Gigonus or Gigonos (Ancient Greek: Γίγωνος) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Lipaxus, Combreia, Lisaea, Campsa, Smila, Aeneia—located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene, where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.[1]

Subsequently the city belonged to the Delian League since it appears on a tribute list to Athens in 434/3 BCE.[2] Gigonus is also cited by Thucydides as the place where the Athenians, under the command of Callias, established a camp in the year 432 BCE when they were heading against Potidaea.[3]

The site of Gigonus is located near modern Nea Kallikrateia.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.123.
  2. ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 828. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  3. ↑ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 1.61.
  4. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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