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    Naxos

    place · 10 works · 18 mentions · 20 anchored passages

    the Naxians

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Aegean island whose revolt from the Athenian alliance was suppressed by siege, marking the first such coercion of an ally.

    and this was the first allied city that was subjugated contrary to the agreement;
    chapter 1
    There he found a merchant vessel putting to sea for Ionia, and having gone on board, was carried by a storm to the armament of the Athenians, that was blockading Naxos.
    chapter 1
    Meanwhile the Sicels came down from the highlands in great numbers to assist against the Messanians;
    chapter 4

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Aegean island conquered by Pisistratus, where he places Athenian hostages and installs his ally Lygdamis as ruler.

    (He had conquered Naxos too and put Lygdamis in charge.
    chapter 1
    The Athenians did, and by this means Pisistratus gained Athens for the third time, rooting his sovereignty in a strong guard and revenue collected both from Athens and from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the Athenians who remained and did not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos.
    chapter 1
    When their enemies had brought their ships over from Chios to Naxos, it was a fortified city that they attacked, and for four months they besieged it.
    chapter 5

    On the Peace with SpartaClassical · Greek

    An island controlled by Athens during the period of prosperity under the Peace of Nicias.

    we controlled the Chersonese, Naxos, and over two-thirds of Euboea:
    on the peace with sparta

    Against the Stepmother for PoisoningClassical · Greek

    The destination the speaker's father was sailing to when he was poisoned at the supper in Peiraeus.

    Later, Philoneos happened to have a sacrifice to perform to Zeus Ctesius in Peiraeus, while my father was on the point of leaving for Naxos.
    against the stepmother for poisoning

    Against AristocratesClassical · Greek

    Location of a naval victory associated with Chabrias.

    But today, men of Athens, it is commonly said that Corcyra was captured by Timotheus, that the Spartan battalion was cut to pieces by Iphicrates, that the naval victory off Naxos was won by Chabrias.
    against aristocrates

    Against TimocratesClassical · Greek

    The location associated with Chabrias’ commemorated sea-fight.

    or, from the several states of the Alliance, Such-and-such a city crowned the People by whom they were delivered, or The liberated Euboeans, for example, crowned the People, or again Conon from the sea-fight with the Lacedaemonians, Chabrias from the sea-fight off Naxos.
    against timocrates

    On the CrownClassical · Greek

    Island associated with Aristratus in the comparison.

    and now, by a strange coincidence, those thorough-going enemies of Athens, Aristratus at Naxos and Aristolaus at Thasos, are bringing the friends of Athens to trial, while at Athens itself Aeschines is accusing Demosthenes.
    on the crown

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Greek island targeted in the Persian campaign.

    I, at least, heard a Median man saying that the Persians agree to none of the things told among the Greeks, but say that Darius sent Datis and Artaphernes against Naxos and Eretria, and that they, taking the cities, came to the king.
    oration 11

    Hymn 1 to DionysusClassical · Greek

    A place named among the disputed locations of Dionysus' birth.

    and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn;
    hymn 1 to dionysus

    EuthyphroClassical · Greek

    An island where Euthyphro's family was farming when the hired workman committed the killing that led to the murder case.

    In this case, the man who was killed was a hired workman of mine, and when we were farming at Naxos, he was working there on our land.
    euthyphro