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See also:AMBRACIA (more correctly AMPRACIA)
, an See also:ancient Corinthian See also:colony, situated about 7 M. from the Ambracian Gulf, on a See also:bend of the navigable See also:river Aracthus (or Aratthus), in the midst of a fertile wooded See also:plain
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It was founded between 65o and 625_ B.c. by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian See also:tyrant Cypselus
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After the See also:expulsion of Gorgus's son See also:Periander its See also:government See also:developed into a strong See also:democracy
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The See also:early policy of See also:Ambracia was determined by its See also:loyalty to See also:Corinth (for which it probably served as an See also:entrepot in the See also:Epirus See also:trade), its consequent aversion tq Corcyra, and its frontier disputes with the Amphilochians and Acarnanians
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Hence it took a prominent See also:part in the Peloponnesian See also:War until the crushing defeat at Idomene (426) crippled its resources
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In the 4th See also:century it continued its traditional policy, but in 338 surrendered to See also: In See also:Byzantine times a new See also:settlement took its See also:place AMBRACIA under the name of See also:Arta (q.v.) . Some fragmentary walls of large, well-dressed blocks near this latter See also:town indicate the early prosperity of Ambracia . AUTnoRIT1Es.-See also:Thucydides ii . 68-iii . 114; See also:Aristotle, Politics, 1303a sqq . ; See also:Strabo p . 325; See also:Polybius xxii . 9-13; See also:Livy xxxviii . 3-9; G . See also:Wolfe, See also:Journal of See also:Geographical Society (See also:London), iii . (1833) pp . 77-94; E . Oberhummer, Akarnanien, Ambrakien, &c. See also:im Altertum (See also:Munich, 1887) . (M` . O . B . |
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