Sinope
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Sinope the figure
Sinopeans · Men of Sinope · territory of Sinope
in the texts
Anabasis
Greek city whose people founded Trapezus as a colony.
From there they marched two stages, seven parasangs, and reached the sea at Trapezus, an inhabited Greek city on the Euxine Sea, a colony of the Sinopeans in the territory of Colchis.
When the Sinopeans and Heracleots heard it, they sent to Timasion and urged him to take in charge, for a fee, the matter of getting the army to sail away.
while still others suspected that the real purpose of his speech was to prevent the Greeks from going by land and so doing some harm to the territory of the Sinopeans.
Panegyricus
A city marking the northern end of the stretch of Greek-settled Asian coastline cited as a ready base for the campaign.
From Cnidus to Sinope the coast of Asia is settled by Hellenes, and these we need not to persuade to go to war—all we have to do is not to restrain them.
To Philip
A city or region named as the northern endpoint in the proposed Asian territorial acquisition.
above all, if you undertake to conquer the whole empire of the King, or, at any rate, to wrest from it a vast extent of territory and sever from it—to use a current phrase—“Asia from Cilicia to Sinope”;