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ΣΑΡΔΕΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Πόλη της Λυδίας, στις υπώρειες του όρους Τμώλου, μετέπειτα Σάρδεις (Ιλ. Ε 44).
ΥΔΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΛΥΔΙΑ
Πόλη της Λυδίας, κάτω από τον Τμώλο (Ιλ. Υ 385).
ΛΑΡΙΣΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Γιος του Λήθου, γιου του Τευτάμου, αδελφός του Ιπποθόου και αρχηγός των Πελασγών της Λάρισας (Ιλ. Β 842).
Γιος του Λήθου, γιου του Τευτάμου, αρχηγός των Πελασγών της Λάρισας και σύμμαχος των Τρώων (Ιλ. Β 840, Ρ 217 κ.ε.).
ΛΥΔΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Γιος του Ταλαιμένους και της νύμφης Γυγαίας, αρχηγός των Μαιόνων, σύμμαχος των Τρώων στον Πόλεμο της Τροίας (Ιλ. Β 864)
Γιος του Ταλαιμένους και της νύμφης Γυγαίας, αρχηγός των Μαιόνων (Ιλ. Β 864, Ρ 216).
ΚΑΡΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Βασιλιάς της Καρίας, τα παιδιά του οποίου, Ατύμνιος και Μάρις, πήραν το μέρος των Τρώων και σκοτώθηκαν από τους γιους του Νέστορα (Π317, Π328).
Amisodarus (Amisodaros), a king of Lycia (or Caria?), who was said to have brought up the monster Chimaera (Hom. Il. xvi. 328; Eustath. ad Hom.; Apollod. ii. 3.1; Aelian, H. A. ix. 23). His sons Atymnius and Maris were slain at Troy by the sons of Nestor. (Il. xvi. 317, &c.)
ΛΑΡΙΣΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Βασιλιάς των Πελασγών της Λάρισας, γιος του Τευτάμου, πατέρας του Ιπποθόου και του Πυλαίου (Ιλ. Β 843, Ρ 288).
ΥΔΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΛΥΔΙΑ
Βασιλιάς της Υδης και πατέρας του Ιφιτίωνα (Ιλ. Υ 384).
ΚΑΡΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Γιος του Νομίονα, αρχηγός, μαζί με τον αδελφό του Αμφίμαχο, των Καρών στον Τρωικό πόλεμο (Ιλ. Β 867).
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Γιος του Νομίονος, αρχηγός, μαζί με τον αδελφό του Νάστη, των Καρών, ο οποίος φονεύθηκε από τον Αχιλλέα (Ιλ. Β 870).
Amphimachus. A son of Nomion, who together with his brother Nastes led a host of Carians to the assistance of the Trojans. He went to battle richly adorned with gold, but was thrown by Achilles into the Scamander. (Hom. Il. ii. 870, &c.) Conon (Narrat. 6) calls him a king of the Lycians.
Πατέρας του Αμφίμαχου και του Νάστη (Ιλ. Β 871).
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ΛΥΔΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Πατέρας του Μέσθλη και του Αντιφου, των ηγεμόνων των Μαιόνων (Ιλ. Β 865).
ΣΑΡΔΕΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Πατέρας του Φαίστου από την Τάρνη της Λυδίας (Ιλ. Ε 44).
ΣΙΠΥΛΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΛΥΔΙΑ
Γιος του Δία και της Πλουτούς, πατέρας της Νιόβης και του Πέλοπα. Επειδή είχε σερβίρει στους θεούς για γεύμα το γιο του Πέλοπα, είχε καταδικαστεί στον Αδη να μην μπορεί να φάει ούτε να πιει, καθώς τα νερά της λίμνης όπου βρισκόταν χάνονταν και τα φρούτα στα δέντρα τα απομάκρυνε από εκείνον ο άνεμος, ενώ προσπαθούσε να τα φτάσει (Οδ. λ 582 κ.ε.).
