Apsyrtides(70 words)
[German version]
(Ἀψυρτίδες; Apsyrtídes). Liburnian group of islands east of Istria; linked in Theopompus (FGrH 115 fr. 130; cf. Str. 2,5,20; 7,5,5) with the Argonaut myth ( Argonauts); in the north of the largest island of Crepsa (today Cres, Croatia) Crexa/Crexi, in the south Asporus (Plin. HN 3,140); both of them municipia from the time of Tiberius.
Liburni
Strauch, Daniel (Berlin)
Bibliography
J. J. Wilkes, Dalmatia, 1969, 196 f.
Id., The Illyrians, 1992.
Cite this page
Strauch, Daniel (Berlin),
“Apsyrtides”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 06 May 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e129830>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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