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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Greek settlement on the north coast of the PROPONTIS (BA 52 B3), founded by SAMOS (Steph. Byz. s.v. Βισάνθη (Β 104)), usually identified with modern Tekirdag. Herodotus describes Bisanthe as “on the HELLESPONT” (7.137.3)—interesting for his conception of GEOGRAPHY, but perhaps also reflecting the ATHENIAN EMPIRE’s definition of the “Hellespontine District” (which stretched all the way to BYZANTIUM). Herodotus only names Bisanthe in passing, as the place where the Spartan envoys Nicolaus and Aneristus were seized by the Thracian king SITALCES and taken to ATHENS for execution in 430 BCE, the latest event explicitly referred to in the Histories.

SEE ALSO: Aneristus son of Sperthias; Date of Composition; Peloponnesian War; Thrace