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RODIAPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Rhodia (Rhodia: Eth. Rhodieus), a town of Lycia, situated in the mountains
on the north of Corydallus. (Steph. B. s. v.; Ptol. v. 3. § 6; Phot. Cod. 176.)
At the time when Col. Leake wrote his work on Asia Minor (p. 186) the site of
this town was not yet ascertained, and Sir C. Fellows did not examine the district;
but the inscriptions which have since been found fix its site at the place now
called Eski Hissar. (Spratt and Forbes, Travels in Lycra, i. pp. 166, 181.) The
town had a temple of Asclepius, and its citizens are not called, as Stephanus
Byz. asserts, Rhodieis, but Rhodiapolitai or Rhodiopolitai, whence it appears
that Pliny (v. 28) correctly calls the town Rhodiopolis. A plan of the numerous
remains of this town is given by Spratt, according to whom it was not surrounded
by walls: the theatre stands nearly in the centre, and is small, having a diameter
of only 136 feet; but many of the seats remain, and the basement of the proscenium
is perfect. In the front of it is a terrace, with seats along the parapet. Remains
of churches show that the place was inhabited in Christian times. There are also
traces of an aqueduct. The town being situated on a lofty eminence, commands an
extensive southern prospect.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Among the hills some 6.5 km N-NW of Kumluca. According to Theopompos
the city was named after Rhode, daughter of Mopsos; this however is no more than
the usual eponymous fabrication, and the foundation from Rhodes which the name
implies is generally accepted. Its existence in the 4th c. B.C. is proved by two
rock tombs carrying epitaphs in the Lycian language; these are almost the only
Lycian inscriptions yet found E of the Alagir Cayi (generally identified with
the ancient Limyros). Coinage began in the Hellenistic period with issues of Lycian
League type; under the Empire it is confined, as elsewhere in Lycia, to Gordian
III. Later, the bishop of Rhodiapolis ranked twenty-sixth under the metropolitan
of Myra.
The extant ruins are mostly of late date and somewhat unimpressive.
The theater is in moderate preservation, with 16 rows of seats and some remains
of the stage building; in front of it stood the well-known funerary monument of
Opramoas, the local millionaire philanthropist. The inscription on this is among
the longest known, covering three sides of the building (TAM 11.3.905); it records
the honors conferred on Opramoas and the benefactions, in the form of money, bestowed
by him on most of the Lycian cities. Among numerous buildings, largely built with
small stones and mortar, a Temple of Asklepios and Hygieia is identified by inscriptions.
There are remains of two stoas, and to the NW of the city some piers of an aqueduct.
On the summit of the hill is a solid rectangular tower. There is no sign of a
city wall.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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