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MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Earth and father of Asterius, king of Anactoria (Miletus).
Anax. A giant, son of Uranus and Gaea, and father of Asterius. The legends of Miletus, which for two generations bore the name of Anactoria, described Anax as king of Anactoria ; but in the reign of his son the town and territory were conquered by the Cretan Miletus, who changed the name Anactoria into Miletus. (Paus. i. 35.5, vii. 2.3.)
KELENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Atys, Attys, Attes, Attis, or Attin (Atus). A son of Nana, and a beautiful shepherd
of the Phrygian town, Celaenae (Theocr. xx. 40; Philostr. Epist. 39; Tertul. de
Nat. 1). His story is related in different ways.
According to Ovid (Fast. iv. 221), Cybele loved the beautiful shepherd,
and made him her own priest on condition that he should preserve his chastity
inviolate. Atys broke the covenant with a nymph, the daughter of the river-god
Sangarius, and was thrown by the goddess into a state of madness, in which he
unmanned himself. When in consequence he wanted to put an end to his life, Cybele
changed him into a firtree, which henceforth became sacred to her, and she commanded
that, in future, her priests should be eunuchs.
Another story relates, that Atys, the priest of Cybele, fled into
a forest to escape the voluptuous embraces of a Phrygian king, but that he was
overtaken, and in the ensuing struggle unmanned his pursuer. The dying king avenged
himself by inflicting the same calamity upon Atys. Atys was found by the priests
of Cybele under a fir-tree, at the moment he was expiring. They carried him into
the temple of the goddess, and endeavoured to restore him to life, but in vain.
Cybele ordained that the death of Atys should be bewailed every year in solemn
lamentations, and that henceforth her priests should be eunuchs.
A third account says, that Cybele, when exposed by her father, the
Phrygian king Maeon, was fed by panthers and brought up by shepherdesses, and
that she afterwards secretly married Atys, who was subsequently called Papas.
At this moment, Cybele was recognised and kindly received by her parents; but
when her connexion with Atys became known to them, Maeon ordered Attis, and the
shepherdesses among whom she had lived, to be put to death. Cybele, maddened with
grief at this act of her father, traversed the country amid loud lamentations
and the sound of cymbals. Phrygia was now visited by an epidemic and scarcity.
The oracle commanded that Attis should be buried, and divine honours paid to Cybele;
but as the body of the youth was already in a state of decomposition, the funeral
honours were paid to an image of him, which was made as a substitute (Diod. iii.
58, &c.).
According to a fourth story related by Pausanias (vii. 17.5), Atys
was a son of the Phrygian king Calaus, and by nature incapable of propagating
his race. When he had grown up, he went to Lydia, where he introduced the worship
of Cybele. The grateful goddess conceived such an attachment for him, that Zeus
in his anger at it, sent a wild boar into Lydia, which killed many of the inhabitants,
and among them Atys also.
Atys was believed to be buried in Pessinus under mount Agdistis (Paus.
i. 4.5). He was worshipped in the temples of Cybele in common with this goddess
(vii. 20.; Hesych. s. v. Attes) In works of art he is represented as a shepherd
with flute and staff. His worship appears to have been introduced into Greece
at a comparatively late period. It is an ingenious opinion of Boettiger (Amalthea,
i), that the mythus of Atys represents the twofold character of nature, the male
and female, concentrated in one.
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Lityerses (Lituerses), a natural son of Midas, lived at Celaenae in Phrygia, engaged in rural pursuits, and hospitably received all strangers that passed his house, but he then compelled them to assist him in the harvest, and whenever they allowed themselves to be surpassed by him in their work, he cut off their heads in the evening, and concealed their bodies in the sheaves, accompanying his deed with songs. Heracles, however, slew him, and threw his body into the Maeander. The Phrygian reapers used to celebrate his memory in a harvestsong which bore the name of Lityerses (Schol. ad Theocrit. x. 41; Athen. x. p. 615, xiv. p. 619; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1164; Hesych., Phot., Suid. s. v.; Pollux, iv. 54).
LATMOS (Mountain) KARIA
Endumion. In Greek mythology, the beautiful son of Aethlius
(or, according to another story, of Zeus) and Calyce, daughter of Aeolus, king
of Elis, father of Epeus, Aetolus, and Paeon, the first of whom won the government
of the country by conquering in a race which his father had set on foot. He was
loved by Selene, the moon-goddess, by whom he had fifty daughters. They were supposed
to symbolize the fifty lunar months which intervened between the Olympic Games.
