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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
this, Pausanias followed Herodotus, who tells us that the Phoenician colonists of Thasos discovered wonderful gold mines there, which the historian had visited （Hdt. 6.46ff.）, and that they had founded a sanctuary of Herakles in the island （Hdt. 2.44）. Herodotus also （Hdt. 7.91） represents Cilix as a son of the Phoenician Agenor, and he tells us （Hdt. 4.147） that Cadmus, son of Agenor, left a Phoenician colony in the island of Thera. Diodorus Siculus reports （Diod. 5.59.2ff.） that Cadmus, son of Agenor, planted a Phoenician colony in Rhodes, and that the descendants of the colonists continued to hold the hereditary priesthood of Poseidon, whose worship had been instituted by Cadmus. He mentions also that in the sanctuary of Athena at Lindus, in Rhodes, there was a tripod of ancient style bearing a Phoenician inscription. The statement has been confirmed in rec
Aristotle, Politics, Book 4, section 1290b (search)
oligarchy, because both the handsome and the tall are few in number. Nevertheless it is not enough to define these constitutions even by wealth and free birth only; but inasmuch as there are more elements than one both in democracy and in oligarchy, we must add the further distinction that neither is it a democracy if the freei.e. those of citizen birth. being few govern the majority who are not of free birth, as for instance at Apollonia on the Ionian Gulf and at Thera （for in each of these cities the offices of honor were filled by the specially noble families who had been the first settlers of the colonies, and these were few out of many）, nor is it a democracyPerhaps the Greek should be altered here to give ‘an oligarchy.’ if the rich rule because they are in a majority, as in ancient times at Colophon （for there the majority of the population owned large property before the war against the Lydians took place）,
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 9 (search)
ns, Phocians, and Locrians. The other states sent infantry. This was the Lacedaemonian confederacy. That of Athens comprised the Chians, Lesbians, Plateans, the Messenians in Naupactus, most of the Acarnanians, the Corcyraeans, Zacynthians, and some tributary cities in the following countries, viz., Caria upon the sea with her Dorian neighbors, Ionia, the Hellespont, the Thracian towns, the islands lying between Peloponnese and Crete towards the east, and all the Cyclades except Melos and Thera. Of these, ships were furnished by Chios, Lesbos, and Corcyra, infantry and money by the rest. Such were the allies of either party and their resources for the war.