Selected references to Sinope in Ancient literature

(links to Perseus and the MIT Classics Archive)

 

I. Historical References:

Apollonius Rhodios, Argonautica II (the nymph Sinope)
Cicero On the Agrarian Law 2.chap20 (Pompey and Rullus)
Demosthenes Against Androtion 56 (prostitute Sinope)
Diodorus Historical Library 14.31.1 (return of 10,000)
Diodorus Historical Library 14.31.2 (Sinop Milesian foundation, capital of Mithridates)
Herodotus Histories 4.12.2 (Cimmerians in Sinope)
Flavius Josephus Jewish Antiquities 16.16 (M. Agrippa in Sinope)
Pausanias Description of Greece 2.2.4 (grave of Diogenes)
Plutarch, Comparison of Cimon and Lucullus (Lucullus' victoriess in the Pontus)
Plutarch, Lucullus (sack of Sinope)
Plutarch Pericles 20.2 (Athenian colony in Sinope)
Plutarch, Pompey (despoiling the body of Mithradates)
Strabo Geography 10.4.10 (Death of Euergetes)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.7 (return of 10,000, ambassadors at Cotyora)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.8 (return of 10,000, ambassadors)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.10 (return of 10,000, Cotyora)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.13 (return of 10,000,  welcome to Sinope)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.24 (return of 10,000, welcome to Sinope)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.5.25 (return of 10,000, welcome to Sinope)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.1 (return of 10,000, deliberations about journey beyond Sinope)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.11 (return of 10,000, deliberations-land route)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.12 (return of 10,000, sea route chosen)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.13 (return of 10,000)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.19 (return of 10,000, provisioning the army)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.21 (return of 10,000, bribing army to leave)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.26 (return of 10,000, Timosaion bribing army to leave)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.31 (return of 10,000, Sinop providing ships)
Xenophon Anabasis 6.1.15 (return of 10,000, anchoring at Harmene)

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II. Topography of Sinope and surrounding regions

Cicero On Pompey's Command 21 (Sinop as royal seat)
Herodotus Histories 1.76.1 (Anatolian topography)
Herodotus Histories 2.34.2 (Pontic travel-Ister to Sinope)
Isocrates Panegyricus 162 (Anatolian topography)
Isocrates To Philip 120 (Anatolian topography)
Strabo Geography 11.2.14 (North Pontic topography)
Strabo Geography 11.2.17 (Anatolian-Pontic topography: Colchis-Sinope)
Strabo Geography 12.1.3  (Anatolian topography)
Strabo Geography 12.3.10 (Anatolian-Pontic topography)
Strabo Geography 12.3.11 (Description of Sinope)
Strabo Geography 12.3.14 (Anatolian-Pontic topography)
Strabo Geography 12.3.26  (Anatolian-Pontic topography)
Strabo Geography 12.3.38 (Anatolian-Pontic topography)
Strabo Geography 14.3.1  (Issos-Sinope road)
Strabo Geography 14.5.22 (Issos-Sinope road)
Strabo Geography 14.5.24 (Anatolian topography)
Tacitus, Histories, IV (Origins of Serapis near Sinope)
Xenophon Anabasis 4.8.22 (Trebizond)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.3.2  (Cerausos)
Xenophon Anabasis 5.6.10 (topographic)
Xenophon Anabasis 6.2.1 (topographic, erroneous)

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III. Economy of Sinope

Pausanias Description of Greece 1.31.2 (economic-first fuits transported Hyperboreans-Delos via Sinope)
Strabo Geography 7.6.2 (economy-Pontic fishing)
Strabo Geography 12.2.10 (economy-"Sinope" mineral)
coin: Dewing 2129 (\N)
coin: Dewing 2130 (\N)

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