His grave was at Olympia. Another story made him a shepherd or hunter on Mount
Latmos in Caria. Zeus bestowed on him eternal youth and eternal life in the form
of unbroken slumber. Selene descended every night from heaven to visit and embrace
the beautiful sleeper in his grotto. The usual story, however, makes Selene to
have thrown him into a sleep so that she might kiss and caress him without his
knowledge. A beautiful statue in the British Museum represents Endymion, and the
legend inspired Keats to write one of the most exquisite poems in English literature.
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Endymion (Endumion), a youth distinguished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a combination of the two. According to the first set of legends, he was a son of Aethlius and Calyce,or of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aethlius in the kingdom of Elis (Paus. v. 1.2). Others again say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian settlers from Thessaly (Apollod. i. 7.5, &c.; Paus. v. 8.1). Conon (Narrat 14) calls him a son of Zeus and Protogencia, and Hyginus (Fab. 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to have been married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neis, or Iphianassa; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eurydice, and Naxus are called his children. He was, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom he had fifty daughters (Paus. v. 1.2). He caused his sons to engage in the race-course at Olympia, and promised to the victor the succession in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers, and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was believed to be buried at Olympia, which also contained a statue of his in the treasury of the Metapontians (Paus. vi. 19.8, 20.6). According to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, Endymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius; Paus. v. 1. § 4; Ov. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii. 299). He is described by the poets either as a king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49, xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slumbering in a cave of mount Latmus, Selene came down to him, kissed, and lay by his side (Comp. Apollon. Rhod. iv. 57). There also he had, in later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn in a cave of mount Latmus (Paus. v. 1.4; Strab. xiv.). His eternal sleep on Latmus is assigned to different causes in ancient story. Some said that Zeus had granted him a request, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eternal sleep, and everlasting youth (Apollod. i. 7.5.); others relate that he was received among the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49). Others, lastly, state that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty, sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss him without being observed by him (Cic. Tuscal. i. 38). The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the darling of Selene, are unquestionably poetical fictions, in which sleep is personified. His name and all his attributes confirm this opinion : Endymion signifies a being that gently comes over one; he is called a king, because he has power over all living creatures; a shepherd, because he slumbered in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, "the mount of oblivion". Nothing can be more beautiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by the soft rays of the moon (Comp. Plat. Phaed.; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43). There is a beautiful statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British Museum.
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Selene. The Greek goddess of the moon, daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Eos. She was described as a beautiful woman with long wings and golden diadem, from which she shed a mild light, riding in a car drawn by two white horses or mules or cows. The horns of the latter symbolized the crescent moon. In later times she was identified with Artemis (or else with Hecate and Persephone), as was Helios with Phoebus Apollo, and therefore was herself called Phoebe. After this she was also regarded as a huntress and archer, recognizable by her crescent as the goddess of the moon. She was worshipped on the days of the new and full moon. She bore to Zeus a daughter, Pandia, worshipped at Athens with her father at the festival of Pandia. On her love for Endymion, see Endymion. The Romans called her Luna, and had two temples to her at Rome--one on the Aventine and one on the Palatine.
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PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Telephus was the son of Heracles and Auge, daughter of Aleus. He succeeded Teuthras in the princedom of Mysia.
KYMI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hellanicus and Herodotus and Eudoxus have foisted on us and placing the Amazons between Mysia and Caria and Lydia near Cyme, which is the opinion also of Ephorus, who was a native of Cyme.
ATHYMVRA (Ancient city) KARIA
Athymbrus (Athumbros), Athymbradus (Athumbrados), and Hybrelus (Hrdrelos), three brothers,
who came from Lacedaemon, and founded cities in Lydia, which were called by their
names. These cities were afterwards deserted by their inhabitants, who founded
together the town of Nysa, whence the latter regarded Athymbrus as its founder
(Strab. xiv.; Steph. Byz. s.v. Athumbra).
ATHYMVRADA (Ancient city) KARIA
Legendary heroe of Sparta (Steph. Byz.)
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Rhadamanthys, founds Erythrae.
Erythrus. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Erythraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. vii. 3.4.) There are two other mythical personages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Erythraean Sea, are said to have received their names respectively. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267; Steph. Byz. s. v. Eruthra; Curtius, viii. 9.)
NYSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The story is told that three brothers, Athymbrus and Athymbradus and Hydrelus, who came from Lacedaemon, founded the three cities which were named after them, but that the cities later became scantily populated, and that the city Nysa was founded by their inhabitants; but that Athymbrus is now regarded by them as their original founder (Strab. 14,1,46). Legendary heroe of Sparta (Steph. Byz.).
