 BCE,[2] from which it is deduced that it belonged to the territory of Bottiaea.[3] However, in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus of Byzantium, Aeolium is cited as a city of the Thracian Chersonesus.

Its site is near modern Bottike.[4][5]

References

  1. IG I³ 278, col. VI,30.
  2. IG I³ 76, 44,53.
  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. 822–823. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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