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Alalcomenae or Alalkomenai (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαλκομ́εναι), or Alcomenae or Alkomenai (Ἀλκομεναί), was a town in Ithaca,[1] or in the small island Asteris in the neighbourhood of Ithaca.[2]

Alalcomenae in Ithaca, Castle of Odysseus Image Source

The ancient geographer Strabo refers to an Alalcomenae on the tiny island of Asteria, between Ithaca and Kefalonia (Homer calls the island Asteris).

Plutarch, however, refers to Alalcomenae as a "city of the Ithacans".[8] This could mean that he imagined it as being on Ithaca, or merely that it belonged to Ithaca. Strabo's discussion makes it clear that it was an extremely minor village; nonetheless, because of Plutarch's reference one archaeological site on Ithaca now bears the name Alalkomenes

Its site is located at the palaiokastro on modern Aëtos.[3][4]
See also

List of ancient Greek cities

References

Plutarch, Quaest. Graec. 43; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Strabo. Geographica. 10.2.16. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying.

Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Alalcomenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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