Mende (Chalcidice)

Coinage of Mende. Ithyphallic ass on the obverse. c. 510-480 BC.

Mende (Ancient Greek: Μένδη), also Mendae or Mendai (Μένδαι),[1] or Menda (Μένδα),[2] or Mendis,[3] was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of the Pallene peninsula in Chalkidiki, facing the coast of Pieria across the narrow Thermaic Gulf and near the modern town of Kalandra.

  1. ^ Pausanias (1918). "10.27". Description of Greece. Vol. 5. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ^ Polyaen. 2.1.21; Suda s.v.
  3. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 31.45.

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