Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 could it be Vaison la Romaine (France, near Lyon) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 could it be Vaison la Romaine (France, near Lyon) ? Yes, spot on! I thought that would take a little longer... over to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 well I went there when I was around and kept a good memory of the place, very interesting one by the way... Now well go to a ancient city that, I hope, will be hard to identify : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 So is it proving a challenge and do the honourable assembly require some tips ? This place was visited by a roman delegation in the late second century B.C. during an effort to settle various quarels in an area torn between the competing interest of various international powers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingan Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 My spontaneous reaction to your clue was Alexandria (Popilius and the circle in the sand) but that should have been 168 BC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 Alexandria plays a role in the enigm as it was the capital of one of the international powers I mentionned but it is not the place we are looking for, which is much smaller and, at the time we're speaking of (which is some 40 to 50 years from the date you spoke of), is in a league of cities which has been warring another league for some time. With this city (I should say town...) we are right in the middle of the topic hellenistic diplomatic fightings and roman intervention. I will add to elements to that : the picture is the old town center and the building on the picture is archaic, at the time we're speaking of most of the population has relocated some kilometers from here to the city's port, a port still in existance today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylla Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 (edited) Alexandria plays a role in the enigm as it was the capital of one of the international powers I mentionned but it is not the place we are looking for, which is much smaller and, at the time we're speaking of (which is some 40 to 50 years from the date you spoke of), is in a league of cities which has been warring another league for some time. With this city (I should say town...) we are right in the middle of the topic hellenistic diplomatic fightings and roman intervention. I will add to elements to that : the picture is the old town center and the building on the picture is archaic, at the time we're speaking of most of the population has relocated some kilometers from here to the city's port, a port still in existance today. If you are talking about Naupaktos, that would be either the late III century BC (ie, like 217 BC) or the early II century BC (ie, 191 BC). Edited June 22, 2009 by sylla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I am not speaking of Naupaktos. To be more precise, the roman delegation came to this town in the last quarter of the second century B.C. and Livy is one of our main sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotWotius Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Is it Pelusium (Tell el-Farama) in the Sinai? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 No it isn't. We are on an island. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylla Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 No it isn't. We are on an island. Rhodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Rhodes is the second internationnal player I spoke of, doing a war by proxy against ptolemaic Egypt during this period, the city we are looking for being part of the egyptian alliance. Epigraphic evidences are quite numerous in the city and give detailled informations on the conflict of which I'm speaking. A french scholar, Henri Van Effenterre, worked on the history of this city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotWotius Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Chios? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylla Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Rhodes is the second internationnal player I spoke of, doing a war by proxy against ptolemaic Egypt during this period, the city we are looking for being part of the egyptian alliance. Epigraphic evidences are quite numerous in the city and give detailled informations on the conflict of which I'm speaking. A french scholar, Henri Van Effenterre, worked on the history of this city. Malia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 that would have been too easy, since this is the best known dig of Van Effenterre But you're on the right island. We are indeed in Crete and the war we are speaking of is the war between cretan cities organized in two leagues under the patronage of Rhodes and Egypt, a war which forced the mediation of the romans led by Q. Fabius Maximus, probably in 113/112 BC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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