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Aegospotami (Ancient Greek:Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί,Aigos Potamoi) orAegospotamos[1] (i.e.Goat Streams) is the ancient Greek name for a small river or rivers issuing into theHellespont (Modern TurkishÇanakkale Boğazı), northeast ofSestos.[2]
Aegospotami is plural, which suggests that the name may have referred to multiple rivers. As is often the case, interpretation of geography described by ancient sources has difficulties, not the least of which is evolution of the terrain, and the river or rivers have been identified with both the modern Karakova Dere and Büyük Dere ("Big Creek", now called Münipbey Deresi).[3] Körpe and Yavuz concurred with both Bommelaer and Strauss that the latter stream is the more likely candidate and additionally identified the probable site of the associated settlement as a rise on the left bank of the Münipbey Deresi known as Kalanuro Tepesi, based on geographical features and archaeological remnants.[4]
At its mouth was the scene of the decisivebattle in 405 BC in whichLysander destroyed theAthenian fleet, ending thePeloponnesian War.[7][8] Theancient Greek township of the same name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries,[9] and the river itself were located in ancientThrace in theChersonese.[1]
According to ancient sources includingPliny the Elder andAristotle, in 467 BC a largemeteorite landed near Aegospotami. It was described as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load. A comet, tentatively identified asHalley's Comet, was reported at the time the meteorite landed. This is possibly the first European record of Halley's comet.[10][11]
^John Freely -The companion guide to Turkey 1993 "... a stream known to the Greeks as Aegospotami, or Goats' River, which empties into the strait at Ince Limam, ..."
^Donald Kagan,The Fall of the Athenian Empire, (Cornell University Press, 1991),p.386. "A key to understanding the course of events is that Aegospotami was only a beach, a place without a proper harbor, a little to the east of the modern Turkish town called Sütlüce, or Galata in its Greek form, the ancient town of ..."