Tantalus, (Tantalos). The son of Zeus and Pluto. His wife is called by some Euryanassa, by others Taygete or Dione, and by others Clytia or Eupryto. He was the father of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe. All traditions agree in stating that he was a wealthy king, but while some call him king of Lydia, others describe him as king of Argos or Corinth. Tantalus is particularly celebrated in ancient story for the terrible punishment inflicted upon him after his death in the lower world, the causes of which are differently stated by the ancient writers. According to the common account Zeus invited him to his table, and communicated his divine counsels to him. Tantalus divulged the secrets thus intrusted to him; and he was punished in the lower world by being afflicted with a raging thirst, and at the same time placed in the midst of a lake, the waters of which always receded from him as soon as he attempted to drink them. Over his head, moreover, hung branches of fruit, which receded in like manner when he stretched out his hand to reach them.. Another account says that there was suspended over his head a huge rock, ever threatening to crush him. Another tradition relates that, wishing to test the gods, he cut his son Pelops in pieces, boiled them and set them before the gods at a repast. A third account states that Tantalus stole nectar and ambrosia from the table of the gods and gave them to his friends; and a fourth relates the following story: Rhea caused the infant Zeus and his nurse to be guarded in Crete by a golden dog, whom Zeus afterwards appointed guardian of his temple in Crete. Pandareus stole this dog, and, carrying him to Mount Sipylus in Lydia, gave him to Tantalus to take care of. But when Pandareus demanded the dog back, Tantalus took an oath that he had never received it. Zeus thereupon changed Pandareus into a stone, and threw Tantalus down from Mount Sipylus. Others, again, relate that Hermes demanded the dog of Tantalus, and that the perjury was committed before Hermes. Zeus buried Tantalus under Mount Sipylus as a punishment; and there his tomb was shown in later times. The punishment of Tautalus was proverbial in ancient times, and from it the English language has borrowed the verb "to tantalize," that is, to hold out hopes or prospects which cannot be realized. The patronymic Tantalides is frequently given to the descendants of Tantalus. Hence we find not only his son Pelops, but also Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Orestes called by this name.
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ΚΑΡΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Γιος του Αμισωδάρου, που φονεύθηκε από τον Αντίλοχο (Ιλ. Π 317).
ΣΑΡΔΕΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Γιος του Λυδού Βώρου, που φονεύθηκε από τον Ιδομενέα (Ιλ. Ε 44).
ΤΕΥΘΡΑΝΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Ηταν γιος του Τήλεφου και της Αστυόχης, που φονεύθηκε από τον Νεοπτόλεμο (Οδ. λ 520).
Ο πατέρας του ήταν γιος του Ηρακλή και της Αύγης από την Τεγέα, ο οποίος ήρθε στον τόπο και παντρεύτηκε την κόρη του Τεύθραντα και τον διαδέχθηκε στον θρόνο.
Eurypylus, a son of Telephus and Astyoche, was king of Moesia or Cilicia. Eurypylus was induced by the presents which Priam sent to his mother or wife, to assist the Trojans against the Greeks. Eurypylus killed Machaon, but was himself slain by Neoptolemus. (Hygin. Fab. 112; Strab. xiii.; Paus. iii. 26. 7; Dict. Cret. iv. 14; Eustath. ad Hom.).
ΥΔΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΛΥΔΙΑ
Οτρυντείδης, δηλαδή γιος του Οτρυντέως, από την Υδη, που φονεύθηκε από τον Αχιλλέα (Ιλ. Υ 382).
ΣΤΡΑΤΟΝΙΚΕΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Chrysaor, the god with the golden sword or arms. In this sense it is used as a surname or attribute of several divinities, such as Apollo (Hom. II. xv. 256), Artemis (Herod. viii. 77), and Demeter (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 4). We find Chrysaoreus as a surname of Zeus with the same meaning, under which he had a temple in Caria, which was a national sanctuary, and the place of meeting for the national assembly of the Carians. (Strab. xiv. ; comp. Paus. v. 21.5; Steph. Byz. s. v. Chrusaoris.)
ΕΦΕΣΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Στους Λέλεγες αναφέρεται κι ο Ομηρος, που τους τοποθετεί στα δυτικά παράλια της Μικράς Ασίας και μάλιστα περί την Πήδασο και τη Λυρνησσό απέναντι από τη Λέσβο (Ιλ. Κ 429, Y 96, Φ 83).
Κατά τον Παυσανία ήταν καρικό φύλο, που ζούσε στην Εφεσο (Παυσ. 7,2,8).
