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EOLIS (Ancient country) TURKEY
These are the Aeolian cities: Cyme (called "Phriconian"), Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia. These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland. These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good.
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Chians, then, surrendered Pactyes, and afterwards Mazares led his army against those who had helped to besiege Tabalus, and he enslaved the people of Priene, and overran the plain of the Maeandrus, giving it to his army to pillage and Magnesia likewise.
PANIONION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
The Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia.
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Thersander too met his death at the hands of Telephus. He had shown himself the bravest Greek at the battle; his tomb, the stone in the open part of the market-place, is in the city Elaea on the way to the plain of the Caicus, and the natives say that they sacrifice to him as to a hero (Paus.9.5.14).
AFRODISIAS (Ancient city) AYDIN
In Caria, salt-well at.
ALAVANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria, Herodutus' birthplace, a colony of Troezen, Artemisia, queen of, mausoleum at.
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Opposite Samos.
ASSISOS (Ancient city) IONIA
A town with a local cult of Athene, in the lands of Miletus.
ATARNEFS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City opposite Lesbos, abandoned on account of gnats.
DIDYMA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
In land of Miletus, sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at, image of Apollo, altar made of blood of victims, temple apparently identical with Branchidae.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City, named after Ephesus, in Lydia, of Ionian origin, one of the most remarkable temples known to Herodotus, later city founded by Lysimachus, prosperity of Ephesus, river, spring, and mountain in land of E., temple of Artemis at E. the largest building in world, sanctuary of Ephesian goddess (Artemis) the largest and richest in Ionia, Amazons sacrifice to Ephesian goddess, statues of Conon and Timotheus in sanctuary of Ephesian goddess at Ephesus, quarter called Coresus at E., Ionians defeated there by Persians, terminus of "royal road", Xerxes' sons sent there after Salamis, the Cercopes at, Lysander defeats Athenian fleet at E., Croesus' offerings in the temple of Artemis there, Ephesus besieged by Croesus, Ephesians occupy Samos, but are afterwards expelled, dedicate statue of Lysander and other Spartans.
EGES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Aeolian town in Achaea.
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Aeolis, people of E. dedicate image of Zeus at Olympia.
Aeolian town in Asia Minor (Hrd. 1,149).
EOLIS (Ancient country) TURKEY
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Ionian town in Asia Minor, inhabited by a mixed population, sanctuary and image of Herakles at E, temple of Athena Polias at E, people of Parium, a colony from E, Erythraeans claim Herophile the Sibyl, set up statue at Olympia.
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Ionia, an Ionian seaport in Lydia, ancient temple of Athena at Phocaea, burnt by Persians, Phocaeans come to Asia from Phocis, found Massilia, recognise goddesses called Gennaides, taken by Achilles, Phocaean enterprise in the western Mediterranean, town captured by Persians, flight of Phocaeans to Corsica and their adventures there, Phocaeans at Naucratis, in the Ionian fleet against Darius.
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Aeolian town in Asia Minor, grove of Apollo at.
HERAKLIA ON LATMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Miletus (Paus. 5,1,5).
IONIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Borders on Aeolis, its fine climate, its unmatched sanctuaries, its dates, its games, its market-places, waters with noxious vapours inland from, expedition of sons of Codrus to, expedition of Athenians to, conquered by Medes.
KALYNDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ιn the frontier of Lycia, Calyndians in Xerxes' fleet.
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Miletus in, watered by Maeander, cities of C. shaken by earthquake and restored by emperor Antoninus.
KAVNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Caria and Lycia, origin of its people, attacked and subdued by the Medes, participation in Ionian revolt against Darius.
KELENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Phrygia, at the junction of the Marsyas and Maeander, on Xerxes' route.
KERAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria (Paus. 6.13.3).
KILLA (Ancient city) EOLIS
An Aeolian town in Asia Minor.
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Place in land of Colophon, sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at Klaros.
KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Ionia, its resistance to Alyattes, Clazomenian treasury at Delphi, taking of the town by Persians, taken by Achilles, baths at, Agamemnon worshipped at, Clazomenians set up statue of athlete at Olympia.
