Dicaea (Thrace) Explained
Dicaea or Dikaia (grc|Δικαία or Δίκαια), also called Dikaiopolis (grc|Δικαιόπολις)[1] was a Greek[2] port town on the coast of ancient Thrace on Lake Bistonis, in the country of the Bistones.
Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that it took its name from the Dicaeus (grc|Δίκαιος) who was son of Poseidon.[3]
The place appears to have decayed at an early period.[4] [5] In the 19th century, William Hazlitt wrote that its site was that of the later Stabulum Diomedis ('Diomedes's stable'), where Theodoric Strabo died in 481 CE.[6] However, modern scholarship rejects this identification and identifies Stabulum Diomedis with Tirida.
The site of Dicaea is located about west of Mese.
See also
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Notes and References
- https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/1067 Suda Encyclopedia, §del.1067
- An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index
- https://topostext.org/work/241#D230.14 Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §D230.14
- The Histories by Herodotus, Carolyn Dewald, and Robin Waterfield, 2008, p. 442: "... bed of the Lisus, Xerxes passed the Greek towns of Maronea, Dicaea, and Abdera. His route also took him past a ...";
- Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 27;
- Marcellinus Comes, 481.1.
