Ὀδησσός - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #10
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 483.12 | Billerbeck: Ο10
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 31
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus) FGrHist 244 F 294 = fr. 11 Marcotte, Ἡρακλείδης (Heracleides), Δημήτριος (Demetrios (Demetrios))
Entities: Ὀδησσός (Odessos (Odessus)) [place], Πόντος (Pontus (the Black Sea)) [place], Σαλμυδῆσσος (Salmydessus) [place], Ὀδησσίτης (Odessite (inhabitant of Odessos)) [people], Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseus) [person]
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Ὀδησσός, πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ πρὸς τῷ Σαλμυδησσῷ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ὄρος μέγα τὴν Ὀδησσόν φησιν. ὁ πολίτης Ὀδησσίτης καὶ Ὀδησσεύς. ἐχρημάτιζον δὲ Ἡρακλείδης ἱστοριογράφος καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ περὶ τῆς πατρίδος γράψας.

Odessos: a city in Pontos, near Salmydessos. Apollodoros, however, says that Odessos is a great mountain. The citizen is called Odessitēs, and also Odysseus. There were also men who bore the name: Herakleidēs the historiographer and Dēmētrios, the author of a work On the Homeland.

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.210

char LCS 56 (32.9%) · word LCS 11 (35.5%)

Stephanos

Ὀδησσός, πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ πρὸς τῷ Σαλμυδησσῷ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ὄρος μέγα τὴν Ὀδησσόν φησιν. ὁ πολίτης Ὀδησσίτης καὶ Ὀδησσεύς. ἐχρημάτιζον δὲ Ἡρακλείδης ἱστοριογράφος καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ περὶ τῆς πατρίδος γράψας.

Herodian

… πᾶσιν ἀνάσσει, ἄντρον ἐνὶ σκηνῇ τευμήσατο, τόφρα κεν εἴη Φοίνικος κούρη κεκυθμένα, ὄφρα ἑ μή τις μηδὲ θεῶν ἄλλος γε παρὲξ φράσσαιτό κεν αὐτοῦ. Ἐδεβησσός πόλις Λυκίας, Ἐρβησσός πόλις Σικελίας. Ὀρδησσός, Ὀδησσός πόλις ἐν πόντῳ πρὸς τῷ Σαλμυδησσῷ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ὄρος μέγα τὴν Ὀδησσόν φησιν. Σαλμυδησσός κόλπος τοῦ Πόντου. Ἀγησσός πόλις Θρᾴκης ὡς Θεόπομπος ἐν τεσσαρακοστῇ ἑβδόμῃ. Ἀκαλησσός πόλις Λυκίας, Ἀσσησσός πόλις Μιλησίας γῆς. Θεόπομπος