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Headword:
*stru/mh
Adler number: sigma,1231
Translated headword: Stryme
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An island, a colony of Thasians. It is a Thasian trading-post.
Greek Original:*stru/mh: nh=sos, a)/poikos *qasi/wn. e)/sti de\ e)mpo/rion *qasi/wn.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., glossing the appearance of this toponym in
Demosthenes 50.21 and going on to deploy historiography and poetry.
Stryme -- apparently
not an island -- lay on the N Aegean coast, perhaps between
Abdera and
Maroneia (Barrington Atlas map 51 grid E3).
References:
A.J. Graham, Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (Manchester 1964) index s.v.
P. Harding, Androtion and the Atthis (Oxford 1994) 127-8
Keywords: definition; economics; geography; historiography; history; poetry; rhetoric; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@09:35:31.
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