Skepsis

Skepticism (Greek Σκήψις ) was an ancient Greek city of the Aeolians, located in the upper valley of the Scamander in the Asia Minor Troad, in today's Turkish province of Çanakkale near the city Bayramiç. Near the ruins of the city today is the place Kurşunlu.

History

The tradition of Strabo by Palai - skepticism (Alt - skepticism ) was a city of the mythical tribe of Dardan, located on Mount Ida. At the request of Skamandrios, son of Hector, and Ascanius, son of Aeneas, the population but had been transferred to a sixty stadia distant foundation that her MSW room was henceforth. Among the descendants of the Scamander and Ascanius skepticism had been ruled oligarchical, to the town under the influence of Miletus finally adopted a democratic constitution.

A letter of Antigonus Monophthalmos to the Skepsier from the year 311 BC ( the " Diadochenfrieden " ) is specified in their political autonomy in that time, but only a short time later (probably 310 BC) Antigonus undertook a forced relocation of population in its close location reconstitution " Antigoneia ". The Skepsier should form with the likewise positively settled inhabitants of Kebrene with which they were traditionally hostile to the new city population here. After the end of Antigonus in the battle of Ipsos 301 BC Troas fell into the dominion of Lysimachus. This allowed the Skepsiern to return to their city, while Kebrener should remain in " Antigoneia ", which has now been renamed Alexandria Troas.

Neleus, a friend and pupil of Aristotle and Theophrastus, had acquired their written legacy and this can be accommodated in a basement vault in skepticism allegedly in order to hide from the Attalids. Most of it has been neglected by his descendants and therefore lost. Only in the first century BC had a small part of the fonts can be bought and returned to Athens.

Skepticism was inhabited until well into the Byzantine era.

Personalities

  • Neleus of skepticism, 4th Century BC, student of Aristotle and Theophrastus
  • Demetrius of skepticism, ancient geographer in the second century BC and source of Strabo

Swell

  • Strabo, Geographika 13, 1, 33; 52 and 54
  • Plutarch, Sulla 26, 2
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