Elaeus
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in the texts
The Histories
Port on the Chersonese from which Miltiades sailed to Lemnos.
But a great many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from Elaeus on the Chersonese to Lemnos with the Etesian winds then constantly blowing;
He would also come from Elaeus and have intercourse with women in the shrine.
there is at Elaeus in the Chersonesus the tomb of Protesilaus, and a precinct around it, which contained much treasure:
Against Aristocrates
A remaining Athenian stronghold in the Chersonese besieged by Charidemus.
but then, so far from attacking Cotys,—although he had told you in his letter that Cotys would not repel his attack,—and so far from helping you to recover the Chersonesus, he entered the service of Cotys once more, and began to beleaguer your last remaining strongholds, Crithote and Elaeus.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A town at the mouth of the Hellespont near which several Athenian ships are overtaken by the Peloponnesian fleet.
One of these, which was stranded opposite the temple of Protesilaus, they took together with its crew, and two others without their crews;
After this, with the vessels which had joined them from Abydus and the rest, amounting in all to eighty-six, they besieged Elaeus that day, and when it did not surrender, sailed back to Abydus.
Accordingly that same night, sailing as quickly as they could, and keeping close under the shore of the Chersonese, they coasted along towards Elaeus, wishing to escape from the enemy's fleet into the open sea.
Hellenica
Harbor in the Chersonese where the Athenian fleet anchors before the battle of Aegospotami.
Now the Athenians had been sailing in the wake of Lysander’s fleet, and they anchored at Elaeus, in the Chersonese, with one hundred and eighty ships.