. USTANTf^NOPOLIS ^^ ^ P~R0-P-0^N T I S S E A O F .1/ A R MARA. Walker £r Boutall >c. Plan of Byzantium and Constantlnopolls. Bosporus, founded by the Megarians, 658,is said to have derived its name from Byzas,the leader of the colony and the son of Posei-don. It was said that the oracle of Apollo toldthem to build their city opposite 1 the city of theblind, Clialcedon, whose founders hadblindly neglected the better site of Byzantium(Hdt. iv. 144 ; Strab. p. 320; Tac. Ann. xii. 68 ;Diod. iv. 49). It was situated
. USTANTf^NOPOLIS ^^ ^ P~R0-P-0^N T I S S E A O F .1/ A R MARA. Walker £r Boutall >c. Plan of Byzantium and Constantlnopolls. Bosporus, founded by the Megarians, 658,is said to have derived its name from Byzas,the leader of the colony and the son of Posei-don. It was said that the oracle of Apollo toldthem to build their city opposite 1 the city of theblind, Clialcedon, whose founders hadblindly neglected the better site of Byzantium(Hdt. iv. 144 ; Strab. p. 320; Tac. Ann. xii. 68 ;Diod. iv. 49). It was situated on two hills,was forty stadia in circumference, and its acro-polis stood on the site of the present favourable position, commanding as it didthe entrance to the Euxine, soon rendered it aplace of great commercial importance. It wastaken by Pausanias after the battle of Plataea, 479; and it was alternately in the posses-sion of the Athenians and Lacedaemoniansduring the Peloponnesian war. The Lacedae-monians were expelled from Byzantium byThrasybulus in 390, and the city remained inde-pendent for some years. I
Size: 1590px × 1572px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidclassicaldic, bookyear1894
