Hippocles of Cyme
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Hippocles of Cyme (in Greek: Ιπποκλής ο Κυμαίος) was an ancient Greek oecist from Cyme in Euboea.
As Strabo narrates, he, along with Megasthenes of Chalcis, undertook the task of creating a new colony.[1] Both Hippocles and Megasthenes, after creating a small fleet and taking command of it, sailed around the Peloponnese and crossed the Ionian Sea. They reached Magna Graecia, and upon nearing its shores, they selected a site where they established the colony Cumae.[2]
References
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Book V, chapter IV. The leaders of the expedition, Hippocles the Cumæan and Megasthenes of Chalcis, having mutually agreed that one of the nations should have the management of the colony, and the other the honour of conferring upon it its own name. Hence at the present day it is named Cumæ, while at the same time it is said to have been founded by the Chalcidenses.
- ^ Strab. 5.4
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