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Town in Aiolis 24 km SW of Bergama. Said to have been founded by the
Athenian Menestheus at the time of the Trojan War (Strab. 622), but not a member
of the Aiolian League. Assessed in the Delian Confederacy at one-sixth of a talent,
Elaia acquired importance in the Hellenistic period as the port of the Pergamene
kings. Coins are known from the 5th and 4th c. B.C., and from the time of Augustus
to the 3d c. A.D. Later it was a bishopric under the metropolitan of Ephesos.
The ruins are scanty. Of the city wall, originally 3 m thick and built
in 234 B.C., only a few stray blocks can now be seen. The acropolis hill is barely
20 m high. The sea has receded since antiquity; harbor works were formerly visible,
but all that now remains is a solid wall some 200 m long runniflg out into the
mudflats. Nothing survives above ground in the necropolis to the N. Some ancient
stones turned up by the plough can be seen at the local coffee-house.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
An ancient city on the coast of Aeolis in Asia Minor, which at one time served as the harbour of Pergamus. The gulf on which it stood was named after it Sinus Elaiticus.
A titular see of Asia
Minor. Elaea, said to have been founded by Menestheus, was situated at a distance
of twelve stadia from the mouth of the Caicus, one hundred and twenty stadia from
Pergamus. It appears in history
about 450 B.C., at the time of the Athenian naval league. It belonged to Alexander,
then to the kings of Pergamus,
and was the port of the latter. In 190 B.C. it was besieged by Antiochus of Syria,
in 156 by Prusias, who ravaged all the country. It was partly destroyed in A.D.
90 by an earthquake. In its Roman period it struck coins. We know only three of
its bishops: Isaias in 451, Olbianus in 787, Theodulus in the twelfth century.
The city must have been destroyed either by the Mongols or by the
Turks. The ruins stand about three kilometres south of Kilisee Keui in the vilayet
of Smyrna. The Greek Church
also gives the title of Elaea to auxiliary bishops.
S. Petrides, ed.
Transcribed by: Gerald M. Knight
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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