Alazia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαζία) was a city of ancient Mysia near the River Odrysses, which flows out of Lake Dascylitis from the west through the plain of Mygdonia and empties into the Rhyndacus.[1] Demetrius of Scepsis calls the town Alazonia (Ἀλαζονία) and places it along with Argyria on the right bank of the Aesepus River near Scepsis.[2] The tribe associated with the town was called Alazones based on the writings of Hekataios, Menekrates, and Palaiphatos.[3] This tribe, which was also mentioned by Homer in the Iliad,[4] persisted after the city of Alazia was abandoned, living in villages along the Odrysses.[5][6] Strabo further clarifies its location as at the foot of Mount Ida near the source of the Aesepus.[7][8]
Its site is unlocated.
References
edit- ^ Hecataeus of Miletus, quoted in Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 12.3.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 12.3.23. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Strabo (1923). Strabo on the Troad: Book XIII, Cap. I. Cambridge: CUP Archive. p. 209.
- ^ Montesano, Marina (2018). Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 23. ISBN 9783319920771.
- ^ Amaseia, Strabo of (2016-02-13). Delphi Complete Works of Strabo - Geography (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 9781786563682.
- ^ Nielsen, Thomas Heine (1997). Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 19. ISBN 3515072225.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p. 693. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Gustav Hirschfeld: Alazia.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 1298.
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