Lade
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Leros · Corycus · Panormus · Tichiussa
in the texts
The Histories
Island proposed by Hecataeus as a fortified refuge for Aristagoras, an alternative he ultimately did not take.
Hecataeus the historian, son of Hegesander, was of the opinion that they should set forth to neither of these places, but that Aristagoras should build a fortress in the island of Leros and reside there, if he were driven from Miletus.
When they came to that place and consulted, they resolved not to collect a land army to meet the Persians, but to leave the Milesians to defend their walls themselves, and to man their fleet to the last ship and gather as quickly as possible at Lade to fight for Miletus at sea.
When they drew near and met each other in battle, which of the Ionians were brave men or cowards then in that sea-fight I cannot exactly say;
History of the Peloponnesian War
A cluster of islands and coastal sites around Miletus — Corycus, Lade, Leros, Panormus, and Tichiussa — that serve as waypoints, observation posts, and battle sites in the Miletus campaign.
The same summer the Athenians, who were with their twenty ships at Lade for the observation of Miletus, having made a descent at Panormus in the Milesian territory, slew Chalcideus, the Lacedaemonian commander, who had come against them with a few men, and sailing across three days after, erected a trophy;
The Athenians sailed up close after them with nineteen ships, and on the Milesians not admitting them, came to anchor at the adjacent island of Lade.
When Alcibiades therefore had gone on horseback to Tichiussa, in the Milesian territory, to which part of the gulf they had sailed and brought to for the night, they heard the particulars of the battle.