Gigonus

Gigonus or Gigonos (Ancient Greek: Γίγωνος) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Lipaxus, Combreia, Lisaea, Campsa, Smila, Aeneia—located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene, where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.[1]

Subsequently the city belonged to the Delian League since it appears on a tribute list to Athens in 434/3 BCE.[2] Gigonus is also cited by Thucydides as the place where the Athenians, under the command of Callias, established a camp in the year 432 BCE when they were heading against Potidaea.[3]

The site of Gigonus is located near modern Nea Kallikrateia.[4][5]

References

Herodotus. Histories. 7.123.
Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 828. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 1.61.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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[1] Herodotus. Histories. 7.123.

[2] Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 828. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

[3] Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 1.61.

[4] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.

[5] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.