Clazomenae
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Clazomenian · the Clazomenians
in the texts
De Anima
City whose people deified Hermotimus after his death.
such as Hermotimus, to whom the people of Clazomenae dedicated a temple when he was dead;
The citizens of Clazomenae console Hermotimus with a temple.
Hellenica
A city to which Alcibiades and Mantitheus escape from Sardis, and from which Alcibiades later rejoins the fleet.
There Alcibiades joined them, coming from Clazomenae with five triremes and a dispatch boat.
Thirty days later, however, Alcibiades, together with Mantitheus, who had been taken prisoner in Caria, provided themselves with horses and made their escape from Sardis by night to Clazomenae.
King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros;
Antidosis
The city associated with Anaxagoras in his identifying epithet.
and Pericles studied under two of the sophists, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and Damon, the latter in his day reputed to be the wisest among the Athenians.
Apology
City of origin of the philosopher Anaxagoras.
Do you think you are accusing Anaxagoras, my dear Meletus, and do you so despise these gentlemen and think they are so unversed in letters as not to know, that the books of Anaxagoras the Clazomenian are full of such utterances?
Parmenides
City in Ionia, home of Cephalus and his philosophically-minded companions.
When we came from our home at Clazomenae to Athens, we met Adeimantus and Glaucon in the market-place.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Ionian city on the coast near Chios, target of an unsuccessful Peloponnesian assault.
Having staid there on account of the winds eight days, all the property of the Clazomenians that had been secretly stowed away there, they partly ravaged and consumed, and partly put on board their ships;
And taking a squadron consisting of ten Peloponnesian and as many Chian ships, he put out to sea, and after attacking Pteleum without taking it, coasted along to Clazomenae, and commanded those of them who favoured the Athenian cause to remove inland to Daphnus, and to join their party.
When they did not listen to it, he made an attack on the town, which was unwalled, and not being able to take it, sailed away before a strong gale himself to Phocaea and Cuma, while the rest of the ships put into the islands adjacent to Clazomenae, namely, Marathussa Pele, and Drymussa.