Leleges. An ancient race, frequently mentioned with the Pelasgians as the prehistoric inhabitants of Greece. The Leleges were described as a warlike and migratory race, who first took possession of the coasts and the islands of Greece, and afterwards penetrated into the interior. Piracy was probably their chief occupation; and they are represented as the ancestors of the Teleboans and the Taphians, who were notorious for their piracies. The name of the Leleges was derived by the Greeks from an ancestor, Lelex, who is called king of either Megaris or Lacedaemon. They must be regarded as a branch of the great Indo-Germanic race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. They are spoken of as inhabiting Acarnania and Aetolia, and afterwards Phocis, Locris, Boeotia, Megaris, Elis, and Laconia, which last was originally called Lelegia; also (in Asia Minor) Ionia, the southern part of the Troad, and Caria.
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Leleges, an ancient race which was spread over Greece, the adjoining islands,
and the Asiatic coast, before the Hellenes. They were so widely diffused that
we must either suppose that their name was descriptive, and applied to several
different tribes, or that it was the name of a single tribe and was afterwards
extended to others. Strabo (vii. p. 322) regarded them as a mixed race, and was
disposed to believe that their name had reference to this (to sullektous gegonenai).
They may probably be looked upon, like the Pelasgians and the other early inhabitants
of Greece, as members of the great Indo-European race, who became gradually incorporated
with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people.
The most distinct statement of ancient writers on the origin of the
Leleges is that of Herodotus, who says that the name of Leleges was the ancient
name of the Carians (Herod. i. 171). A later Greek writer considered the Leleges
as standing in the same relation to the Carians as the Helots to the Lacedaemonians
and the Penestae to the Thessalians. (Athen. vi. p. 271.) In Homer both Leleges
and Carians appear as equals, and as auxiliaries of the Trojans. (Il. x. 428.)
The Leleges are ruled by Altes, the father-in-law of Priam, and inhabit a [p.
155] town called Pedasus at the foot of Mount Ida. (Il. xxi. 86.) Strabo relates
that Leleges and Carians once occupied the whole of Ionia, and that in the Milesian
territory and in all Caria tombs and forts of the Leleges were shown. He further
says that the two were so intermingled that they were frequently regarded as the
same people. (Strab. vii. p. 321, xiii. p. 611.) It would therefore appear that
there was some close connection between the Leleges and Carians, though they were
probably different peoples. The Leleges seem at one time to have occupied a considerable
part of the western coast of Asia Minor. They were the earliest known inhabitants
of Samos. (Athen. xv. p. 672.) The connection of the Leleges and the Carians was
probably the foundation of the Megarian tradition, that in the twelfth generation
after Car, Lelex came over from Egypt to Megara, and gave his name to the people
(Paus. i. 39. § 6); but their Egyptian origin was evidently an invention of later
times, when it became the fashion to derive the civilisation of Greece from that
of Egypt. A grandson of this Lelex is said to have led a colony of Megarian Leleges
into Messenia, where they founded Pylus, and remained until they were driven out
by Neleus and the Pelasgians from Iolcos; whereupon they took possession of Pylus
in Elis. (Paus. v. 36. § 1.) The Lacedaemonian traditions, on the other hand,
represented the Leleges as the autochthons of Laconia; they spoke of Lelex as
the first native of the soil, from whom the people were called Leleges and the
land Lelegia; and the son of this Lelex is said to have been the first king of
Messenia. (Paus. iii. 1. § 1, iv. 1. § § 1, 5.) Aristotle seems to have regarded
Leucadia, or the western parts of Acarnania, as the original seats of the Leleges;
for, according to this writer, Lelex was the autochthon of Leucadia, and from
him were descended the Teleboans, the ancient inhabitants of the Taphian islands.
He also regarded them as the same people as the Locrians, in which he appears
to have followed the authority of Hesiod, who spoke of them as the subjects of
Locrus, and as produced from the stones with which Deucalion repeopled the earth
after the deluge. (Strab. vii. pp. 321, 322.) Hence all the inhabitants of Mount
Parnassus, Locrians, Phocians, Boeotians, and others, are sometimes described
as Leleges. (Comp. Dionys. Hal. i. 17.) (See Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol.
i. p. 42, seq.)
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ΛΑΡΙΣΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Σύμμαχοι των Τρώων με αρχηγούς τον Ιπποθόο και τον Πύλαιο (Ιλ. Β 840, Κ 429).
ΛΥΔΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Νύμφη της ομώνυμης λίμνης, μητέρα του Μέσθλου και του Αντιφου (Ιλ. Β 865).
ΕΦΕΣΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Ποταμός της Ιωνίας, που εκβάλλει κοντά στην Εφεσο (Ιλ. Β 461).
