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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).
[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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