| 聖經地名大全 | (Gr.--am-fip'ol-is), a city of Greece, throggh which Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to Thessalonica (Acts xvii:1). It was situated on the left banks of the river Strymon, which flowed around the city, and thus occasioned its name. Its situation upon the banks of a navigable river, a short distance from the sea, with the vicinity of the woods of Kerkine, and the gold mines of Mount Pangaeus, rendered Amphipolis a place of much * importance, and an object of contest between the Thracians, Athenians, Lacedaemonians, and Macedonians, to whom it successively belonged. The Via Egnatia passed through it. It was called in the Middle Ages Popolia (Tafel, Thessal. p. 498f.), and is now represented by a village called Neochori, in Turkish Jenikoei tSee_plan in Leake, N. G. ii:191). Zoilus, the carping critic of Homer, was a -ative, and wrote a history of it in three books (Suidas). |
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