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- The oikistes (Gr****: οἰκιστής), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Gr**** polis as the leader of any new colonization...
- original name was perhaps Aipeia, but the city was refounded by a Theban oecist after Epaminondas' foundation of Messene in 369. Some modern scholars however...
- or 733 BC in Sicily by Gr**** settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias. There are many attested variants of the name of the...
- founded in 733 BC by Gr**** settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias. There are many attested variants of the name of the...
- Hippocles of Cyme (in Gr****: Ιπποκλής ο Κυμαίος) was an ancient Gr**** oecist from Cyme in Euboea. As Strabo narrates, he, along with Megasthenes of Chalcis...
- name. Finally, the Parians colonised Thasos under the leadership of the oecist and father of the poet Archilochus, Telesicles. In 340 BC, while Alexander...
- founded by Achaean Gr**** colonists. Pausanias also gives the name of the oecist, or founder, as Typhon of Aegium. Others sources such as Pseudo-Scymnus...
- at nearby Pithecusae (modern Ischia) and were led to ****ae by the joint oecists (founders): Megasthenes of Chalcis and Hippocles of Cyme. The site chosen...
- join in the colony; and as many as 10,000 colonists, under three Spartan oecists (Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon), built and fortified a new town, to which...