Potidaea
Pŏtĭdaea, ae, f., = Ποτιδαία,
- a city of Pallene, afterwards called Cassandrea, the mod. Pinaka, Plin. 2, 58, 59, § 150; 4, 10, 17, § 36; Mel. 2, 2 fin.
Pŏtĭdæa, æ, f. (Ποτίδαια), Potidée [ville de Macédoine, dans la Pallène] : Plin. 2, 150.
POTIDAEA
POTIDAEA[CASSANDREIA]
Potidaea
(Ποτίδαια). A town in Macedonia, on the narrow isthmus of the peninsula Pallené, was a colony of the Corinthians. It afterwards became tributary to Athens, and its revolt from the latter city, in B.C. 432, was one of the immediate causes of the Peloponnesian War (q.v.). It was taken by the Athenians in 429, after a siege of more than two years, its inhabitants expelled, and their place supplied by Athenian colonists. In 356 it was taken by Philip, who destroyed the city and gave its territory to the Olynthians. Cassander built a new city on the same site, to which he gave the name of Cassandrēa, and which soon became the most flourishing city in all Macedonia.