Ancient Stryme

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Stryme, the eastern most colony in the peraia of Thasos, was founded in the mid-seventh century BC on a site on the Molyvotis peninsula, between Porto-Lagos and Maroneia. Herodotus locates Stryme and the river Lissos east of Maroneia, but it is nowadays certain the Lissos, Lake Ismaris and Stryme lay west of that city. Stryme quickly grew into a powerful trading station, while at the same time controlling the exploitation of its rich hinterland, which produced cereals in abundance. From the configuration of the terrain it is quite possible that the area of the city and cape Molyvotis were once islands, and there is information to this effect in Harpokration and in Souda.

From the seventh century BC there was an ongoing dispute between the Maroneians and the Thasians for possession of the city. Stryme is not mentioned in the fiscal lists of Athens, perhaps because the tax it paid was included in that of the metropolis, Thasos. In 361 BC The Maroneians and Thasians fought yet another war over Stryme, which the former had occupied for a brief interval. On that occasion the Athenian general Timomachos helped the Thasians, in whose favour the Athenians finally resolved the difference. A few years later, Philip II of Macedon, who was active in Thrace in 353 BC, assisted the Maroneians to capture and destroy Stryme.

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