Ancient Cos

Proud to Be an Islander: Island Identity in Multi-Polis Islands in the Classical and Hellenistic Aegean

“…What our sources do not tell us, however, is whether this metoikesis also involved a political unification -in other words, whether the island of Cos was a single political unit before 366.The debate over the number of city-states on the island before the move can be considered settled since the publication of the excellent study on the history of Cos by Susan Sherwin-White. 75 Sherwin-White has shown that there were at least two independent political units on the island before 366; the metoikesis was, in fact, a political unification. Previously the available evidence -the fifth-century coins, the Athenian Tribute Lists' single entry of 'Cooi', and Cos's membership in the Dorian Pentapolis (Hdt.…”

“…44 'Coans' were also present at Sicilian Zancle under Cadmus the 'Coan' (Hdt 7.163-64). 45 'Rhodians' founded Acragas in Sicily, according to Polybius (9.27.8), but in this case the reference may simply reflect the reality of the unified state of Rhodes in Polybius's time. The Rhodians also took part in the colonization of Naucratis in Egypt as described by Herodotus (2.178.2).…”

Folklore: An Obituary?

“…Dawkins (1950: 348-9) remains cautious, although he favours the former hypothesis on grounds of 'probability' (the improbability of details pertaining to the same myth surviving in oral tradition in one tale from Kos only is not considered). Other scholars are ambivalent, although allowing the tale to in fluence their interpretation of the ancient poetic tradition (Sherwin-White 1978: 308, Hollis 1970; only Kenney (1963: 57) dares to suggest that the tale derives from literary sources. The challenge has been taken up by Fehling (1972: 173-96), whose case against the oral survival of the ancient myth and in favour of a literary-romantic contamination remains unanswered.…”

Üçüncü Makedonya Savaşından Pompeius un Seferine Roma nın Doğu Politikası ve Anadolunun Güney Kıyılarında Korsanlık (M.Ö. 167-M.Ö. 67)

“…Ancak Anadolu'nun güney kıyıla-rında doğrudan Roma yönetimi altında olan bir toprak parçası olmasının, bölgedeki korsanlığın önlenmesi adına bir etkisi olmadı. Çünkü Roma'nın eyalette askeri varlığı yok gibiydi ve bir donanması da bulunmuyordu 70 .…”