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Teos, at first was founded by Athamas (from Orchomenos), for which reason it is by Anacreon called Athamantis, and at the time of the Ionian colonization by Nauclus, bastard son of Codrus, and after him by Apoecus and Damasus, who were Athenians, and Geres, a Boeotian.
DIDYMA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Branchus: Father of Cercyon. Argiope: A nymph, mother of Cercyon.
Branchus (Branchos), a son of Apollo or Smicrus of Delphi. His mother, a Milesian woman, dreamt at the time she gave birth to him, that the sun was passing through her body, and the seers interpreted this as a favourable sign. Apollo loved the boy Branchus for his great beauty, and endowed him with prophetic power, which he exercised at Didyma, near Miletus. Here he founded an oracle, of which his descendants, the Branchidae, were the priests, and which was held in great esteem, especially by the lonians and Aeolians. (Herod. i. 157; Strab. xiv., xvii.; Lutat. ad Stat. Theb. viii. 198; Conon, Narrat. 33; Luc. Dial. Deor. 2.)
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ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Sons of Poseidon and Alcyone, from Troezenia.
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
. . . Elaea, with harbor and naval station belonging to the Attalic Kings, which was founded by Menestheus and the Athenians who took the expedition with him to Ilium.
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Phocaea was founded by the Athenians under Philogenes (Strabo). Ships for the voyage were given to the Phocians by Philogenes and Damon, Athenians and sons of Euctemon, who themselves led the colony (Pausanias)
KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
A Colophonian.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Colophon was founded by Andraemon a Pylian, according to Mimnermus in his Nanno
LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Borus, slays Xanthus, son of Ptolemy.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletus was founded by Neleus, a Pylian by birth.
Son of Zeus by Europa or Laodamia, Minos' brother, his banishment by Minos and his rule in Lycia, quarrels with Minos and flies from him, flees from Crete to Lycia, becomes king of Lycia, leader of the Lycians at Troy, killed by Patroclus, Sarpedon and Memnon painted by Polygnotus.
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Myus was founded by Cydrelus, bastard son of Codrus
MYRINA (Ancient city) TURKEY
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
PRIINI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Priene was founded by Aepytus the son of Neleus (of Miletos), and then later by Philotas, who brought a colony from Thebes
A Theban, descendant of Peneleos, joint founder of Priene.
Priene is by some writers called Cadme, since Philotas, who founded it, was a Boeotian
PYGELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Pygela, a small town, with a temple of Artemis Munychia, founded by Agamemnon and inhabited by a part of his troops
SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
SYRNA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Aesculapius, suitor of Helen, leader of the Triccaeans against Troy, heals Philoctetes, goes to Colphon and helps to bury Calchas, consults the oracle at Delphi and settles in the Carian Chersonese, after Trojan war settles at Syrnus in Caria, picture of.
TRIOPION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Triopas became king of the Thessalians and in trying to roof his own house, tore down the old temple of Demeter. For this reason he incurred the hatred of the Thessalians and fled to Chersonesus and Caria where he founded Triopium in the territory of Cnidus. Some say that, because he had offended Demeter, hunger was brought on him and that no amount of food could satisfy him. It is say that the same happened to his son Erysichthon for having cut down a sacred oak.
Triopas and Triops. A son of Poseidon and Canace, a daughter of Aeolus, or of Helios (the Sun) and Rhodos, and the father of Iphimedia and Erysichthon. Hence his son Erysichthon is called Triopeius, and his granddaughter Mestra or Metra, the daughter of Erysichthon, Triopeis. He is said to have expelled the Pelasgians from a part of Thessaly, but was himself at last obliged to leave the country, when he went to Caria in Asia Minor and founded Cnidus, hence called Triopia. He or his son Erysichthon violated the sacred grove of Demeter, for which he was punished with endless hunger.
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ASSISOS (Ancient city) IONIA
Assesia, a surname of Athena, derived from the town of Assesus in Ionia, where she had a temple. (Herod. i. 19.)
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gryneus, (Gruneios), a surname of Apollo, under which he had a temple, an ancient oracle, and a beautiful grove near the town of Grynion, Gryna, or Grynus in Aeolis in Asia Minor. (Paus. i. 21.9; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72; Athen. iv.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Trunoi.) Under the similar, if not the same name, Truneus, Apollo was worshipped in the Hecatonnesi. (Strab. xiii.) Ovid (Met. xii. 260) mentions a centaur of the name of Gryneus.
KELENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
A Silenus of Phrygian legend (really god of the river of the
same name near the old Phrygian town Celaenae), son of Hyagnis or of Olympus.
