Φάλαννα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Φάλαννα, πόλις Περραιβίας, ἀπὸ Φαλάννης τῆς Τυροῦς θυγατρός. Λυκόφρων “Γόννον Φάλανναν ἠδ´ Ὀλοσσόνων γύας”. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν αʹ Ἱππίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. καὶ Ἔφορος Φάλαννον αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν τῷ θʹ. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Κρήτης, ἀφ´ ἧς ἦν Φανιάδης ὁ περιπατητικός. ὁ πολίτης Φαλανναῖος καὶ Φαλανναία τὸ θηλυκόν.

Hippia, Phalannon, Phallanna">Phalanna: a city in Perrhaibia, named after Phalanna, daughter of Tyro. Lykophron: ‘Gonnos, Phalanna, and the lands of the Olossones.’ Hekataios, in book 1 of his Histories, calls it Hippia. Ephoros too calls it Phalannon in book 9. There is also another in Crete, from which came Phaniades the Peripatetic. A citizen is a ‘Phalannaios’, and the feminine is ‘Phalannaia’.

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Text Details

Entry	#12
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 655.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-14
Word count	45
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(906)
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Histories · FGrHist 1 F 5 = fr. 5 Fowler
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)	FGrHist 70 F 62

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Φάλαννα	Phalanna · place
Περραιβία	Perrhaebia · place
Φάλαννα	Phalanna · person
Τυρώ	Tyro · person
Γόννος	Gonnus · place
Φάλαννα	Phalanna · place
Ὀλοσσών	Oloosson · place
Ἱππία	Hippia · place
Φάλαννα	Phalanna · place
Κρήτη	Crete · place
Φανιάδης	Phaniades · person
Φαλανναῖος	Phalannaean · other
Φαλανναία	Phalannaean woman · other
Phalanna in Perrhaibia	place · city · Perrhaibia · explicit · unresolved
Phalanna in Crete	place · settlement · Crete · implicit · wikidata: Q111469010 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	[Phalanna] is named from Phalanna, the daughter of Tyro.
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also another Phalanna in Crete, from which Phaniades the Peripatetic came.

Links

Place links	Phalanna \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.257

char LCS 170 (71.7%) · word LCS 32 (71.1%)

Stephanos

Φάλαννα, πόλις Περραιβίας, ἀπὸ Φαλάννης τῆς Τυροῦς θυγατρός. Λυκόφρων “Γόννον Φάλανναν ἠδ´ Ὀλοσσόνων γύας”. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν αʹ Ἱππίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. καὶ Ἔφορος Φάλαννον αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν τῷ θʹ. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Κρήτης, ἀφ´ ἧς ἦν Φανιάδης ὁ περιπατητικός. ὁ πολίτης Φαλανναῖος καὶ Φαλανναία τὸ θηλυκόν.

Herodian

…Κάλαρνα πόλις Μακεδονίας, ὡς Λούκιος ὁ Ταρραῖος. Σάμορνα· οὕτως ἡ Ἔφεσος ἐκαλεῖτο. Φαλάσαρνα πόλις Κρήτης. Μέντυρνα πόλις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Σαυνιτῶν. Διονύσιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. Ἱεράπυτνα πόλις Κρήτης. * Τὰ εἰς 'ννα' προπαροξύνεται, Φάλαννα πόλις Περραιβίας ἀπὸ Φαλάννης τῆς Τυροῦς θυγατρός. Λυκόφρων (v. 906) »Γόννον Φάλανναν ἠδ´ Ὀλοσσόνων γύας«. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν αʹ Ἱππίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ καὶ Ἔφορος Φάλαννον αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν τῷ θʹ. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Κρήτης. Ἔραννα πόλις Τριφυλίας, ἥτις Κυπαρισσία καλεῖται. Ῥάβεννα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἕρμιππος ὁ Βηρύτιος Ῥούενναν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. Διονύσιος δ´ ἐν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας καὶ πληθυντικῶς καὶ διὰ τοῦ 'η' καὶ δι´ ἑνὸς 'ν' »ἀμφ…