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City in Caria, on the Triopian promontory, intersected by arm of sea, founded by Triopas, Conon defeats Lacedaemonian fleet at, a Dorian town, attempted restoration by Cnidians of a Tarentine exile.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Ionian town in Lydia, taken by Gyges, Apaturia not celebrated at Colophon, civil strife there, taken by Achilles, contest of skill between Calchas and Mopsus at, destroyed by Lysimachus.
KYMI (Ancient city) TURKEY
City, taken by Achilles, in Mysia, an Aeolian town, its consultation of an oracle as to surrender of a refugee, Cyme taken by the Persians, station of Xerxes' fleet after Salamis.
Name of Cyme in Mysia.
LAODIKIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Phrygia.
LAVRANDA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
In Caria; temple of a war-god there.
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Ionia, destroyed by Lysimachus, its warm baths.
LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Most important region of lower Asia, Upper Lydia, offerings of kings of Lydia at Delphi, Lydians surnamed Persians, Lydians expelled by Ionians of Smyrna, Lydians claim to possess image of Tauric Artemis, Lydian birds, Lydian community, Lydian guides, Lydian music, Omphale, queen of.
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A town in Asia near the Maeander, taken by Medes, Polycrates put to death there by Oroetes, Magnesian tribute to Persia, on the Hermus, on the Lethaeus, beside Mount Sipylus, governed by Themistocles, bones of Themistocles brought from M. to Athens, Magnesians worship Leucophryenian Artemis, Magnesians help Bathycles to make throne of Apollo, Magnesian gate of Ephesus.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Ionia, founded by Miletus, son of Apollo, formerly called Anactoria, conquered by Ionians, ruined by Histiaeus, in Caria, attacked by Gyges, war with Alyattes, an Ionian town, agreement with Cyrus, port of Borystlienes a Milesian settlement, wealth and dissensions of Miletus, Aristagoras its governor, Milesians defeated by Persians in Ionic revolt, threatened attack of Miletus by Persians, siege, capture, and depopulation of the town, Phrynichus' drama on the subject, Persian fleet off Miletus, story of the Milesian and Glaucus, Miletus' foundation by Neleus, Milesians' desertion of the Persians at Mycale (See Aristagoras, Histiaeus), alluvial plain between Miletus and Priene, island of Lade off, Maeander falls into sea at, altar of Heliconian Zeus at, image of Apollo restored to Milesians by Seleucus.
MYLASSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A town in Caria; temple of Zeus there.
MYNDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria, a colony of Troezen.
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Ionian town in Caria, Ionian despots arrested at Myus, wrested from Carians by Ionians, its contingent in the Ionian fleet, abandoned on account of gnats.
NEON TICHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
(New Fort) an Aeolian town in Asia Minor.
NOTION (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Aeolian town in Asia Minor, Calchas buried at.
NYSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Mountain, Typhon at, in Asia, the nymphs and Dionysus at.
PAKTOLOS (River) TURKEY
A river flowing through Sardis.
PANIONION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
An Ionian place of meeting for council or ceremonial, near Mycale, federal assembly of Ionians at, Ionians sacrifice at.
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City on the Caicus, formerly called Teuthrania, seized by Philetaerus, sanctuary and worship of Aesculapius at, altar made of ashes of victims at, image of Apollo at, chamber of Attalus at, tomb of Auge at, iron heads of lion and boar at, picture of sacrifice of Polyxena at, Pythium at, spoils of Corinth at, tomb of Silenus at, sacrifices offered to Telephus, at, Pergamenians descended from Telephus and his Arcadians, their wars, have spoils taken from Gauls, their country formerly sacred to the Cabiri, worship Telesphorus.
PITANI (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Aeolian town in Mysia.
PRIINI (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Ionian town in Caria, city of Ionia, its population at war with Carians, wrested from Carians by Ionians, founded by Philotas and Aepytus, temple of Athena at, sea between Priene and Miletus turned into dry land by Maeander, Myron of Priene, prose writer, taken by Lydians, by Persians, its ships in the Ionian fleet.
SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Croesus' capital of Lydia, its kings, s capture by Cimmerians, cedaemonian envoys there, Sardis besieged by Cyrus, taken, Cyrus at Sardis, town attacked by Lydian rebels, road from Sardis to Smyrna, Cadytis nearly as large as Sardis, Oroetes at Sardis, Asiad tribe there, Darius there, seat of Persian governor, its wealth and pomp, distance from Sardis to Susa, Sardis attacked and burnt by Ionians and Athenians, Histiaeus there, disaffection of Persians at Sardis, Alcmeon there, Xerxes and his army at Sardis, portent seen there, Pharnuches' misfortune there, Xerxes' return thither, Persians' flight to Sardis after Mycale, Xerxes' amours there.
SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
City, taken by Achilles, in Lydia, attacked by Gyges, taken by Allyattes, its transference from Aeolians to Ionians, road from Sardis to Smyrna, one of twelve Aeolian cities, seized by Ionians of Colophon, included in Ionia by Ol. 23, later city founded by Alexander the Great, Lydians under Gyges expelled from, sanctuary of Aesculapius at, image of Fortune at, games at, river Meles at, Music Hall at, sanctuary of the Nemeses at, holy wingless images of Nemeses at, divination by voices practised at.
STRATONIKIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Formerly called Chrysaoris.
SYRNA (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria.
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
At the mouth of the Caicus in Mysia, silting up of a river bed there, old name of Pergamus.
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An Ionian town in Lydia, city of Ionia, inhabited by Minyans, Carians, and Ionians, flight of Teians to Thrace, Teos proposed as a meeting-place for Ionians, its share in the Greek settlement at Naucratis, Teian ships in the Ionian fleet, baths at, enclosure and altar of Heliconian Poseidon at.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cistophorus (kistophoros) was a term applied to certain silver coins issued in
Western Asia Minor, in consequence of the type with which they were impressed,
a Dionysiac cista out of which a serpent glides. The other side of the coin bears
the name or monogram of the city of issue. According to Dr. Imhoof (Die Munzen
der Dynastie von Pergamon, p. 33), this coin originated in Ephesus shortly before
B.C. 200, and its use rapidly extended throughout the dominions of Attalus I.
of Pergamum. Henceforth the cistophorus became a sort of Pan-Asiatic coin, . .
. and was issued in vast quantities from numerous Asiatic mints (Head, Historia
Numorum, p. 461). (Cf. Liv. xxxvii. 46, 58, 59, xxxix. 7; Cic. ad Att. ii. 6,
2, ii. 16, 4, xi. 1, 2; pro Dom. 20, 52.) Mommsen assigns a somewhat later date
(reign of Eumenes II., B.C. 189-159), and therefore disbelieves the statement
of Livy (l. c.), that after the defeat of Antiochus III. in B.C. 190, large numbers
of cistophori were brought to Rome by the conquerors. They continued to be the
currency of the Roman province of Asia even under the Antonines, and many bear
the heads of early Roman emperors.
The coins or staters weigh up to 196 grains; the question of their
value in exchange has been confused from the fact that the ancient writers sometimes
consider them as tetradrachms and sometimes as didrachms. According to Festus
(p. 359), the cistophoric stater was regarded as equivalent to three Roman denarii,
which, however, it outweighed by about fifteen grains: other authorities give
a still lower valuation. The cistophoric drachm, or quarter of the stater, is
said by Festus to have been equal to the Rhodian drachm, and it is likely that
the whole coinage was introduced by the Pergamene kings to succeed that of Rhodes
at a time when the decay of Rhodes had set in. (Mommsen, R. M., pp. 48, 703; Numismatic
Chronicle, 1883, p. 196.)
