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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

A POLIS on the Hellespontine CHERSONESE, between CARDIA and PACTYE in the middle of the isthmus (BA 51 H3). Herodotus mentions Agora by name only as XERXES’ invasion force marches through in 480 BCE (7.58.3). It may have been founded by MILTIADES THE ELDER with Athenian colonists in the late sixth century when he constructed a WALL across the peninsula (6.36–38). “Agora” is the Greek word for “marketplace,” which probably reflects the settlement’s importance as a center for TRADE with the Thracian hinterland. The city‐ethnic Chersonēsitai (Χερσονησῖται) seems to refer to inhabitants of Agora as well as the peninsula as a whole (cf. 4.137.1, 9.118.2; Steph. Byz. s.v. Χερρόνησος (Χ 40) = Hecataeus BNJ 1 F163). They appear on the Athenian Tribute Lists as “Chersonēsitai from Agora” (IG I³ 282.B1.11–14).

SEE ALSO: Agora; Athens; Colonization; Delian League; Hellespont; Thrace