Chalcis (Aetolia)

Chalcis or Chalkis (Ancient Greek: Χαλκίς), also called Chalceia (Χάλκεια)[1] and Hypochalcis (Ὑποχαλκίς),[2][3] was a town of ancient Aetolia, situated upon the coast, at a short distance east of the mouth of the Evenus, and at the foot of a mountain of the same name, whence it was called Hypochalcis. Chalcis is one of the five Aetolian towns spoken of by Homer, who gives it the epithet of ἀγχίαλος (anchialos, "near the coast"), in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.[4] It continued to be mentioned in the historical period, by Thucydides,[5] Polybius,[6] and Strabo.[7]

For other uses, see Chalcis (disambiguation).

Its site is identified as near the modern Kato Vasiliki.[8][9]

References

1. Ptolemy. The Geography. 5.94.
2. Strabo. Geographica. p. 451. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
3. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v Ὑποχαλκίς.
4. Homer. Iliad. 2.640.
5. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 2.83.
6. Polybius. The Histories. 5.94.
7. Strabo. Geographica. pp. 451, 459, 460. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
8. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
9. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Chalcis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.