Heracleium or Herakleion ( grc, Ἡράκλειον) was a city on the south coast of

ancient Pieria Pieria ( el, Πιερία) is one of the regional units of Greece located in the southern part of the Region of Central Macedonia, within the historical province of Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Katerini.The name Pieria originates from t ...

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...

, between

Phila Phila may refer to a shortened name for the City of Philadelphia, U.S. It may also refer to: *Phila of Elimeia, sister of Derdas and wife of Philip II of Macedon *Phila (daughter of Antipater), wife of Balacrus, Craterus and Demetrius Poliorcetes ...

and

Leibethra Leibethra or Libethra, in the modern pronunciation Leivithra ( gr, Λείβηθρα or Λίβηθρα) was an ancient Macedonian city at the foot of Mount Olympus, near the present settlement of Skotina. Archaeologists have discovered tombs ther ...

. During

Peloponnesian war The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world. The war remained undecided for a long time until the decisive intervention of th ...

it passed into

Athenian Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

control in the years 430/29, 425/4 and 421 BCE. After Athenian alliance with

Perdiccas II Perdiccas II ( gr, Περδίκκας, Perdíkkas) was a king of Macedonia from c. 448 BC to c. 413 BC. During the Peloponnesian War, he frequently switched sides between Sparta and Athens. Family Perdiccas II was the son of Alexander I, he had ...

in 413 BCE it became again a city of Macedon. The site of Heracleium is near the modern Platamon.

References

*The Athenian Tribute List

by Benjamin D. Meritt *An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Polei

By Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen *Two Studies in Ancient Macedonian Topography - Page 46 by Miltiadēs V. Chatzopoulos, Louiza D. Loukopoulou
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