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
ALAVANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Alabanda is situated at the foot of hills, two hills that are joined together in such a way that they present the appearance of an ass laden with panniers. And indeed Apollonius Malacus, in ridiculing the city both in regard to this and in regard to the large number of scorpions there, said that it was an ‘ass laden with panniers of scorpions.’ Both this city and Mylasa are full of these creatures, and so is the whole of the mountainous country between them. Alabanda is a city of people who live in luxury and debauchery, containing many girls who play the harp. Alabandians worthy of mention are two orators, brothers, I mean Menecles, whom I mentioned a little above, and Hierocles, and also Apollonius and Molon, who changed their abode to Rhodes.
ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Cnicus) to Halicarnassus, the royal residence of the dynasts of Caria, which was formerly called Zephyra. Here is the tomb of Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders, a monument erected by Artemisia in honor of her husband; and here is the fountain called Salmacis, which has the slanderous repute, for what reason I do not know, of making effeminate all who drink from it. It seems that the effeminacy of man is laid to the charge of the air or of the water; yet it is not these, but rather riches and wanton living, that are the cause of effeminacy. Halicarnassus has an acropolis; and off the city lies Arconnesus. Its colonizers were, among others, Anthes and a number of Troezenians. Natives of Halicarnassus have been: Herodotus the historian, whom they later called a Thurian, because he took part in the colonization of Thurii; and Heracleitus the poet, the comrade of Callimachus; and, in my time, Dionysius the historian.
This city, too, met a reverse when it was forcibly seized by Alexander. For Hecatomnus, the king of the Carians, had three sons, Mausolus and Hidrieus and Pixodarus, and two daughters. Mausolus, the eldest of the brothers, married Artemisia, the elder of the daughters, and Hidrieus, the second son, married Ada, the other sister. Mausolus became king and at last, childless, he left the empire to his wife, by whom the above-mentioned tomb was erected. But she pined away and died through grief for her husband, and Hidrieus then became ruler. He died from a disease and was succeeded by his wife Ada; but she was banished by Pixodarus, the remaining son of Hecatomnos. Having espoused the side of the Persians, he sent for a satrap to share the empire with him; and when he too departed from life, the satrap took possession of Halicarnassus. And when Alexander came over, the satrap sustained a siege.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ASTYPALEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium.
ATHYMVRA (Ancient city) KARIA
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 (Stab. 14,1,46).
ATHYMVRADA (Ancient city) KARIA
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).
AZANITIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
CASYSTES (Ancient port) TURKEY
Before coming to Erythrae (from Teos), one comes first to a small town Erae belonging to the Teians; and then to Corycus, a high mountain, and to a harbor at the foot of it, Casystes, and to another harbor called Erythras, and to several others in order thereafter.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The city of Ephesus was inhabited both by Carians and by Leleges, but Androclus drove them out and settled the most of those who had come with him round the Athenaeum and the Hypelaeus, though he also included a part of the country situated on the slopes of Mt. Coressus. Now Ephesus was thus inhabited until the time of Croesus, but later the people came down from the mountainside and abode round the present temple until the time of Alexander. Lysimachus built a wall round the present city, but the people were not agreeably disposed to change their abodes to it; and therefore he waited for a downpour of rain and himself took advantage of it and blocked the sewers so as to inundate the city; and the inhabitants were then glad to make the change. He named the city after his wife Arsinoe; the old name, however, prevailed. There was a senate, which was conscripted; and with these were associated the Epilecti, as they were called, who administered all the affairs of the city.
ELESA (Island) TURKEY
Off the Peraea lies the island Elaeussa, distant one hundred and twenty stadia from Rhodes.
EOLIS (Ancient country) TURKEY
This Asia comprises the first nations on the east, the Paphlagonians and Phrygians and Lycaonians, and then the Bithynians and Mysians and the Epictetus, and, besides these, the Troad and Hellespontia, and after these, on the sea, the Aeolians and Ionians, who are Greeks, and, among the rest, the Carians and Lycians, and, in the interior, the Lydians.
