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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Thracian tribe living just north of the Hellespontine CHERSONESE (BA 51 H3), the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. According to the story Herodotus relates, the Apsinthians indirectly instigated Athenian settlement of the Chersonese by making war upon the DOLONCIANS, another Thracian tribe (6.34.1). The Doloncians sought help and ended up bringing MILTIADES THE ELDER from ATHENS to rule them; he walled off the isthmus in order to keep the Apsinthians out (6.36.2–37.1; Sears 2013, 239–43). Near the end of the Histories, the Apsinthians capture the Persian OEOBAZUS OF CARDIA, who had escaped from the Athenian siege of SESTOS. They sacrifice him to their god PLEISTORUS and kill his retinue “in a different manner” (9.119.1).

SEE ALSO: Human Sacrifice; Thrace; Walls