- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- name. Finally, the
Parians colonised Thasos under the
leadership of the
oecist and
father of the poet Archilochus, Telesicles. In 340 BC,
while Alexander...
- 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...
-
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...