ERAE (Ancient city) TURKEY
Before coming to Erythrae (from Teos), one comes first to a small town Erae belonging to the Teians
ERYTHRAS (Ancient port) TURKEY
Before coming to Erythrae (from Teos), one comes first to a small town Erae belonging to the Teians; and then to Corycus, a high mountain, and to a harbor at the foot of it, Casystes, and to another harbor called Erythras, and to several others in order thereafter.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Erythrae was the native city of Sibylla, a woman who was divinely inspired and had the gift of prophecy, one of the ancients. And in the time of Alexander there was another woman who likewise had the gift of prophecy; she was called Athenais, and was a native of the same city. And, in my time, Heracleides the Herophileian physician, fellow, pupil of Apollonius Mys, was born there.
FYSKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Next (from Caunus) one comes to Physcus, a small town, which has a harbor and a sacred precinct of Leto; and then to Loryma ..
IASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then one comes to Iasus, which lies on an island close to the mainland. It has a harbor; and the people gain most of their livelihood from the sea, for the sea here is well supplied with fish, but the soil of the country is rather poor. Indeed, people fabricate stories of this kind in regard to Iasus: When a citharoede was giving a recital, the people all listened for a time, but when the bell that announced the sale of fish rang, they all left him and went away to the fish market, except one man who was hard of hearing. The citharoede, therefore, went up to him and said: ‘Sir, I am grateful to you for the honor you have done me and for your love of music, for all the others except you went away the moment they heard the sound of the bell.’ And the man said, ‘What's that you say? Has the bell already rung?’ And when the citharoede said ‘Yes,’ the man said, ‘Fare thee well,’ and himself arose and went away.
IONIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
This Asia comprises the first nations on the east, the Paphlagonians and Phrygians and Lycaonians, and then the Bithynians and Mysians and the Epictetus, and, besides these, the Troad and Hellespontia, and after these, on the sea, the Aeolians and Ionians, who are Greeks, and, among the rest, the Carians and Lycians, and, in the interior, the Lydians.
IRAKLEOTIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Of these revenues, though sacred, the kings deprived the goddess, but the Romans gave them back; and again the tax-gatherers forcibly converted the tolls to their own use; but when Artemidorus was sent on an embassy, as he says, he got the lakes back for the goddess, and he also won the decision over Heracleotis, which was in revolt, his case being decided at Rome; and in return for this the city erected in the temple a golden image of him.
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Artemidorus says that, as one goes from Physcus, in the Peraea of the Rhodians, to Ephesus, the distance to Lagina is eight hundred and fifty stadia; and thence to Alabanda, two hundred and fifty more; and to Tralleis, one hundred and sixty. But one comes to the road that leads into Tralleis after crossing the Maeander River, at about the middle of the journey, where are the boundaries of Caria. The distance all told from Physcus to the Maeander along the road to Ephesus amounts to one thousand one hundred and eighty stadia. Again, from the Maeander, traversing next in order the length of Ionia along the same road, the distance from the river to Tralleis is eighty stadia; then to Magnesia, one hundred and forty; to Ephesus, one hundred and twenty; to Smyrna, three hundred and twenty; and to Phocaea and the boundaries of Ionia, less than two hundred; so that the length of Ionia in a straight line would be, according to Artemidorus, slightly more than eight hundred stadia.
Since there is a kind of common road constantly used by all who travel from Ephesus towards the east, Artemidorus traverses this too: from Ephesus to Carura, a boundary of Caria towards Phrygia, through Magnesia, Tralleis, Nysa, and Antiocheia, is a journey of seven hundred and forty stadia; and, from Carura, the journey in Phrygia, through Laodiceia, Apameia, Metropolis and Chelidonia. Now near the beginning of Paroreius, one comes to Holmi, about nine hundred and twenty stadia from Carura, and, near the end of Paroreius near Lycaonia, through Philomelium, to Tyriaeum, slightly more than five hundred.
