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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.
AFRODISIAS (Ancient city) AYDIN
In Caria, salt-well at.
ALAVANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Opposite Samos.
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.
HERAKLIA ON LATMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Miletus (Paus. 5,1,5).
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.
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.
NYSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Mountain, Typhon at, in Asia, the nymphs and Dionysus at.
PANIONION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
An Ionian place of meeting for council or ceremonial, near Mycale, federal assembly of Ionians at, Ionians sacrifice at.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The first city one comes to after Ephesus is Magnesia, which is an Aeolian city and is called ‘Magnesia on the Maeander,’ for it is situated near that river. But it is much nearer the Lethaeus River, which empties into the Maeander and has its beginning in Mt. Pactyes, the mountain in the territory of the Ephesians.. And the city lies in the plain near the mountain called Thorax, on which Daphitas the grammarian is said to have been crucified, because he reviled the kings in a distich: ‘Purpled with stripes, mere filings of the treasure of Lysimachus, ye rule the Lydians and Phrygia.’ It is said that an oracle was given out that Daphitas should be on his guard against Thorax.
MARATHISSION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Panionium) comes Neapolis, which in earlier times belonged to the Ephesians, but now belongs to the Samians, who gave in exchange for it Marathesium, the more distant for the nearer place.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ephorus says: Miletus was first founded and fortified above the sea by the Cretans, where the Miletus of olden times is now situated, being settled by Sarpedon, who brought colonists from the Cretan Miletus and named the city after that Miletus, the place formerly being in the possession of the Leleges; but later Neleus and his followers fortified the present city. The present city has four harbors, one of which is large enough for a fleet.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Panionium) comes Neapolis, which in earlier times belonged to the Ephesians, but now belongs to the Samians, who gave in exchange for it Marathesium, the more distant for the nearer place.
NYSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Nysa is situated near Mt. Mesogis, for the most part lying upon its slopes; and it is a double city, so to speak, for it is divided by a torrential stream that forms a gorge, which at one place has a bridge over it, joining the two cities, and at another is adorned with an amphitheatre, with a hidden underground passage for the torrential waters. Near the theatre are two heights, below one of which is the gymnasium of youths; and below the other is the market place and the gymnasium for older persons. The plain lies to the south of the city, as it does to the south of Tralleis.
ORTYGIA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
On the same coast (of Ephesus), slightly above the sea, is also Ortygia, which is a magnificent grove of all kinds of trees, of the cypress most of all. It is traversed by the Cenchrius River, where Leto is said to have bathed herself after her travail. For here is the mythical scene of the birth, and of the nurse Ortygia, and of the holy place where the birth took place, and of the olive tree near by, where the goddess is said first to have taken a rest after she was relieved from her travail. Above the grove lies Mt. Solmissus, where, it is said, the Curetes stationed themselves, and with the din of their arms frightened Hera out of her wits when she was jealously spying on Leto, and when they helped Leto to conceal from Hera the birth of her children.
PANORMOS (Ancient port) KUSADASI
Then (from Neapolis) comes the harbor called Panormus, with a temple of the Ephesian Artemis; and then the city Ephesus
PYGELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Neapolis) comes Pygela, a small town, with a temple of Artemis Munychia, founded by Agamemnon and inhabited by a part of his troops; for it is said that some of his soldiers became afflicted with a disease of the buttocks and were called "diseased-buttocks," and that, being afflicted with this disease, they stayed there, and that the place thus received this appropriate name.
PYRRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
From Heracleia to Pyrrha, a small town, there is a voyage of about one hundred stadia.
THYMBRIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Within four stadia (from Myus), one comes to a village, the Carian Thymbria, near which is Aornum, a sacred cave, which is called Charonium, since it emits deadly vapors.
TRALLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Magnesia comes the road to Tralleis, with Mt. Mesogis on the left, and, at the road itself and on the right, the plain of the Maeander River, which is occupied by Lydians and Carians, and by Ionians, both Milesians and Myesians, and also by the Aeolians of Magnesia. And the same kind of topographical account applies as far as Nysa and Antiocheia. The city of the Tralleians is situated upon a trapezium-shaped site, with a height fortified by nature; and the places all round are well defended. And it is as well peopled as any other city in Asia by people of means; and always some of its men hold the chief places in the province, being called Asiarchs.
VARGASA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then, after Cnidus, one comes to Ceramus and Bargasa, small towns situated above the sea.
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