Listed 15 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "IZMIR Province TURKEY" .
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Teos likewise the Heliconian has a precinct and an altar, well worth seeing.
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Oracle at Gryneia or Grynium. The principal oracle among the Aeolic cities of Asia Minor. (Strabo, xiii. p. 622; Verg. Eclog. vi. 72; Aen. iv. 345; Pausan. i. 21, § 7; Athen. iv. p. 149 d; Hecat. Fragm. 211.) The town itself is mentioned in Herodotus (i. 149), and appears from Strabo to have been dependent on Myrina; and as Myrina sent tribute to Delphi (Plut. Pyth. Orac. 16), the Grynean oracle was no doubt an offshoot from Delphi.
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
The people of Colophon suppose that the sanctuary at Clarus, and the oracle, were founded in the remotest antiquity.
Oracle of Claros. This was situated north of Miletus, near Colophon. It was said to have been founded by Cretans under Rhacius, who were joined afterwards by a Theban colony sent out under the auspices of the Delphic oracle, at an extremely early date. Manto, daughter of Tiresias, was among the Thebans; she married Rhacius, and their son was the prophet Mopsus, from whom the prophets of Claros may have traced their descent; but this is doubtful, (Pansan. vii. 3, § § 1, 2.) In later times, the prophets were generally taken from Miletus (Tac. Ann. ii. 54). The oracle at Claros had its centre in a cave with a beautiful clear pool in it, near a sacred wood, in which, it was said, there were no serpents (Aelian, Hist. Anim. x. 49). We hear but little of this oracle in early times: Alexander was said to have been encouraged by it in a design he had of rebuilding Smyrna (Pausan. vii. 5, § 1). A prophet, who drank the sacred water, was the revealer of the divine will (Tac. l. c.) and pronounced oracles in verse, answering the questioner without even having heard the question. The cynic philosopher Oenomaus of Gadara (in the 2nd century A.D.) was, however, by no means impressed with the truthfulness of the replies (Oenom. ap. Euseb. Praep. Evang. v. 2). Germanicus consulted this oracle, which was said to have prophesied his death (Tac. l. c.); it was sometimes consulted by letter (Ovid, Fast. i. 20); and it was patronised by Apollonius of Tyana (Philostr. Vit. Apoll. iv. 1) and Alexander of Abonotichos (Lucian, Pseudom. 29). Inscriptions prove that its fame extended even to Britain. Porphyry (ad Aneb. p. 3) and Iamblichus (Myst. iii. 11) speak of it, but after that time it is unmentioned.
This text is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
You may see linen breastplates dedicated in other sanctuaries, notably in that at Gryneum, where there is a most beautiful grove of Apollo, with cultivated trees, and all those which, although they bear no fruit, are pleasing to smell or look upon.
TIMNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
If you cross the river Hermus you see an image of Aphrodite in Temnus made of a living myrtle-tree. It is a tradition among us that it was dedicated by Pelops when he was propitiating the goddess and asking for Hippodameia to be his bride.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
There is also in Erythrae a temple of Athena Polias and a huge wooden image of her sitting on a throne; she holds a distaff in either hand and wears a firmament on her head (Paus. 7,5,9).
You would be delighted too with the sanctuary of Heracles at Erythrae (Paus. 7,5,5).
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Besides these, two temples in Ionia were burnt down by the Persians, the one of Hera in Samos and that of Athena at Phocaea. Damaged though they are by fire, I found them a wonder.
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The same rule applies to those who sacrifice to Telephus at Pergamus on the river Caicus; these too may not go up to the temple of Asclepius before they have bathed.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
How it befell that Colophon was laid waste I have already related in my account of Lysimachus. Of those who were transported to Ephesus only the people of Colophon fought against Lysimachus and the Macedonians. The grave of those Colophonians and Smyrnaeans who fell in the battle is on the left of the road as you go to Clarus.
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The grave of Andraemon is on the left of the road as you go from Colophon, when you have crossed the river Calaon.
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The tomb of Auge still exists at Pergamus above the Calcus; it is a mound of earth surrounded by a basement of stone and surmounted by a figure of a naked woman in bronze.
That the Silenuses are a mortal race you may infer especially from their graves, for there is a tomb of a Silenus in the land of the Hebrews, and of another at Pergamus.
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