Ἀσκανία

Askania, Ascania

Translated by Jennifer Benedict20 Mar 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

4 words

A lake in Nicaea.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀσκανία· λίμνη ἐν Νικαίᾳ.

Betacode

*)askani/a: li/mnh e)n *nikai/a|.

Askania/Askania was a large freshwater lake in Bithynia, on whose eastern shore stood the city of Nicaea; Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4; cf. Strabo 12.4.5 & 8, 14.5.29.
It was also a territory closely related to Phrygia, providing one of the Phrygian leaders in the Trojan War (according to the "Trojan Catalog," Homer, Iliad 2.862-63; cf. Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos I (fasc.8) 1403-04). In the Aeneid the hero's son is named Ascanius. The name is probably Thraco-Phrygian.