Athenocles (Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνοκλῆς) was a man of ancient Greece who was said to have led a colony of Athenians who settled at Amisus in Pontus, and called the place "Peiraeus". The date of this event is uncertain.
This comes to us from the historian Strabo, who himself claims to be quoting a tradition from the historian Theopompus.
References
- Strabo, Geographica xii. p.547
- Cramer, John-Anthony (1832). A Geographical Ad Historical Description of Asia Minor with a Map. University Press. p. 264. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Athenocles (1)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 403.