Strymon
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
river Strymon · Strymon's flood · the Strymon
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
River in Thrace on which Amphipolis and Eion are situated.
The same winter, Brasidas with his allies Thrace-ward marched against Amphipolis, the Athenian colony on the river Strymon.
while Brasidas sent despatches to Lacedaemon, begging them to send him additional forces, and himself prepared for building triremes in the Strymon.
Amphipolis, because, as the river Strymon flows round it on both sides, with a view to enclosing it, he ran a long wall across from river to river, and built the town so as to be conspicuous both towards the sea and towards the land.
Against Ctesiphon
The river beside Eion, used to locate the old battle against the Medes.
Far off by Strymon’s flood, fought with the sons of the Medes.
There were certain men in those days, fellow citizens, who endured much toil and underwent great dangers at the river Strymon, and conquered the Medes in battle.
The Histories
A river in Thrace whose upper reaches and mouth feature in both the lost-horses episode and the disputed embarkation tale.
when Xerxes came in his march from Athens to Eion on the Strymon, he travelled no farther than that by land, but committed his army to Hydarnes to be led to the Hellespont.
The Paeonians had given it to the Thracians, and when Xerxes demanded it back, they said that the horses had been carried off from pasture by the Thracians of the hills who dwelt about the headwaters of the Strymon.