Chersonesus(3) , , city in the southwestern Crimea
Journal: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
Year: 2016

City situated in the SW Crimea, near modern Sevastopol'. Literary evidence (*Strabo, *Pliny (1), etc.) suggests that it was founded from *Heraclea (3) Pontica, south across the Black (*Euxine) Sea. Until recently it was agreed that Heracleot settlement began c.420 bce, on the site of an earlier, small Ionian (Milesian?) site. But recent archaeology has been taken to show that the Heracleot settlement dates from no later than c.525 bce. It also attests a vigorous trade with the south coast of the