Spartolus
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the territory of Olynthus
in the texts
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
A site in the territory of Olynthus where Menexenus (I.), the speaker's grandfather, died commanding the Athenian cavalry.
), his son, in command of the cavalry at Spartolus in the territory of Olynthus;
History of the Peloponnesian War
A town in Bottiaea targeted by the Athenian expedition, near which the Chalcidians rout the Athenian force.
On arriving under the walls of Spartolus in Bottiaea, they destroyed the corn;
The heavy-armed of the Chalcidians, and some auxiliaries with them, were defeated by the Athenians, and retired into Spartolus;
Hellenica
Place toward which routed troops flee after the Olynthian victory.
And when this happened, the troops about him at once gave way, and in fact no one stood his ground any longer, but all fled, some for Spartolus, others for Acanthus, others to Apollonia, and the majority to Potidaea.