Listed 47 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "IZMIR Province TURKEY" .
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Telephus was the son of Heracles and Auge, daughter of Aleus. He succeeded Teuthras in the princedom of Mysia.
KYMI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hellanicus and Herodotus and Eudoxus have foisted on us and placing the Amazons between Mysia and Caria and Lydia near Cyme, which is the opinion also of Ephorus, who was a native of Cyme.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Rhadamanthys, founds Erythrae.
Erythrus. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Erythraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. vii. 3.4.) There are two other mythical personages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Erythraean Sea, are said to have received their names respectively. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267; Steph. Byz. s. v. Eruthra; Curtius, viii. 9.)
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Teos, at first was founded by Athamas (from Orchomenos), for which reason it is by Anacreon called Athamantis, and at the time of the Ionian colonization by Nauclus, bastard son of Codrus, and after him by Apoecus and Damasus, who were Athenians, and Geres, a Boeotian.
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
. . . Elaea, with harbor and naval station belonging to the Attalic Kings, which was founded by Menestheus and the Athenians who took the expedition with him to Ilium.
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Phocaea was founded by the Athenians under Philogenes (Strabo). Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and Damon, Athenians and sons of Euctemon, who themselves led the colony (Pausanias)
KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
A Colophonian.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Colophon was founded by Andraemon a Pylian, according to Mimnermus in his Nanno
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Borus, slays Xanthus, son of Ptolemy.
MYRINA (Ancient city) TURKEY
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gryneus, (Gruneios), a surname of Apollo, under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle, and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion, Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor. (Paus. i. 21.9; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72; Athen. iv.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Trunoi.) Under the similar, if not the same name, Truneus, Apollo was worshipped in the Hecatonnesi. (Strab. xiii.) Ovid (Met. xii. 260) mentions a centaur of the name of Gryneus.
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Clarius (Klarios), a surname of Apollo, derived from his celebrated temple at Claros in
Asia Minor, which had been founded by Manto, the daughter of Teiresias, who, after
the conquest of her native city of Thebes, was made over to the Delphic god, and
was then sent into the country, where subsequently Colophon was built by the Ionians
(Paus. vii. 3.1, ix. 33.1; Tacit. Ann. ii. 54; Strab. xiv.; Virg. Aen. iii. 360).
Clarius also occurs as a surname of Zeus, describing him as the god who distributes
things by lot (klaros or kleros, Aeschyl. Suppl. 360). A hill near Tegea was sacred
to Zeus under this name (Paus. viii. 53.4)
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Herakles and Auge, king of the Mysians.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Idmon. The father of Arachne, a native of Colophon. Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Grynus, a son of the Mysian Eurypylus, who after his father's death invited Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache, to assist him against his enemies. After he had gained a victory over them, he built, in commemoration of it, two towns, Pergamus and Grynus. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72)
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hiera, the wife of Telephus, who in the Trojan war commanded the Mysian women on horseback. Late traditions described her as excelling in beauty Helena herself. She fell by the hand of Nireus. (Philostr. Her. ii. 18.)
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gryne, an Amazon, from whom the Gryneian grove in Asia Minor was believed to have derived its name, for it was said that Apollo had there embraced her. (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 345.)
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Neoptolemus and Andromache, conquers Teuthrania and calls it Pergamus (Perseus Encyclopedia).
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Damasichthon: Son of Codrus, king of Colophon. Promethus: Son of Codrus, leader of Ionians, king of Colophon, slays his brother and flees to Naxos.
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Prince of Teuthrania, marries Auge, a prince in valley of Caicus, receives and marries Auge, daughter of Aleus, adopts Telephus and is succeeded by him in the princedom.
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Herakles by Auge, exposed on Mount Parthenius and suckled by doe, crosses to Asia with Arcadians, attacks Greek army in Mysia, adopted by Teuthras, prince of Mysia, and succeeds to the princedom, king of the Mysians, chases the Greek invaders, fights Achilles, wounded by Achilles, healed by Achilles with the rust of his spear, shows the Greeks the way to Troy, slays Thersander, dedicates bronze bowl to Apollo, mentioned in hymns at Pergamus, sacrifices offered to him at Pergamus, statue on Mt. Helicon, represented in gable of temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, father of Eurypylus.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 28/3/2001: 85 for Telephos, 94 for Telephus.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Arachne. A Lydian maiden, daughter of Idmon of Colophon, a famous dyer in purple. Arachne excelled in the art of weaving, and, proud of her talent, ventured to challenge Athene to compete with her. The maiden produced a piece of cloth in which the amours of the gods were woven, and as the goddess could find no fault with it she tore the work to pieces. Arachne, in despair, hanged herself. Athene loosened the rope and saved her life, but the rope was changed into a cobweb, and Arachne herself into a spider (arachne). This fable seems to suggest that man learned the art of weaving from the spider, and that it was invented in Lydia.
Arachne. a Lydian maiden, daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. His daughter was greatly skilled in the art of weaving, and, proud of her talent, she even ventured to challenge Athena to compete with her. Arachne produced a piece of cloth in which the amours of the gods were woven, and as Athena could find no fault with it, she tore the work to pieces, and Arachne in despair hung herself. The goddess loosened the rope and saved her life, but the rope was changed into a cobweb and Arachne herself into a spider (arachne), the animal most odious to Athena. (Ov. Met. vi. 1-145; Virg. Georg. iv. 246.) This fable seems to suggest the idea that man learnt the art of weaving from the spider, and that it was invented in Lydia.
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PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Deity at Pergamus, same as Euamerion at Titane.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Codrus, settles Ionians at Erythrae.
KYMI (Ancient city) TURKEY
And they add that Cleues, son of Dorus, and Malaus, also descendants of Agamemnon, had collected their army at about the same time as Penthilus, but that, whereas the fleet of Penthilus had already crossed over from Thrace to Asia, Cleues and Malaus tarried a long time round Locris and Mt. Phricius, and only later crossed over and founded the Phryconian Cyme, so named after the Locrian mountain. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 13.1.3)
LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
For it is said that the people who set out from Phricium, the Locrian mountain above Thermopylae, put in at the place where Cyme now is, and finding the Pelasgians in bad plight because of the Trojan War, though still in possession of Larisa, which was about seventy stadia distant from Cyme, built on their frontier what is still today called Neon Teichos, thirty stadia from Larisa, and that, having captured Larisa, they founded Cyme and settled there the survivors (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 13.3.3)
NEON TICHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
For it is said that the people who set out from Phricium, the Locrian mountain above Thermopylae, put in at the place where Cyme now is, and finding the Pelasgians in bad plight because of the Trojan War, though still in possession of Larisa, which was about seventy stadia distant from Cyme, built on their frontier what is still today called Neon Teichos, thirty stadia from Larisa, and that, having captured Larisa, they founded Cyme and settled there the survivors (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 13.3.3)
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Α diviner, son of Apollo or of Rhacius and Manto, defeats Calchas in a trial of skill, slain by Amphilochus, son of Alcmaeon, in single combat.
Rhacius: Leads Cretan colony to Asia, marries Manto, daughter of Tiresias. Manto: Daughter of Tiresias, sent by Apollo to Colophon, where she marries Rhacius.
SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Philip, founds later city of Smyrna.
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Great-grandson of Melanthus, leads Ionians to Teos.
Teos, at first (faounded) by Athamas, for which reason it is by Anacreon called Athamantis, and at the time of the Ionian colonization by Nauclus, bastard son of Codrus, and after him by Apoecus and Damasus, who were Athenians, and Geres, a Boeotian
A Boeotian, leader of colony.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Erythraean fisherman.
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