Pallene
place · 7 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Pallene's hill · Pallenê · isthmus of Pallene
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The peninsula on which Potidaea is situated, later the site of additional Athenian siege works under Phormio.
for they did not think themselves strong enough both to keep a garrison on the isthmus, and to cross over to Pallene and raise works there;
And the Athenians in the city, hearing that Pallene had no works on it, some time after send sixteen hundred heavy-armed of their own, and Phormio, the son of Asopius, as general;
While the Corinthians were contriving how to avenge themselves on them, the Athenians, suspecting their hostility, ordered the Potidaeans, who live on the isthmus of Pallene, being colonists of the Corinthians, but their own subjects and tributaries, to throw down the wall towards Pallene, and give hostages;
On the Mysteries
Place near whose temple Andocides' ancestors defeated tyrants.
But, led by Leogoras, my own great-grandfather, and Charias, whose daughter bore my grandfather to Leogoras, your ancestors crushed the tyrants near the temple at Pallene, and came back to the land of their birth.
Apollodorus Against Polycles
The deme associated with Eucinus.
When he had no longer need of ships of war, he put on board my vessel Eucinus of Pallenê, as commander, and, enjoining upon him to give the sailors money every day, ordered me to sail for home.
On Halonnesus
A place named as territory Philip holds and treats 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.
Heracleidae
A hill and sacred site of Athene near Athens, crossed during the pursuit of Eurystheus and later named as his prophesied burial place.
Bury my body after death in its destined grave in front of the shrine of the virgin goddess at Pallene.
For as he was crossing Pallene’s hill, sacred to the goddess Athene, he caught sight of Eurystheus’ chariot, and prayed to Hebe and to Zeus, that for one single day he might grow young again and wreak his vengeance on his foes.
The Histories
The peninsula on which Potidaea stands, whose people revolt from Persia and across whose ebbed strait the Persians attempt their fatal crossing.
the rest of their allies of Pallene were also there present.
When the king had marched away past the town and the Persian fleet had taken flight from Salamis, Potidaea had openly revolted from the barbarians and so too had the rest of the people of Pallene.
When they had made their way over two-fifths of it, however, and three yet remained to cross before they could be in Pallene, there came a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before.
Hellenica
Region whose cities are vulnerable to Olynthian control.
Furthermore, since the Olynthians are in possession of Potidaea, which is on the isthmus of Pallene, be sure that the cities included within Pallene will also be subject to them.