Cayster, Caystrus (Kaustros, and Kaustrios, Hom. Il. ii. 461 ; Kara-Su and Kutschuk
Meinder, or Little Maeander), a river of Lydia, which lies between the basin of
the Hermus on the north, and that of the Maeander on the south. The basin of the
Cayster is much smaller than that of either of these rivers, for the Cogamus,
a southern branch of the Hermus, approaches very near the Maeander, and thus these
two rivers and the high lands to the west of the Cogamus completely surround the
basin of the Cayster. The direct distance from the source of the Cayster to its
mouth is not more than seventy miles, but the windings of the river make the whole
length of course considerably more.
The southern boundary of the basin of the Cayster is the Messogis
or Kestane Dagh. The road which led from Physcus in Caria to the Maeander, was
continued from the Maeander to Tralles; from Tralles down the valley of the Maeander
to Magnesia; and from Magnesia over the hills to Ephesus in the valley of the
Cayster. From Magnesia to Ephesus the distance was 120 stadia (Strab. p. 663).
The northern boundary of the basin of the Cayster is the magnificent range of
Tmolus or Kisilja Musa Tagh, over the western or lower part of which runs the
road (320 stadia) from Ephesus to Smyrna. Strabo's notice of the Cayster is very
imperfect. According to Pliny the high lands in which it rises are the Cilbiana
juga (v. 29), which must be between the sources of the Cayster and the valley
of the Cogamus. The Cayster receives a large body of water from the Cilbian hills,
and the slopes of Messogis and Tmolus. Pliny seems to mean to say that it receives
many streams, but they must have a short course, and can only be the channels
by which the waters descend from the mountain slopes that shut in this contracted
river basin. Pliny names one stream, Phyrites (in Harduin?s text), a small river
that is crossed on the road from Ephesus to Smyrna, and joins the Cayster on the
right bank ten or twelve miles above Aiasaluck, near the site of Ephesus. Pliny
mentions a stagnum Pegaseum, which sends forth the Phyrites, and this marsh seems
to be the morass on the road from Smyrna to Ephesus, into which the Phyrites flows,
and out of which it comes a considerable stream. The upper valley of the Cayster
contained the Cilbiani Superiores and Inferiores: the lower or wider part was
the Caystrian plain. It appears that these natural divisions determined in some
measure the political divisions of the valley, and the Caystriani, and the Lower
and Upper Cilbiani, had each their several mints. (Leake, Asia Minor, &c. p. 257.)
The lower valley of the Cayster is a wide flat, and the alluvial soil, instead
of being skirted by a range of lower hills, as it is in the valleys of the Hermus
and the Maeander, abuts at once on the steep limestone mountains by which it is
bounded. (Hamilton, Asia Minor, &c. vol. i. p. 541.) After heavy rains the Cayster
rises suddenly, and floods the lower plains. The immense quantity of earth brought
down by it was a phenomenon that did not escape the observation of the Greeks,
who observed that the earth which was brought down raised the plain of the Cayster,
and in fact had made it. (Strab. p. 691.) The alluvium of the river damaged the
harbour of Ephesus, which was at the mouth of the river.
The flat swampy level at the mouth of the Cayster appears to be the
Asian plain (Asios leimon) of Homer (Il. ii. 461), a resort of wild fowl. (Comp.
Virg. Georg. i. 383, Aen. vii. 699.) Except Ephesus, the valley of the Cayster
contained no great town. Strabo mentions Hypaepa on the slope of Tmolus, on the
descent to the plain of the Cayster. It was of course north of the river. The
ruins at Tyria or Tyre, near the river, and about the middle of its course, must
represent some ancient city. Metropolis seems to lie near the road from Ephesus
to Smyrna, and in the plain of the Phyrites; and the modern name of Tourbali is
supposed to be a corruption of Metropolis.
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Ο ποταμός Κάυστρος θεωρούνταν πατέρας του Εφέσου (Παυσ. 7,2,7).
ΚΑΡΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Ορος της Καρίας (Ιλ. Β 868).
ΛΥΔΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Στη Λυδία, στις υπώρειες του όρους Τμώλου (Ιλ. Υ 391).
Ερρεε ανάμεσα στη Λυδία και την Καρία. Ο Παυσανίας αναφέρει ότι στις όχθες του φύτρωναν άφθονες μυρίκες (Παυσ. 5,14,3).
