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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Region in northern Greece (BA 50 B3), also referred to as Emathia. Herodotus places Bottiaea between the regions of MYGDONIA (7.123.3) and MACEDONIA (7.127), the AXIUS RIVER forming its boundary with the former and the mouth(s) of the HALIACMON and LYDIAS separating it from the latter. Bottiaea became part of the heartland of the Macedonian kingdom in the classical and Hellenistic periods; the Bottiaeans themselves were driven out at an earlier period (Thuc. 2.99.3, who writes Bottia) and migrated to the Chalcidice region; this latter area is thus referred to by some ancient authors as Bottikē (BA 50 D4; Flensted‐Jensen 1995), though Herodotus does not do so. Herodotus includes the Bottiaeans in the list of peoples in EUROPE who contributed troops to XERXES’ invasion force in 480 BCE (7.185.2). Until that year, the Bottiaeans also inhabited the city of OLYNTHUS; but in the winter of 480/79, the Persian general ARTABAZUS besieged and captured Olynthus, slaughtered the population, and handed the city over to the Chalcidian Greeks (8.127).

SEE ALSO: Chalcidians in Thrace; Critobulus of Torone; Ichnae; Pella