Harpagion

Town of the ancient Troad

Harpagion (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγιον) was a town of the ancient Troad, or of Mysia mentioned by Thucydides.^[1] Its territory was called Harpageia (τὰ Ἁρπαγεῖα)^[2] or Harpagia (Ἁρπάγια).^[3] It lay between Priapus and Cyzicus, near the mouth of the river Granicus. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in tribute records of Athens between the years 448/7 and 429/8 BCE.^[4] Thucydides writes that three days after the Battle of Cynossema, during the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians captured eight ships coming from Byzantium at Harpagion and Priapus.^[1]

According to some myths Ganymede was snatched from there.^[5]^[6]

Its site is located in Asiatic Turkey.^[7]^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 8.107.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p. 587. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Troad". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 979. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Strabo, Geography, §13.1.11
^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §A124.9
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Harpageia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.