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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

City at the southern end of the ATHOS (or Acte) peninsula in northern Greece (BA 51 C4). Herodotus lists Acrothoon (later authors write Acrothooi) as one of the CITIES whose inhabitants XERXES “set out to make islanders instead of mainlanders” when he ordered the construction of the Athos CANAL c. 483 BCE (7.22.3). The other cities are CLEONAE, DIUM, OLOPHYXUS, and THYSSUS. This same group appears in THUCYDIDES—who also mentions “the King’s canal”—in his account of the Spartan general Brasidas’ campaign in the region in 424/3 (4.109.2–4). Thucydides says their inhabitants were “bilingual BARBARIANS,” and STRABO (7 F15a Radt) attributes their settlement to PELASGIANS from LEMNOS. Acrothoon was presumably a member of the DELIAN LEAGUE, though its name does not appear in the Tribute Lists themselves.

SEE ALSO: Athenian Empire; Sane