Then Lycaonia, through Laodiceia Catacecaumene, as far as Coropassus, eight hundred and forty stadia; from Coropassus in Lycaonia to Garsaura, a small town in Cappadocia, situated on its borders, one hundred and twenty; thence to Mazaca, the metropolis of the Cappadocians, through Soandum and Sadacora, six hundred and eighty; and thence to the Euphrates River, as far as Tomisa, a place in Sophene, through Herphae, a small town, one thousand four hundred and forty. The places on a straight line with these as far as India are the same in Artemidorus as they are in Eratosthenes. But Polybius says that we should rely most on Artemidorus in regard to the places here. He begins with Samosata in Commagene, which lies at the river crossing and at Zeugma, and states that the distance to Samosata, across the Taurus, from the boundaries of Cappadocia round Tomisa is four hundred and fifty stadia.
KARYANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium. Then forthwith one comes to Myndus, which has a harbor; and after Myndus to Bargylia, which is also a city; between the two is Caryanda, a harbor, and also an island bearing the same name, where the Caryandians lived. Here was born Scylax, the ancient historian. Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. From Bargylia there was a man of note, the Epicurean Protarchus, who was the teacher of Demetrius called Lacon.
KAVNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The city has dockyards, and a harbor that can be closed. Above the city, on a height, lies Imbrus, a stronghold .. the city have foul air in summer, as also in autumn, because of the heat and the abundance of fruits. And indeed little tales of the following kind are repeated over and over, that Stratonicus the citharist, seeing that the Caunians were pitiably pale, said that this was the thought of the poet in the verse, ‘Even as is the generation of leaves, such is that also of men’; and when people complained that he was jeering at the city as though it were sickly, he replied, ‘Would I be so bold as to call this city sickly, where even the corpses walk about?; The Caunians once revolted from the Rhodians, but by a judicial decision of the Romans they were restored to them. And there is extant a speech of Molon entitled Against the Caunians. It is said that they speak the same language as the Carians, but that they came from Crete and follow usages of their own.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
KINDYI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. (Strab. 14,2,20).
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Then one comes to the mountain Gallesius, and to Colophon, an Ionian city, and to the sacred precinct of Apollo Clarius, where there was once an ancient oracle. The story is told that Calchas the prophet, with Amphilochus the son of Amphiaraus, went there on foot on his return from Troy, and that having met near Clarus a prophet superior to himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, the daughter of Teiresias, he died of grief.
Now Hesiod revises the myth as follows, making Calchas propound to Mopsus this question:
I am amazed in my heart at all these figs on this wild fig tree, small though it is; can you tell me the number?
And he makes Mopsus reply:
They are ten thousand in number, and their measure is a medimnus;42 but there is one over, which you cannot put in the measure.
‘Thus he spake,’ Hesiod adds,
and the number the measure could hold proved true. And then the eyes of Calchas were closed by the sleep of death.
But Pherecydes says that the question propounded by Calchas was in regard to a pregnant sow, how many pigs she carried, and that Mopsus said, "three, one of which is a female," and that when Mopsus proved to have spoken the truth, Calchas died of grief. Some say that Calchas propounded the question in regard to the sow, but that Mopsus propounded the question in regard to the wild fig tree, and that the latter spoke the truth but that the former did not, and died of grief, and in accordance with a certain oracle. Sophocles tells the oracle in his Reclaiming of Helen, that Calchas was destined to die when he met a prophet superior to himself, but he transfers the scene of the rivalry and of the death of Calchas to Cilicia. Such are the ancient stories.
KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Hypocremnus one comes to Chytrium, the site on which Clazomenae was situated in earlier times. Then to the present Clazomenae, with eight small islands lying off it that are under cultivation. Anaxagoras, the natural philosopher, an illustrious man and associate of Anaximenes the Milesian, was a Clazomenian. And Archelaus the natural philosopher and Euripides the poet took his entire course. Then to a temple of Apollo and to hot springs, and to the gulf and the city of the Smyrnaeans.
