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Amasis (king of Egypt) became a philhellene, and besides other services which he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in; and to those who travelled to the country without wanting to settle there, he gave lands where they might set up altars and make holy places for their gods. Of these the greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene. It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the cities that furnish overseers of the trading port; if any other cities advance claims, they claim what does not belong to them. The Aeginetans made a precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo.
Perseus Project - Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)
City of Egypt
on the Nile delta.
Naucratis was a Greek trading colony on the Nile
delta, initially founded by Milesians (settlers from the city of Miletus,
in Ionia) toward the beginning
of the XXVIth dynasty, in the time of Psammetichus I (664-610).
King Amasis of Egypt
(570-526) gave the city its automony, which made it a Greek city (the only one)
in Egypt, and the monopoly
of marine trade in Egypt.
The city was the site of several temples to Greek gods, but it also
had a temple to Egyptian gods Ammon and Theuth (identified by the Greeks with
Zeus and Hermes, respectively).
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
This extract is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
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