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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ancient Amphipolis, Ancient Amphipolitans, Ancient Thasians, Ancient Thasos, Artists of Ancient Amphipolis, Artists of Ancient Thasos, Settlers in Amphipolis, Thasian Colonies, Polygnotus, Archilochus, Nearchus, Pistiros, Thasian Rebellion, Battle of Amphipolis, Brasidas, Laomedon of Mytilene, Hagnon, Military Decree of Amphipolis, Aglaophon, Zoilus, Erigyius, Eion, Berge, Antigonos, Theagenes of Thasos, Hegetorides, Hegemon of Thasos, Leodamas of Thasos, Hermagoras of Amphipolis, Aetion, Peithagoras, Pamphilus, Pistyros, Androsthenes of Thasos, Galepsus, Stesimbrotos of Thasos, Philip of Amphipolis, Apollonia, Demetrius of Amphipolis, Damasias, Thasus, Crenides, Stryme, Neapoli, Kavala. Excerpt: Amfipoli Amphipolis (Ancient Greek : Amph polis ) was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day periphery of Central Macedonia . It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea . Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD. The present municipality Amfipoli (Greek : ), named after the ancient city, occupies the site. Currently, it is a municipality in the Serres Prefecture , Central Macedonia with a population of 3,623 (2001 census).History Origins View of the delta of the river Strymon from the acropolis of AmphipolisArchaeology has uncovered remains at the site dating to approximately 3000 BC. Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. Xerxes I of Persia passed during his invasion of Greece of 480 BC and buried alive nine young men and nine maidens as a sacrifice to the river god. Near the later site of Amphipolis Alexander I of Macedon defeated the remains of Xerxes' army in ...