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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Small island POLIS south of Attica, between the CYCLADES and the Saronic Gulf (BA 57 B4), modern Agios Georgios. Herodotus uses only the ethnic, Belbinitis (8.125.2). After the Battle of SALAMIS, the Athenian TIMODEMUS insists that THEMISTOCLES has been greatly honored by SPARTA because of ATHENS, collectively, rather than his own merits. Themistocles finally remarks that “If I were from Belbina, I would not have been so honored; but neither would you, even though you are Athenian.” The tiny polis is thus used to refer to the “boondocks” (in casual American parlance). Plato relates the same story, but with Belbina replaced by SERIPHOS (Resp. 329e–330a). Belbina was a member of the DELIAN LEAGUE, appearing in the assessment decree of 425/4 BCE (IG I³ 71.I.88).

SEE ALSO: Honor; Insults; Islands; Jealousy