Listed 39 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "IZMIR Province TURKEY" .
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).
ATARNEFS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City opposite Lesbos, abandoned on account of gnats.
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).
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.
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.
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.
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Ionia, destroyed by Lysimachus, its warm baths.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Lebedus is one hundred and twenty stadia distant from Colophon. This is the meeting-place and settlement of all the Dionysiac artists in Ionia as far as the Hellespont; and this is the place where both games and a general festal assembly are held every year in honor of Dionysus. They formerly lived in Teos, the city of the Ionians that comes next after Colophon, but when the sedition broke out they fled for refuge to Ephesus. And when Attalus settled them in Myonnesus between Teos and Lebedus the Teians sent an embassy to beg of the Romans not to permit Myonnesus to be fortified against them; and they migrated to Lebedus, whose inhabitants gladly received them because of the dearth of population by which they were then afflicted. Teos, also, is one hundred and twenty stadia distant from Lebedus; and in the intervening distance there is an island Aspis, by some called Arconnesus. And Myonnesus is settled on a height that forms a peninsula.
SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Next one comes to another gulf, on which is the old Smyrna, twenty stadia distant from the present Smyrna. After Smyrna had been razed by the Lydians, its inhabitants continued for about four hundred years to live in villages. Then they were reassembled into a city by Antigonus, and afterwards by Lysimachus, and their city is now the most beautiful of all; a part of it is on a mountain and walled, but the greater part of it is in the plain near the harbor and near the Metroum and near the gymnasium. The division into streets is exceptionally good, in straight lines as far as possible; and the streets are paved with stone; and there are large quadrangular porticoes, with both lower and upper stories. There is also a library; and the Homereium, a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet; and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called Homereium.
The River Meles flows near the walls; and, in addition to the rest of the city's equipment, there is also a harbor that can be closed. But there is one error, not a small one, in the work of the engineers, that when they paved the streets they did not give them underground drainage; instead, filth covers the surface, and particularly during rains, when the cast-off filth is discharged upon the streets. It was here that Dolabella captured by siege, and slew, Trebonius, one of the men who treacherously murdered the deified Caesar; and he set free many parts of the city.
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Teos also is situated on a peninsula; and it has a harbor. Anacreon the melic poet was from Teos; in whose time the Teians abandoned their city and migrated to, Abdera, a Thracian city, being unable to bear the insolence of the Persians; and hence the verse in reference to Abdera. Abdera, beautiful colony of the Teians.
But some of them returned again in later times. As I have already said, Apellicon also was a Teian; and Hecataeus the historian was from the same city. And there is also another harbor to the north, thirty stadia distant from the city, called Gerrhaeidae.
TRARION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Above it, in the interior, lie the copper mine and Perperene and Trarium and other settlements like these two.
POLICHNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
After this three vessels sailed over to Clazomenae, and made that city revolt also; and the Clazomenians immediately crossed over to the mainland and began to fortify Polichna, in order to retreat there, in case of necessity, from the island where they dwelt.
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