Proconnesus (city)

Proconnesus or Prokonnesos (Ancient Greek: Προκόννησος), also spelt Proeconesus or Proikonnesos (Προικόνησος),[1] was a Greek town on the southwestern shore of Proconnesus island. Aristeas, the poet of the Arimaspeia, was a native.[2][3] This town, which was a colony of the Milesians,[4] was burnt by a Phoenician fleet, acting under the orders of Persian king Darius I.[5] Strabo distinguishes between old and new Proconnesus. The inhabitants of Cyzicus, at a time which we cannot ascertain, forced the Proconnesians to dwell together with them, and transferred the statue of the goddess Dindymene to their own city.[6]

Its site is located near the town of Marmara on Marmara Island.[7][8]

References

1. Zosimus, Nova Historia 2.30, Hierocles. Synecdemus. p. 662.
2. Herodotus. Histories. 4.14.
3. Strabo. Geographica. xiii. p. 589. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
4. Strabo. Geographica. xii. p. 587. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
5. Herodotus. Histories. 6.33.
6. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 8.46.2.
7. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying.
8. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Proconnesus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.