A city allied with Troy.
During the Trojan War, a man named Othryoneus came from Kabesos to fight for Trojan King Priam. As compensation for his service, Othryoneus wanted to marry Priam's daughter, Kassandra (Cassandra).
King Priam agreed to allow Othryoneus to marry Kassandra without paying the customary bride-price if Othryoneus would fight in the Trojan army. Othryoneus honored his promise and died an inglorious death at the hands of the Achaian (Achaean) commander, Idomeneus.
The location of ancient Kabesos in not known but assumptions can be made. If Kabesos was near Troy, Priam would not have had to ask Othryoneus to fight in the army, the king would have commanded it without having to offer Kassandra as a reward. If not on the Troad,1 it would seem possible that Kabesos was in Thrace but not too far from the Hellespont.2 The location depicted on this map is a possible site of Kabesos but not definitive.
1. Troad—the extensive area surrounding Troy.
2. Hellespont (Helle's Sea)—now associated with the Dardanelles, the narrow body of water separating Europe and Asia. The Hellespont of antiquity was undoubtably much larger and probably included the Propontis and a large portion of the northern Aigean (Aegean) Sea.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 13, line 363 Strabo, Geography book 13.1.40 |