Cos or Kos (Ancient Greek: Κῶς) was a city of ancient Greece on the island of the same name.[1] In 366 BCE, the inhabitants of the town of Astypalaea abandoned their town to populate Cos.[2][3] Cos was a member of the Dorian Pentapolis, whose sanctuary was on the Triopian promontory.[4] Under the Athenian rule it had no walls, and it was first fortified by Alcibiades at the close of the Peloponnesian War.[5] In subsequent times it shared the general fate of the neighbouring coasts and islands. Antoninus Pius rebuilt the city, after it had been destroyed by an earthquake.[6]

Its site is located near modern Kos.[1][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiv. p. 658. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ἀστυπάλαια.
  4. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 1.144.
  5. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 8.108.
  6. ^ Pausanias (1918). "43.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library. et seq.
  7. ^ 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). "Cos". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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