Chalcidians
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the Chalcidians · Chalcidians of Euboea · Chalcidice · Chalcis · the Chalcidian envoys · the Chalcidian people · the Thrace-ward Chalcidians · the men of Chalcis
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Thraceward Greek people who join Potidaea's revolt against Athens and, at Perdiccas's urging, consolidate their settlements at Olynthus.
while the Chalcidians, and the allies beyond the isthmus, and the two hundred cavalry with Perdiccas, should remain at Olynthus;
then indeed, at that favourable moment, they revolted with the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans, having entered into a league together.
And Perdiccas persuaded the Chalcidians to abandon and throw down their cities on the sea, and remove inland to Olynthus, and make that one city a place of strength for themselves.
The Histories
Population of Chalcis on Euboea, defeated by Athens alongside the Boeotians, with their 'horse-breeders' captured and later ransomed.
Horse-breeders was the name given to the men of substance among the Chalcidians.
When this force then had been ingloriously scattered, the Athenians first marched against the Chalcidians to punish them.
On that same day the Athenians crossed to Euboea where they met the Chalcidians too in battle, and after overcoming them as well, they left four thousand tenant farmers on the lands of the horse-breeders.
Against Ctesiphon
People of Chalcis implicated in Euboean policy and the alliance arranged through Demosthenes.
and the second service for which the pay came to the man who was to move the alliance, was to provide that the Chalcidians should not sit in the synod at Athens;
and Demosthenes, the tyrant-hater, as he pretends to be, who, Ctesiphon says, speaks what is best, bartered away the opportunities of the city, and in his motion for the alliance provided that we were to aid the Chalcidians, stipulating in return for this a mere phrase;
but the membership in the synod and the contributions of money, the sources of strength for the coming war, he sold completely, in fairest words proposing most shameful deeds, and leading you on by his talk, telling how our city must first furnish aid to any Greeks who might need it from time to time, but provide for their alliance afterward, after giving them aid.
Letters
The Christian community at Chalcis, commended for enduring persecution and heresy.
To the Chalcidians.
For you stripped first in the arena of piety, and beat off many trials of heretical wrestlings, and endured the great burning heat of the trials — both you who are the chief men of the church, to whom the service of the altar has been entrusted, and the individuals of the people, and the more powerful.
Wherefore we beg you, what you do and will do, to hold fast to one another, and that you who have been entrusted with the care of souls should hold together the individuals, and cherish them as beloved children, while the people preserve toward you the reverence and honor owed to fathers, so that in the good order of the church both your strength may be preserved, and the firmness of the faith in …
On the False Embassy
People or region around Olynthus affected by the war and later losses.
Before the war had lasted a year they had lost every town in Chalcidice through treachery, and Philip could no longer pay any attention to the traitors, and hardly knew what to capture first.
At the time when their cavalry was only four hundred strong, and their whole force numbered no more than five thousand, for there was then no coalition of all the Chalcidians, they were invaded by the Lacedaemonians with a large force, both naval and military;
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Greek people who refused to surrender Nauplius.
It is said that the Chalcidians refused to deliver up Nauplius to the Grecians, and the reason alleged was his having cleared himself of the charges made against him.