Serrheum

Serrheum or Serreion (Ancient Greek: Σέρρειον),[1][2] or Serrhium or Serrion (Σέρριον),[3] was a town on the southern coast of ancient Thrace, on a promontory of the same name (now Cape Makri).[4] It lay to the west of Maroneia, and opposite to the island of Samothrace. It is repeatedly mentioned by Demosthenes, as having been taken by Philip II of Macedon (346 BCE), contrary to his engagements with the Athenians;[5] and Livy states that it was one of the Thracian towns captured by Philip V of Macedon in the year 200 BCE.[6][7][8]

For the place on the Thracian Chersonese, see Serrion Teichos. For the town of ancient Samothrace, see Serrheum (Samothrace).

Its site is unlocated.[9]

See also

References
  1. Herodotus. Histories. 7.59.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  3. per Demosthenes
  4. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Nestos to Hebros". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 872. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  5. Demosthenes, 7.37, 9.15.
  6. Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 31.16.
  7. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.11.18.
  8. Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. 2.2.
  9. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.

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


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