Cnidus
place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Cnidian
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Carian coastal city that revolts to the Peloponnesians and becomes a fleet base.
The same winter, Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian, having sailed from the Peloponnese with ten Thurian ships under the command of Dorieus son of Diagoras, and two colleagues, one Laconian and one Syracusan, sailed into port at Cnidus, which had now revolted at the instigation of Tissaphernes.
After this the Peloponnesians put into Cnidus, and the seven and twenty ships from Caunus having effected a junction with them, they sailed with the whole number, and erected a trophy on Syme, and then came to anchor again at Cnidus.
The Athenians, on hearing the particulars of the engagement, having sailed with all their ships from Samos to Syme, made no attack on the fleet at Cnidus, or that on them, but took their naval stores, which were at Syme, and after touching at Lorymi on the continent, sailed back to Samos.
Protrepticus
City where the famous Cnidian Aphrodite statues (by Praxiteles, and another in stone) stood and became objects of erotic devotion.
And Praxiteles, as Posidippus makes clear in his work on Cnidus, when fashioning the statue of Cnidian Aphrodite, made her like in form to Cratine his mistress, that the wretches might have Praxiteles' mistress to worship.
another man fell in love with this one and united with the stone — Posidippus records it, the former in his work on Cyprus, the latter in his work on Cnidus.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The site of the naval battle at which Dicaeogenes (II.), commanding the Athenian ship Paralus, was killed in action.
Dicaeogenes, having sailed out as commander of the Paralus, was killed in action at Cnidus.
They themselves died fighting for their country;
Evagoras
Site of the naval battle in which Evagoras' forces played a decisive role.
and when he was the ally of the king, he made himself so much more serviceable than the others that, in the opinion of all, the forces he contributed to the naval battle at Cnidus were the largest, and as the result of this battle, while the king became master of all Asia, the Lacedaemonians instead of ravaging the continent were compelled to fight for their own land, and the Greeks, in place of s …
Panegyricus
A city marking one end of the stretch of Greek-settled Asian coastline cited as a ready base for the campaign.
From Cnidus to Sinope the coast of Asia is settled by Hellenes, and these we need not to persuade to go to war—all we have to do is not to restrain them.