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then to Cnidus, with two harbors, one of which can be closed, can receive triremes, and is a naval station for twenty ships. Off it lies an island which is approximately seven stadia in circuit, rises high, is theatre-like, is connected by moles with the mainland, and in a way makes Cnidus a double city, for a large part of its people live on the island, which shelters both harbors. Opposite it, in the high sea, is Nisyrus. Notable Cnidians were: first, Eudoxus the mathematician, one of the comrades of Plato; then Agatharchides, one of the Peripatetics, a historian; and, in my own time, Theopompus, the friend of the deified Caesar, being a man of great influence with him, and his son Artemidorus. Thence, also, came Ctesias, who served Artaxerxes as physician and wrote the works entitled Assyrica and Persica. Then, after Cnidus, one comes to Ceramus and Bargasa, small towns situated above the sea.
KYMI (Ancient city) TURKEY
The largest and best of the Aeolian cities is Cyme; and this with Lesbos might be called the metropolis of the rest of the cities, about thirty in number, of which not a few have disappeared. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 13.3.6)
LADI (Ancient city) TURKEY
The island Lade lies close in front of Miletus, as do also the isles in the neighborhood of the Tragaeae, which afford anchorage for pirates.
LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Theopompus speaks of another city Larisa situated on the same common boundary; and in Asia is a Larisa Phryconis near Cyme; and also the Larisa near Hamaxitis in the Troad; and there is the Ephesian Larisa. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 9.5.19)
LARISSA (Ancient small town) TURKEY
A village Larisa thirty stadia distant from Tralleis, above the city, on the road which runs through Mesogis towards the Cayster Plain near the temple of the Isodromian Mother, which in its topographical position and its goodly attributes is like Larisa Cremaste, for it has an abundance of water and of vineyards; and perhaps the Larisaean Zeus received his epithet from this place. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 9.5.19)
LATMOS (Mountain) KARIA
Next comes the Latmian Gulf, on which is situated "Heracleia below Latmus," as it is called, a small town that has an anchoring-place. It was at first called Latmus, the same name as the mountain that lies above it, which Hecataeus indicates, in his opinion, to be the same as that which by the poet is called "the mountain of the Phtheires"16 (for he says that the mountain of the Phtheires lies above Latmus), though some say that it is Mt. Grium, which is approximately parallel to Latmus and extends inland from Milesia towards the east through Caria to Euromus and Chalcetores.17 This mountain lies above Heracleia, and at a high elevation.18 At a slight distance away from it, after one has crossed a little river near Latmus, there is to be seen the sepulchre of Endymion, in a cave. Then from Heracleia to Pyrrha, a small town, there is a voyage of about one hundred stadia.
Hecataeus indicates, in his opinion, to be the same as that which by the poet is called "the mountain of the Phtheires" (Hom. Il. 2.868) for he says that the mountain of the Phtheires lies above Latmus), though some say that it is Mt. Grium, which is approximately parallel to Latmus and extends inland from Milesia towards the east through Caria to Euromus and Chalcetores. This mountain lies above Heracleia, and at a high elevation. At a slight distance away from it, after one has crossed a little river near Latmus, there is to be seen the sepulchre of Endymion, in a cave
LAVRANDA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
LEUKAI (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Smyrna one comes to Leucae, a small town, which after the death of Attalus Philometor was caused to revolt by Aristonicus, who was reputed to belong to the royal family and intended to usurp the kingdom. Now he was banished from Smyrna, after being defeated in a naval battle near the Cymaean territory by the Ephesians, but he went up into the interior and quickly assembled a large number of resourceless people, and also of slaves, invited with a promise of freedom, whom he called Heliopolitae. Now he first fell upon Thyateira unexpectedly, and then got possession of Apollonis, and then set his efforts against other fortresses.
But he did not last long; the cities immediately sent a large number of troops against him, and they were assisted by Nicomedes the Bithynian and by the kings of the Cappadocians. Then came five Roman ambassadors, and after that an army under Publius Crassus the consul, and after that Marcus Perpernas, who brought the war to an end, having captured Aristonicus alive and sent him to Rome. Now Aristonicus ended his life in prison; Perpernas died of disease; and Crassus, attacked by certain people in the neighborhood of Leucae, fell in battle. And Manius Aquillius came over as consul with ten lieutenants and organized the province into the form of government that still now endures.
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