Anthemus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Bottiaea · Crestonia · Mygdonia · Pieria
in the texts
Second Philippic
A territory once claimed by Macedonian kings and given by Philip to the Olynthians.
Can you not imagine, I said, addressing the Messenians, how annoyed the Olynthians would have been to hear a word said against Philip in the days when he was handing over to them Anthemus, to which all the former kings of Macedonia laid claim, when he was making them a present of Potidaea, expelling the Athenian settlers, and when he had taken upon himself the responsibility of a quarrel with us a …
History of the Peloponnesian War
A cluster of Macedonian regions—Bottiaea, Pieria, Mygdonia, Crestonia, and Anthemus—named both in the account of the kingdom's formation and in the account of the Thracian ravaging.
They also drove out of the country called Bottia, the Bottiaeans, who now live on the confines of the Chalcidians;
and beyond the Axius, as far as the Strymon, they occupy what is called Mygdonia, having expelled the Edonians from it.
Beyond these they did not march, namely, into Bottiaea and Pieria, but stayed to lay waste Mygdonia, Crestonia, and Anthemus.