Heracleium
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Heracleium or Herakleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον), also known as Lamyron,[1] was a port town of ancient Pontus, on the Black Sea,[2] between Amisus and Polemonium.
Variants
- Herakleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον)
- Lamyron
- Herakleios akra
- Herakleous Akron
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Herokia = Heracleium (Pliny.vi.5)
- Lami = Heracleium (Pliny.vi.5)
Location
It was situated on a promontory of the same name (called Herakleios akra (Ἡράκλειος ἄκρα) by Strabo,[3] and Herakleous Akron (Ἡρακλέους ἄκρον) by Ptolemy[4]).
History
Its site is north of the mouth of the Terme River, Anatolia.[5][6]
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[7] mentions...After passing Dioscurias we come to the town of Heracleium6, seventy miles distant from Sebastopolis, and then the Achæi7, the Mardi8, and the Cercetæ9, and, behind them, the Cerri and the Cephalotomi.10
6 There were two places called Heracleium on this coast, one north and the other south of the river Achæus: probably the latter is here meant.
7 Probably meaning the "martial people," or the "people of Mars."
8 Said to have been descended from the Achæns or Greeks who accompanied Jason in the Argonautic Expedition, or, according to Ammianus, who resorted thither after the conclusion of the Trojan war.
9 This was the title, not of a single nation, but of a number of peoples distinguished for their predatory habits.
10 This people occupied the N.E. shore of the Euxine, between the Cimmerian Bosporus and the frontier of Colchis. Their name is still in existence, and is applied to the whole western district of the Caucasus, in the forms of Tcherkas, as applied to the people, and Tcherkeskaia or Circassia, to the country.
References
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p. 548. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ↑ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 2.3.3.
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 5