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MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Earth and father of Asterius, king of Anactoria (Miletus).
Anax. A giant, son of Uranus and Gaea, and father of Asterius. The legends of Miletus, which for two generations bore the name of Anactoria, described Anax as king of Anactoria ; but in the reign of his son the town and territory were conquered by the Cretan Miletus, who changed the name Anactoria into Miletus. (Paus. i. 35.5, vii. 2.3.)
NYSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The story is told that three brothers, Athymbrus and Athymbradus and Hydrelus, who came from Lacedaemon, founded the three cities which were named after them, but that the cities later became scantily populated, and that the city Nysa was founded by their inhabitants; but that Athymbrus is now regarded by them as their original founder (Strab. 14,1,46). Legendary heroe of Sparta (Steph. Byz.).
DIDYMA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Branchus: Father of Cercyon. Argiope: A nymph, mother of Cercyon.
Branchus (Branchos), a son of Apollo or Smicrus of Delphi. His mother, a Milesian woman, dreamt at the time she gave birth to him, that the sun was passing through her body, and the seers interpreted this as a favourable sign. Apollo loved the boy Branchus for his great beauty, and endowed him with prophetic power, which he exercised at Didyma, near Miletus. Here he founded an oracle, of which his descendants, the Branchidae, were the priests, and which was held in great esteem, especially by the lonians and Aeolians. (Herod. i. 157; Strab. xiv., xvii.; Lutat. ad Stat. Theb. viii. 198; Conon, Narrat. 33; Luc. Dial. Deor. 2.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletus was founded by Neleus, a Pylian by birth.
Son of Zeus by Europa or Laodamia, Minos' brother, his banishment by Minos and his rule in Lycia, quarrels with Minos and flies from him, flees from Crete to Lycia, becomes king of Lycia, leader of the Lycians at Troy, killed by Patroclus, Sarpedon and Memnon painted by Polygnotus.
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Myus was founded by Cydrelus, bastard son of Codrus
PRIINI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Priene was founded by Aepytus the son of Neleus (of Miletos), and then later by Philotas, who brought a colony from Thebes
A Theban, descendant of Peneleos, joint founder of Priene.
Priene is by some writers called Cadme, since Philotas, who founded it, was a Boeotian
PYGELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Pygela, a small town, with a temple of Artemis Munychia, founded by Agamemnon and inhabited by a part of his troops
LADI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Asterius (Asterios), a son of Anax and grandson of Ge. According to a Milesian legend, he was buried in the small island of Lade, and his body measured ten cubits in length (Paus. i. 35.5, vii. 2.3). There are four other mythical personages of this name, who are mentioned in the following passages: Apollod. iii. 1.4 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 176; Apollod. i. 9.9; Hygin. Fab. 170.
LEUCOPHRYS (Ancient small town) TURKEY
Leucophryne (Leukophrune). A surname of Artemis, derived from the town of Leucophrys
in Phrygia, where, as well as at Magnesia on the Maeander, she had a splendid
temple (Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 2.19; Strab. xiv.7; Tac. Ann. iii. 62; Athen. xv.).
The sons of Themistocles dedicated a statue to her on the Acropolis at Athens,
because Themistocles had once ruled at Magnesia (Paus. i. 26. 4; Thuc. i. 138;
Plut. Themist. 29). There was also a statue of her at Amyclae, which had been
dedicated by the Magnesian Bathycles (Paus. iii. 18. 6). Her temple at Magnesia
had been built by Hermogenes, who had also written a work upon it. (Vitruv. vii.
Praef. 3, 1).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
THYMBRIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Thymbraeus (Thumbraios), surname of Apollo, derived from a place in Troas called Thynmbra, where he had a temple in which Achilles was wounded, or from a neighboring hill of the same name. (Strab. xiii.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Thumbra; Eurip. Rhes. 224; Serv. ad Acn. iii. 85 ; Horn. Il. x. 430.)
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An aboriginal, founds sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus.
ALAVANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
According to Stephanos from Byzantion, king Kar gave this name to the city upon his son Alabadros's victory at horse race.
Alabandus (Alabandos), a Carian hero, son of Euippus and Calirrhoe, whom the inhabitants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of their town. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Alabanda; Cic. de Nat. Deor. iii. 15, 19.)
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaea (Anaia), an Amazon, from whom the town of Anaea in Caria derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s.v. ; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 828)
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ephesus (Ephesos), a son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said, conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. (Paus. vii. 2.4)
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
Caystrius (Kaustrios), a son of Achilles and the Amazon Penthesileia, from whom the river Caystrus was believed to have derived its name. Caystrius, together with Asius, had a heroum on the banks of that river. (Strab. xiv.; Serv. ad Aen. xi. 661)
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletus, (Miletos). The son of Apollo and Aria of Crete, who
fled from Minos to Asia, where he built the city of Miletus. Ovid ( Met.ix. 442)
calls him a son of Apollo and Deione, and hence Deionides.
Areia, a daughter of Cleochus, by whom Apollo became the father of Miletus. (Apollod. iii. 1.2)
VARGASA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Bargasus (Barpsasos), a son of Heracles and Barge, from whom the town of Bargasa in Caria derived its name. He had been expelled by Lamus, the son of Omphale. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Barpsasa.)
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Anax, king of Anactoria (Miletus), buried in isle of Asterius, his corpse 10 cubits long.
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Leycophryne. A nymph or priestess of Artemis Leucophryne, whose tomb was shown in the temple of the goddess at Magnesia. (Theodoret. Serm. 8.; Arnob. adv. Gent. vi. 6.)
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Codrus, founder of Myus.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Spring near Miletus.
The daughter of Miletus and Tragasia who lived on Crete.
Her brother was called Caunus.
Byblis fell in love with her brother and was prepared to do anything
to get him. She wrote him a long letter, where she declared her love, and gave
examples of couples amongst the gods that were brothers and sisters as well.
Caunus was disgusted and left Crete
to get away from his love sick sister. Byblis followed him, though, and stalked
him through Caria and Lycia
and many other countries.
When she arrived in Phoenicia
her tears had dissolved her, and she turned into a spring. The city where the
spring was was named Byblis.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
Biblis, Byblis: Perseus Project Index.
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