Maeander (Maiandros: Meinder or Boyuk Meinder), a celebrated river in Asia Minor, has its sources not far from Celaenae in Phrygia (Xenoph. Anab. i. 2. § 7), where it gushed forth in a park of Cyrus. According to some (Strab. xii. p. 578; Maxim. Tyr. viii. 38) its sources were the same as those of the river Marsyas; but this is irreconcilable with Xenophon, according to whom the sources of the two rivers were only near each other, the Marsyas rising in a royal palace. Others, again, as Pliny (v. 31), Solinus (40. § 7), and Martianus Capella (6. p. 221), state that the Maeander flowed out of a lake on Mount Aulocrene. Col. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 158, &c.) reconciles all these apparently different statements by the remark that both the Maeander and the Marsyas have their origin in the lake on Mount Aulocrene, above Celaenae, but that they issue at different parts of the mountain below the lake. The Maeander was so celebrated in antiquity for its numerous windings, that its name became, and still is, proverbial. (Hom. Il. ii. 869; Hesiod, Theog. 339; Herod. vii. 26, 30 Strab. xii. p. 577; Paus. viii. 41. § 3; Ov. Met. viii. 162, &c.; Liv. xxxviii. 13; Senec. Herc. Fur. 683, &c., Phoen. 605.) Its whole course has a south-western direction on the south of the range of Mount Messogis. In the south of Tripolis it receives the waters of the Lycus, whereby it becomes a river of some importance. Near Carura it passes from Phrygia into Caria, where it flows in its tortuous course through the Maeandrian plain (comp. Strab. xiv. p. 648, xv. p. 691), and finally discharges itself in the Icarian sea, between Priene and Myus, opposite to Miletus, from which its mouth is only 10 stadia distant. (Plin. l. c.; Paus. ii. 5. § 2.) The tributaries of the Maeander are the Orgyas, Marsyas, Clydrus, Lethaeus, and Gaeson, in the north; and the Obrimas, Lycus, Harpasus, and a second Marsyas in the south. The Maeander is everywhere a very deep river (Nic. Chonat. p. 125; Liv. l. c.), but not very broad, so that in many parts its depth equals its breadth. As moreover it carried in its waters a great quantity of mud, it was navigable only for small craft. (Strab. xii. p. 579, xiv. p. 636.) It frequently overflowed its banks; and, in consequence of the quantity of its deposits at its mouth, the coast has been pushed about 20 or 30 stadia further into the sea, so that several small islands off the coast have become united with the mainland. (Paus. viii. 24. § 5; Thucyd. viii. 17.) There was a story about a subterraneous connection between the Maeander and the Alpheius in Elis. (Paus. il. 5. § 2; comp. Hamilton, Researches, vol. i. p. 525, foll., ii. p. 161, foll.)
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Ορος της Λυδίας, κοντά στις Σάρδεις (Ιλ. Β 866, Υ 385).
Tmolus (Tmolos), a mountain range on the south of Sardes, forming the watershed between the basins of the Hermus in the north and the Cayster in the south, and being connected in the east with Mount Messogis. It was said to have received its name from a Lydian king Timolus, whence Ovid (Met. vi. 16) gives this name to the mountain itself. Mount Tmolus was celebrated for the excellent wine growing on its slopes (Virg. Georg. ii. 97; Senec. Phoen. 602; Eurip. Bacch. 55, 64; Strab. xiv. p. 637; Plin. v. 30). It was equally rich in metals; and the river Pactolus, which had its source in Mount Tmolus, at one time carried from its interior a rich supply of gold. (Strab. xiii. pp. 591, 610, 625; Plin. xxxiii. 43; comp. Horn. Il. ii. 373; Aesch. Pers. 50; Herod. i. 84, 93, v. 101; Ptol. v. 2. § 13; Dion. Per. 831.) On the highest summit of Mount Tmolus, the Persians erected a marble watch-tower commanding a view of the whole of the surrounding country (Strab. xiii. p. 625). The Turks now call the mountain Bouz Dagh.
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Παραπόταμος του Ερμου στη Λυδία.
Είχε πάρει το όνομά του από το γιο της Γης Υλλο (Παυσ. 1,36,8).
A river of Lydia, falling into the Hermus on its north side.
Εύφορη περιοχή της Λυδίας κοντά στον Κάυστρο ποταμό (Ιλ. Β 461).
ΣΙΠΥΛΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΛΥΔΙΑ
Το όρος αναφέρεται από τον Ομηρο (Ιλ. Ω 615).
