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Cicones Coast
The Thracian coast of the Cicones at Ismarus, where Odysseus's fleet made its first raid after Troy and lost men when the crews lingered and the inland Cicones counterattacked (Odyssey 9).
About Cicones Coast
Ismarus, the first raid
Odysseus's first landfall after Troy is the Cicones' coast at Ismarus in Thrace. Odyssey 9: they sack the town, Odysseus cannot hold his men from lingering, the inland Cicones counterattack, and he loses companions before a fair wind. It is a failed pirate stop, not a wonder. No cult of the Cicones survives in Greek ritual calendars. The episode teaches the poem's rule: delay and greed cost ships. Maroneia later claimed Homeric wine from here.
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Cicones Coast among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Homer, Odyssey 9
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