Cardia (Thrace)

Cardia (in Greek Kαρδία), anciently the chief town of the Thracian Chersonese (today Gallipoli peninsula), was situated at the head of the gulf of Melas (today Saros bay). It was originally a colony of the Milesians and Clazomenians; but subsequently, in the time of Miltiades (late 6th century BC), the place also received Athenian colonists, as proved by Miltiades tyranny (515–493 BC). But this didn't make Cardia necessarily always pro-Athenian: when in 357 BC Athens took control of the Chersonese, the latter, under the rule of a Thracian prince, was the only city to remain neutral; but the decisive year was 352 BC when the city conluded a treaty of amity with king Philip II of Macedonia. A great crisis exploded when Diopeithes, an Athenian mercenary captain, had in 343 BC brought Attic settlers to the town; and since Cardia was unwilling to receive them, Philip immediately sent help to the town. The king proposed to settle the dispute between the two cities by arbitration, but Athens refused.rf|1|herod_7.58_6.34_9.115_dem1_dem2 The town was destroyed by Lysimachus about 309 BCrf|2|paus_1.9, and although it was afterwards rebuilt, it never again rose to any degree of prosperity, as Lysimachia, which was built in its vicinity and peopled with the inhabitants of Cardia, became the chief town in that neighbourhood.rf|3|strab_7.7_paus_1.10_app_4.88_ptol_3.12_steph Cardia was the birthplace of Alexander's secetary Eumenesrf|4|nepos_1 and of the historian Hieronymus.rf|5|paus_1.9

References

*Curtius, Ernst; " [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=110a0711d4f714092396c0f8f0f97e0d;q1=cardia;cite1=curtius;cite1restrict=title;idno=acq1845.0005.001;view=toc The history of Greece] ", Adolphus William Ward (translator); New York, (1874)
*Smith, William (editor); " [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography] ", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064&layout=&loc=cardia "Cardia"] , London, (1854)

Notes

ent|1|herod_7.58_6.34_9.115_dem1_dem2 Herodotus, "Histories", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=7.58.1 vii. 58] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126;layout=;query=chapter%3D%23936;loc=6.34 vi. 34] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=9.115.1 ix. 115] ; Demosthenes, "Speeches", "On the Chersonese", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070&layout=&loc=8.58 58] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070&layout=&loc=8.64 64] , "On the Halonnesus", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070&layout=&loc=7.41 41] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070&layout=&loc=7.43 43] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070&layout=&loc=7.44 44] ent|2|paus_1.9 Pausanias, "Description of Greece", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160&query=1%3A9%3A8&chunk=section i. 9] ent|3|strab_7.7_paus_1.10_app_4.88_ptol_3.12_steph Strabo, "Geography", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198&query=fragment%3D%2374&word=Cardia vii. 7] ; Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160&query=section%3D%2357&chunk=section i. 10] ; Appian, "The Civil Wars", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0232&query=section%3D%23458&chunk=section iv. 88] ; Ptolemy, "Geographia", iii. 12; Stephanus of Byzantium, "Ethnica", s.v. "Cardia"ent|4|nepos_1 Cornelius Nepos, "Lives of Eminent Commanders", "Miltiades", [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm#Miltiades 1] ent|5|paus_1.9 Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160&query=1%3A9%3A8&chunk=section i. 9]

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