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Plegra is a peninsula of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] (more specifically in [[Chalkidiki|Chalkidike]]) in modern [[Greece]]; it is an ancient name for [[Pallene, Chalcidice|Pallene]] in historical [[Thrace]], the latter as per the [[toponymy]] of the ancients; Pallene – and Phlegra – is most commonly called nowadays ''[[Kassandra, Chalkidiki|Kassandra]]'', or ''Peninsula of Kassandra''.<ref name=LSJphlegra/> |
Plegra is a peninsula of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] (more specifically in [[Chalkidiki|Chalkidike]]) in modern [[Greece]]; it is an ancient name for [[Pallene, Chalcidice|Pallene]] in historical [[Thrace]], the latter as per the [[toponymy]] of the ancients; Pallene – and Phlegra – is most commonly called nowadays ''[[Kassandra, Chalkidiki|Kassandra]]'', or ''Peninsula of Kassandra''.<ref name=LSJphlegra/> |
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[[Strabo]] wrote{{citation needed|date=March 2014|reason=Strabo text (or other) exact passage needed; not the already cited Geographica 7.fr25,27, wherein no such mention of Campania, etc is made. See also Scholia Graeca in Aristophanem 824.}} that Phlegrae was also called the [[Phlegraean Plain]]{{citation needed|date=March 2014|reason=As per last cn, sources are needed that the ancients said field/place corresponds to or also to the Italian volcanic area. Presence of wikilink will remain so that a connection will remain, at least until a clarification and verification is made possible}} ({{lang|grc|Φλέγρας πεδίον}}, ''{{transl|grc|Phlegras pedion}}'', or {{lang|grc|Φλεγραία πλάξ}}, ''{{transl|grc|Phlegraia plax}}'')<ref name=LSJphlegra>{{LSJ|fle/gra|φλέγρα|ref}}.</ref> in [[Campania]] near [[Cumae]]. |
[[Strabo]] wrote<!-- {{citation needed|date=March 2014|reason=Strabo text (or other) exact passage needed; not the already cited Geographica 7.fr25,27, wherein no such mention of Campania, etc is made. See also Scholia Graeca in Aristophanem 824.}} that Phlegrae was also called the [[Phlegraean Plain]]{{citation needed|date=March 2014|reason=As per last cn, sources are needed that the ancients said field/place corresponds to or also to the Italian volcanic area. Presence of wikilink will remain so that a connection will remain, at least until a clarification and verification is made possible}} --> that the Phlegraiean Field ({{lang|grc|Φλέγρας πεδίον}}, ''{{transl|grc|Phlegras pedion}}'', or {{lang|grc|Φλεγραία πλάξ}}, ''{{transl|grc|Phlegraia plax}}'')<ref name=LSJphlegra>{{LSJ|fle/gra|φλέγρα|ref}}.</ref> or Phlegra was in [[Campania]] near [[Cumae]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/strabo/5d*.html |title=Strabo: The Geography, Book V Chapter 4 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1923 |website=University of Chicago |publisher=Loeb Classical Library edition |access-date= January 8, 2017|quote=}}</ref> |
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He writes that the Giants who survived, were driven out by [[Heracles]], finding refuge with their mother in [[Santa Maria di Leuca|Leuca]],<ref name=Leuca>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=William|authorlink=Sir William Smith|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emxHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167|year=1865|publisher=Little, Brown & Company|page=167|quote= Its site is clearly marked by an ancient church still called ''Sta. Maria di Leuca'' [...] Strabo tells us that the inhabitants of Leuca showed there a spring of fetid water}}</ref> a town now in Italy's 'heel'. A fountain there had smelly water the locals claimed to be from the [[ichor]] of the giants.<ref name=Leuca/> |
He writes that the Giants who survived, were driven out by [[Heracles]], finding refuge with their mother in [[Santa Maria di Leuca|Leuca]],<ref name=Leuca>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=William|authorlink=Sir William Smith|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emxHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167|year=1865|publisher=Little, Brown & Company|page=167|quote= Its site is clearly marked by an ancient church still called ''Sta. Maria di Leuca'' [...] Strabo tells us that the inhabitants of Leuca showed there a spring of fetid water}}</ref> a town now in Italy's 'heel'. A fountain there had smelly water the locals claimed to be from the [[ichor]] of the giants.<ref name=Leuca/> |
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Phlegra (Greek: Φλέγρα)[1] is both a real and a mythical location in both Greek and Roman mythology.
In Greek mythology, it is the site of Zeus's overthrowing of the Giants (Gigantes) at the end of the Gigantomachy.
Plegra is a peninsula of Macedonia (more specifically in Chalkidike) in modern Greece; it is an ancient name for Pallene in historical Thrace, the latter as per the toponymy of the ancients; Pallene – and Phlegra – is most commonly called nowadays Kassandra, or Peninsula of Kassandra.[1]
Strabo wrote that the Phlegraiean Field (Φλέγρας πεδίον, Phlegras pedion, or Φλεγραία πλάξ, Phlegraia plax)[1] or Phlegra was in Campania near Cumae.[2] He writes that the Giants who survived, were driven out by Heracles, finding refuge with their mother in Leuca,[3] a town now in Italy's 'heel'. A fountain there had smelly water the locals claimed to be from the ichor of the giants.[3]
Strabo also writes:
The peninsula Pallene, on whose isthmus is situated the city formerly called Potidaea and now Cassandreia, was called Phlegra in still earlier times. It used to be inhabited by the giants of whom the myths are told, an impious and lawless tribe, whom Heracles destroyed.
Phlegras pedion has also been used as a synonym of – or as a field in – Nephelokokkygia (cloud cuckoo land).
See also
References
- ^ a b c φλέγρα. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- ^ "Strabo: The Geography, Book V Chapter 4". University of Chicago. Loeb Classical Library edition. 1923. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ a b Smith, William (1865). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Little, Brown & Company. p. 167.
Its site is clearly marked by an ancient church still called Sta. Maria di Leuca [...] Strabo tells us that the inhabitants of Leuca showed there a spring of fetid water
- ^ "7.Fr. 27". Geography (in Greek). At the Perseus Project. See also 7.Fr 25. English translation
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