Harpagion

Harpagion (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγιον) was a town of the ancient Troad, or of Mysia mentioned by Thucydides.[1] Its territory was called Harpageia (τὰ Ἁρπαγεῖα)[2] or Harpagia (Ἁρπάγια).[3] It lay between Priapus and Cyzicus, near the mouth of the river Granicus. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in tribute records of Athens between the years 448/7 and 429/8 BCE.[4] Thucydides writes that three days after the Battle of Cynossema, during the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians captured eight ships coming from Byzantium at Harpagion and Priapus.[1]

According to some myths Ganymede was snatched from there.[5][6]

Its site is located in Asiatic Turkey.[7][8]

References
  1. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 8.107.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. xiii. p. 587. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  4. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Troad". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 979. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  5. Strabo, Geography, §13.1.11
  6. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §A124.9
  7. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying.
  8. 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). "Harpageia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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