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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

A POLIS in northwest Greece (modern Arta), controlling an area north of the gulf to which it gave its name (BA 54 C3). Ambracia was founded by CORINTH in the seventh century BCE (Strabo 10.2.8/C452), and the population were DORIANS, as Herodotus notes (8.45). The Ambraciots (Herodotus uses only the city‐ethnic, Ἀμπρακιῶται) sent seven ships to join the Greek fleet at SALAMIS in 480 BCE; Herodotus comments that they and the LEUCADIANS came from farthest away, other than a single ship from CROTON in ITALY (8.45, 47). The following summer, five hundred Ambraciot HOPLITES fought with the Greeks at PLATAEA, where they lined up opposite the SACAE (9.28.5, 31.4).

SEE ALSO: Colonization; Ethnicity; Hellenic League; Ionian Gulf