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Headword: *)antipe/treia
Adler number: alpha,2713
Translated headword: Antipetreia, Antipatreia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city.
Greek Original:
*)antipe/treia: o)/noma po/lews.
Note:
As no city called Antipetreia is otherwise attested, this is surely Antipatreia (sic), in southern Illyria (present-day Berati, Albania); Barrington Atlas map 49 grid B3. Polybius 5.108.2 mentions it as one of three cities of the Dassaretai captured (from Macedonian rule) by King Scerdilaidas of the Ardiaioi in 217 BCE.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@10:25:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 15 August 2002@04:26:45.
William Hutton (Set status) on 30 October 2002@13:47:01.
Nicholas Fincher (Added headword and comment) on 6 July 2003@07:44:43.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 2 August 2011@06:37:19.
David Whitehead (expanded and modified note; more keywords) on 25 July 2015@07:16:12.

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