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Headword: Cherronêsos
Adler number: chi,215
Translated headword: Cherronesos, Chersonesos, Chersonese
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A territory of Thrace. Also a city [sc. there] tributary to the Athenians, fertile for growing cereals; hence the Athenians also used to import grain [sc. from it].[1] [The people] whom Kleon might shake.
Greek Original:
Cherronêsos: Thraikês chôra. kai polis hupotelês tois Athênaiois, euphoros eis purôn geôrgian: hothen kai esitagôgoun hoi Athênaioi. hous Kleôn dieseie.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 262 (web address 1), which actually refers to Athenian cleruchs (settlers) there. For Kleon see kappa 1731. See generally OCD(4) p.308, under Chersonesus(1), and Barrington Atlas map 51 grid G4.
[1] Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.10.7; cf. R. Körpe and M.F. Yavuz, 'The Harbors of the Thracian Chersonese', Archaeological Institute of America 108th Annual Meeting Abstracts, San Diego, 2007, 5 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; comedy; definition; economics; food; geography; history; politics; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@03:51:15.
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