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Often appears with: xerxes canal tradition · strymonic gulf cities · mount athos · geography and the description of places · cities and their founding
Usually: description (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Strabo continues northward along the Thracian coasts and gulfs, detailing Mount Athos’ height and alleged canal, nearby cities and harbours, and concluding with Strymonic sites and boundaries between Macedonia and Thrace.
19. Anciently diviners practised the art of music. EPIT. 20. After Dium follow the mouths of the Haliacmon; then Pydna, Methone, Alorus, and the rivers Erigon and Ludias. The Ludias flows from Triclari, through the Oresti and the Pellæan country (Pelagonia): leaving the city on the left it falls into the Axius. The Ludias is navigable up the stream to Pella 120 stadia. Methone is situated in the middle, about 40 sta…