Olynthus
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Chalcidian city inland from Potidaea, strengthened by Perdiccas as a stronghold and used as a staging point for the failed relief of Potidaea.
while the Chalcidians, and the allies beyond the isthmus, and the two hundred cavalry with Perdiccas, should remain at Olynthus;
And Perdiccas persuaded the Chalcidians to abandon and throw down their cities on the sea, and remove inland to Olynthus, and make that one city a place of strength for themselves.
Now the Potidaeans and the Peloponnesians with Aristeus, in expectation of the Athenians, were encamped towards Olynthus, on the isthmus, and had established their market outside the city.
On the False Embassy
Captured city whose people appear as victims in the Satyrus and banquet narratives.
And yet Apollophanes was one of the men who had slain Philip’s own brother Alexander.
When the drinking began, Xenophron introduced an Olynthian woman,—a handsome, but a freeborn and, as the event proved, a modest girl.
After Philip had taken Olynthus, he was holding Olympian games, and had invited all sorts of artists to the religious celebration and the festival.
Orations
Region in whose territory Stageira lies.
Hearing this, Philip was pleased and said, "Not in vain, Alexander, do we hold Aristotle in such high esteem, and granted him the rebuilding of his native city, Stageira, which is in the territory of Olynthus.
And I sometimes used to count Aristotle blessed, who, being a Stagirite — and Stagira was a village of the territory of Olynthus — when Olynthus had been taken, by his association with Alexander and Philip brought it about that the place was settled again, and I used to say that he alone had this good fortune, of becoming the founder of his fatherland.
Hellenica
Powerful city on the Thracian coast leading an expanding confederacy.
Be not at all despondent, gentlemen, because the Lacedaemonians are in possession of the Acropolis;
And when they arrived in the district of Thebes, they encamped outside the city, near the gymnasium.
To be sure, almost all of you know that Olynthus is the largest of the cities on the coast of Thrace.
On the Embassy
A Greek city taken by Philip, whose capture resulted in the seizure of Athenian citizens and prompted a new embassy to Philip.
Now about the same time Olynthus was taken, and many of our citizens were captured there, among them Iatrocles, brother of Ergochares, and Eueratus, son of Strombichus.
First Olynthiac
The Chalcidian city whose defense is central to the proposed Athenian intervention.
But if Philip takes Olynthus, who is to prevent his marching hither?
but when it comes to a composition such as he would gladly make with Olynthus, the tables are turned.
But if we leave these men too in the lurch, Athenians, and then Olynthus is crushed by Philip, tell me what is to prevent him from marching henceforward just where he pleases.
First Philippic
A city named as a possible target of Philip's military movement.
All this is a necessary provision against Philip’s sudden raids from Macedonia against Thermopylae, the Chersonese, Olynthus, or where he will.
On Halonnesus
A city named as an example of territory taken and then treated by Philip as his own.
and in the same way at Olynthus and Apollonia and Pallene he is in possession of his own property, not that of others.
Second Olynthiac
A Chalcidian city threatened by Philip and named as the immediate object of Athenian assistance.
I urge you strongly to send help to Olynthus, and the best and quickest method that anyone can suggest will please me most.
Yes, the power and sovereignty of Macedonia is indeed, as an adjunct, no slight contribution, as you found it when on your side against Olynthus in the days of Timotheus.
Second Philippic
The Chalcidian city represented by the Olynthians, used as a warning about accepting Philip's gifts.
Nevertheless, said I, after a brief enjoyment of other men’s territory, they have long been robbed by Philip of their own, expelled with contumely, not merely vanquished but betrayed, bought and sold by their own country-men.
Can you not imagine, I said, addressing the Messenians, how annoyed the Olynthians would have been to hear a word said against Philip in the days when he was handing over to them Anthemus, to which all the former kings of Macedonia laid claim, when he was making them a present of Potidaea, expelling the Athenian settlers, and when he had taken upon himself the responsibility of a quarrel with us a …
Third Olynthiac
The Chalcidian city whose conflict with Philip occasions the speech.
What remains then, men of Athens, but to help them with all your power and energy?
for here was a powerful state, reconciled to us and watching for him to give them an opening.
Third Philippic
A Chalcidian city destroyed after internal pro-Philip betrayal.
Which betrayed the cavalry, whose betrayal sealed the doom of Olynthus?
A fine clemency he showed to the Olynthians, who voted Lasthenes their master of the horse and banished Apollonides!
Many things could be named by the Olynthians today, which would have saved them from destruction if only they had then foreseen them.
The Histories
A city held by the Bottiaeans, besieged and captured by Artabazus and handed over to the Chalcidians.
Thereupon Artabazus laid siege to Potidaea, and suspecting that Olynthus too was plotting revolt from the king, he laid siege to it also.
Panegyricus
A Greek city currently besieged by the Lacedaemonians.
and now they are laying siege to Olynthus and Phlius: