OLYNTHUS

ōlĭnˈthəs, ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. b.c., and Olynthus, as the head of this Chalcidian League, vigorously opposed the threats of Athens and Sparta. Athens captured the city and held it for a brief time. In 379 b.c., Sparta defeated Olynthus and dissolved the league, which was, however, re-formed after the fall of Sparta. Olynthus had been allied with Philip II of Macedon against Athens, but, fearing Philip's power, sought Athenian aid. Philip attacked, and Demosthenes in his Olynthiac orations eloquently urged his fellow Athenians to aid the threatened city. Philip destroyed (348 b.c.) the city despite Athenian aid. Excavations at Olynthus have revealed the layout of the city.

See M. Gude, A History of Olynthus (1933); D. M. Robinson et al., Excavations at Olynthus (13 vol., 1929–50).

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Potidaea: Its History and Remains
Book by John A. Alexander; University of Georgia Press, 1963
Subjects: Potidaea
...to Potidaea, have been excluded from Olynthus , IX, The Chalcidic Mint and the Coins...from the resum` of Potidaean coins in Olynthus , IX, p. 307, n. 260, and p. 279...Athena to left /Trident: a-d = Olynthus , III, pl. XX. 818, 830, 832, 833...
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Aeschines and Athenian Politics
Book by Edward M. Harris; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Aeschines, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Democracy--History, Demosthenes, Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C, Philip--Ii--King Of Macedonia--382-336 B.C
Appendix 2 The Chronology of the Olynthus Campaigns and Philips Peace Offers Both...place the beginning of Philips war with Olynthus in the archonship of Callimachus 349/48 and put the capture of Olynthus in the following archonship, that of...
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Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists
Book by Ward W. Briggs Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Classicists--Canada--Biography--Dictionaries, Classicists--United States--Biography--Dictionaries
...excavator, however, was his work at Olynthus on the Chalcidic peninsula. On the basis of his knowledge of the destruction of Olynthus by Philip the Second of Macedonia in...1953 5-19. The first report on the Olynthus excavation appeared in AJA 33 1929 53...
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Xenophon and the History of His Times
Book by John Dillery; Routledge, 1995
...themselves the cause of increasing ambition at Olynthus: as he explains, for God, it seems...allies approved sending troops against Olynthus 5.2.20 . Scholars have noted that...to defend Acanthus and Apollonia from Olynthus if in fact that obligation existed...
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A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15
Book by P. J. Stylianou; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C, History, Ancient--Historiography
...any of the forces dispatched against Olynthus in 382 and afterwards. Xenophon says that when Sparta moved against Olynthus Amyntas was in a sorry state X. H...of course the area he had given to Olynthus. Section 19. 2, n n , is an exaggeration...
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Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture
Journal article by Jeremy Hartnett; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Book)--Book reviews
...Nicholas Cahills independent study of the household assemblages of Olynthus promises another opportunity for examining domestic activities...world. See N. Cahill, Household and City Organization at Olynthus (New Haven, 2002). JEREMY HARTNETT WABASH COLLEGE
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Dying of Nostalgia: Homesickness in the Union Army during the Civil War
Journal article by David Anderson; Civil War History, Vol. 56, 2010
Subjects: Civil war--Military aspects, Louisiana State University, Soldiers--Military aspects
...the Potomac, May 17, 1862, OR, set. 1, 11:204; Alexander G. Downing, Aug. 17, 1863, in Downings Diary, ed. Olynthus B. Clark (Des Moines: Iowa State Department of History and Archives, 1916), 135; Sarah Rosetta Wakeman to her Father...
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Privacy in Antiquity
Journal article by Joseph Rykwert; Social Research, Vol. 68, 2001
Subjects: Social Sciences
to Rome we are much better informed. The Greek houses we know from Delos and Olynthus, and later from Priene and Olympia, even Athens itself, have many common characteristics. They were often two-storied, their...
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Centenary Paper: Plan and Constitution - Aristotle's Hippodamus: towards an 'ostensive' Definition of Spatial Planning
Journal article by Luigi Mazza; The Town Planning Review, Vol. 80, 2009
Subjects: Citizenship, Politics, Private property, Social classes
...position of temples and public areas was not random, but tended to respect the grid, as appears, for example, from the maps of Olynthus and Priene. The criteria for deciding the site of public spaces and buildings are a matter of pure conjecture; it is probable...
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Father Avoidant, Mother Dependent: the First Seven Years in a Child's Life in Classical Greece
Journal article by Robert Rousselle; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 33, 2005
...the gynaikonitis in the archaeological record, kitchen complexes are more easily recognized. Of forty-five excavated at Olynthus, thirty-two were located in the part of the house furthest from the street. By contrast, twenty-one of thirty-four...


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Andreas Schon
Magazine article by Kirby Gookin; Artforum International, Vol. 31, March 1993
Subjects: Landscape painting, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Schon, Andreas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...architectural foundations of ancient lands. Olynth I, 1992, depicts the eroded Hippodamian grid used to plan the Greek town of Olynthus in the 5th century B.C. The compositions for Eryma II, 1991, Tholos I and Tholos II, both 1992, are fictive hybrids...


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encyclopedia articles on: Olynthus  - 7 results

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Olynthus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLYNTHUS olin th s, ancient city of Greece, on...up in the late 5th cent. b.c., and Olynthus, as the head of this Chalcidian League...time. In 379 b.c., Sparta defeated Olynthus and dissolved the league, which was...
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KhalkidhikÍ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...oil, wine, wheat, and tobacco are produced; magnesite is mined. In antiquity the peninsula was famous for its timber. Olynthus and Potidaea were the chief towns in antiquity; Poliyiros is today the leading town and an administrative center. The peninsula...
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Callisthenes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CALLISTHENES k lis th nez, c.360 c.327 b.c., Greek historian of Olynthus; nephew of Aristotle. He accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia as the historian of the expedition. At first he compared...
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Peloponnesian War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...leader Brasidas now brilliantly surprised Athens with a campaign in NE Greece, taking (424) Athenian cities, including Olynthus and Amphipolis. Fighting went on over these even after an armistice (423) and ended in a decisive Spartan victory at Amphipolis...
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Demosthenes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...state. The Philippics (the second in 344, the third in 341) and the three Olynthiacs (349), in which he urged aid for Olynthus against Philip, were all directed toward arousing Greece against the conqueror. The third of the Philippics is generally...
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