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The Origin of Tyranny

Note 305 — Chapter II · Athens

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Cp. e.g. Hdt. V. 23, 126 (Myrcinus on Strymon called Thracian), VII. 75, 115; Aristoph. Ach. 273 (“the Thracian daughter of Strymodorus”); Diod. XII. 68. 1, “this city (Ennea Hodoi on the Strymon) Aristagoras the Milesian had tried previously to settle; ... but he had met his death, and the occupants had been driven out by the Thracians” (about 500 B.C.); cp. ibid. XI. 70. 5; Plut. Cimon, 7, “Eion ... a city in Thrace on the Strymon.” Cp. Suid. s.v. χρυσὸς Κολοφώνιος; Tzetzes ad Lycoph. Cass. V. 417 (Hill, Sources Gk. Hist. p. 87). For Pangaion see Hdt. VII. 112, “Mt Pangaion, in which are gold and silver mines, which are worked by ... most of all the Satrai,” with which cp. ibid. 110, where the Satrai occur in a list of Thracian tribes.

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