Κατά τον Παυσανία, στο όρος Σίπυλος υπήρχε Ιερό της Μητρός Πλαστήνης, λίμνη του Τάνταλου και ο τάφος του. Στην κορυφή του όρους υπήρχε θρόνος του Πέλοπα (Παυσ. 5,13,7).
Sipylus (Sipulos), a mountain of Lydia between the river Hermus and
the town of Smyrna; it is a branch of Mount Tmolus, running in a northwestern
direction along the Hermus. It is a rugged, much torn mountain, which seems to
owe its present form to violent convulsions of the earth. The mountain is mentioned
even in the Iliad, and was rich in metal. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 615; Strab. i. p. 58,
xii. p. 579, xiv. p. 680.) On the eastern slope of the mountain, there once existed,
according to tradition, an ancient city, called Tantalis, afterwards Sipylus,
the capital of the Maeonians, which was believed to have been swallowed up by
an earthquake, and plunged into a crater, afterwards filled by a lake, which bore
the name of Sale or Saloe (Strab. i. p. 58, xii. p. 579; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin.
v. 31; Paus. vii. 24. § 7). Pliny relates that the spot once occupied by Sipylus
was successively occupied by other towns, which he calls Archaeopolis, Colpe and
Lebade. Pausanias (v. 13. § 4) calls the lake the marsh of Tantalus, and adds
that his tomb was conspicuous near it, and that the throne of Pelops was shown
on the summit of the mountain above the temple of (Cybele) Plastene. The tops
of the houses of Sipylus were believed to have been seen under the water for some
time after (Paus. vii. 24. § 7); and some modern travellers, mistaking the ruins
of old Smyrna for those of Sipylus, imagine that they have discovered both the
remains of Sipylus and the tomb of Tantalus. Chandler (Travels in Asia Minor,
p. 331) thought that a small lake of limpid water at the north-eastern foot of
Mount Sipylus, not far from a sepulchre cut in the rock, might be the lake Sale;
but Hamilton (Researches, i. p. 49, foll.) has shown that the lake must be sought
for in the marshy district of Manissa.
In speaking of Mount Sipylus, we cannot pass over the story of Niobe,
alluded to by the poets, who is said to have been metamorphosed into stone on
that mountain in her grief at the loss of her children. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 614; Soph.
Antig. 822; Ov. Met. vi. 310; Apollod. iii. 5; Paus. viii. 2. § 3.) Pausanias
(i. 21. § 5) relates that he himself went to Mount Sipylus and saw the figure
of Niobe formed out of the natural rock; when viewed close he saw only the rock
and precipices, but nothing resembling a woman either weeping or in any other
posture; but standing at a distance you fancied you saw a woman in tears and in
an attitude of grief. This phantom of Niobe, says Chandler (p. 331), whose observation
has been confirmed by subsequent travellers, may be defined as an effect of a
certain portion of light and shade on a part of Sipylus, perceivable at a particular
point of view. Mount Sipylus now bears the name of Saboundji Dagh or Sipuli Dagh.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Mt. Sipylus: Perseus Encyclopedia
ΣΜΥΡΝΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Ποτάμι κοντά στη Σμύρνη (Παυσ. 7,5,3). Ο Παυσανίας χαρακτηρίζει το νερό του "ωραιότατο" και αναφέρει την παράδοση πως σε μια σπηλιά στις πηγές του συνέθεσε ο Ομηρος τα έπη του (Παυσ. 7,5,13).
ΚΑΡΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Οι Κάρες συμμετείχαν στον Τρωικό πόλεμο στο πλευρό των Τρώων (Ιλ. Β 867, Κ 428).
ΛΑΡΙΣΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Η Λάρισα, πελασγική πόλη κοντά στην Κύμη της Αιολίδας, συμμετείχε στον Τρωικό πόλεμο στο πλευρό των Τρώων υπό την αρχηγία του Ιπποθόου και του Πυλαίου, γιων του Λήθου (Ιλ. Β 841
ΛΥΔΙΑ (Αρχαία χώρα) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Αρχαίο όνομα της Λυδίας (Ιλ. Γ 401).
ΜΙΛΗΤΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Η Μίλητος, ιωνική πόλη της Καρίας, πήρε μέρος στον Τρωικό πόλεμο στο πλευρό των Τρώων (Ιλ. Β 868).
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