He was the typical player on the flute. Among the Phrygians the flute entered
into the worship of Cybele and Dionysus, and Marsyas is said to have instructed
Olympus in playing upon that instrument. According to a Greek legend, Athene had
invented the flute, and then cast it aside because it distorted the features of
the player. Marsyas took it up, and became so skilful as to challenge Apollo,
the patron god of the lyre. The Muses having declared him vanquished, the god
flayed him; his skin was hung up in the cave from which the river Marsyas issued,
and was said to move about joyfully when a flute was played. King Midas, who had
decided in his favour, received as punishment from Apollo a pair of ass's ears.
The contest was a favourite subject in art.
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Marsyas (Marsuas), a mythological personage, connected with the earliest period
of Greek music. He is variously called the son of Hyagnis, or of Oeagrus, or of
Olympus. Some make him a satyr, others a peasant. All agree in placing him in
Phrygia. The following is the outline of his story, according to the mythographers.
Athena having, while playing the flute, seen the reflection of herself in water,
and observed the distortion of her features, threw away the instrument in disgust.
It was picked up by Marsyas, who no sooner began to blow through it than the flute,
having once been inspired by the breath of a goddess, emitted of its own accord
the most beautiful strains. Elated by his success, Marsyas was rash enough to
challenge Apollo to a musical contest, the conditions of which were that the victor
should do what he pleased with the vanquished. The Muses, or, according to others,
the Nysaeans, were the umpires. Apollo played upon the cithara, and Marsyas upon
the flute; and it was not till the former added his voice to the music of his
lyre that the contest was decided in his favour. As a just punishment for the
presumption of Marsyas, Apollo bound him to a tree, and flayed him alive. His
blood was the source of the river Marsyas, and Apollo hung up his skin in the
cave out of which that river flows. His flutes (for, according to some, the instrument
on which he played was the double flute) were carried by the river Marsyas into
the Maeander, and again emerging in the Asopus, were thrown on land by it in the
Sicyonian territory, and were dedicated to Apollo in his temple at Sicyon. (Apollod.
Bibl. i. 4. 2; Palaeph. de Incredib. 48; Liban. Narrat. 14, p. 1104; Nonn. Narrat.
ad Greg. Invect. ii. 10, p. 164; Diod. iii. 58, 59; Paus. ii. 7. 9; Herod. vii.
26; Xen. Anab. i. 2. 8; Plut. de Fluv. 10; Hygin. Fab. 165; Ovid, Metam. vi. 382,
400.) The fable evidently refers to the struggle between the citharoedic and auloedic
styles of music, of which the former was connected with the worship of Apollo
among the Dorians, and the latter with the orgiastic rites of Cybele in Phrygia.
It is easy to apply this explanation to the different parts of the legend; and
it may be further illustrated by other traditions respecting Marsyas. He is made
by some the inventor of the flute, by others of the double flute. ( Plut. de Mus.
p. 1132, a.; Suid. s. v. ; Athen. iv. p. 184, a., xiv. p. 616, 617; Plin. H. N.
vii. 56.) By a confusion between the mythical and the historical, the flute-player
Olympus is made his son, or by some his father. He is spoken of as a follower
of Cybele (Diod. l. c.), and he occupies, in fact, the same place in the orgiastic
worship of Cybele that Seilenus does in the worship of Dionysus: Pausanias (l.
c.) actually calls him Seilenus, and other writers connect him with Dionysus.
The story of Marsyas was often referred to by the lyric and epigrammatic
poets (Bode, Gesch. d. Lyr. Dichtk. vol. ii. pp. 296, 297; Brunck, Anal. vol.
i. p. 488, vol. ii. p. 97), and formed a favourite subject for works of art. (Muller,
Archaeol. d. Kunst, 362. n. 4.) In the fora of ancient cities there was frequently
placed a statue of Marsyas, with one hand erect, in token, according to Servius,
of the freedom of the state, since Marsyas was a minister of Bacchus, the god
of liberty. (Serv. in Aen. iv. 528.) It seems more likely that the statue, standing
in the place where justice was administered, was intended to hold forth an example
of the severe punishment of arrogant presumption. (Bottiger, Kleine Schriften,
vol. i. p. 28.) The statue of Marsyas in the forum of Rome is well known by the
allusions of Horace (Sat. i. 6. 120), Juvenal (Sat. ix. 1,2),and Martial (ii.
64. 7). This statue was the place of assembly for the courtezans of Rome, who
used to crown it with chaplets of flowers. (Plin. H. N. xxi. 3; Senec. de Benef.
vi. 32; Lipsins, Antiq. Lect. 3.)
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Marsyas the Silenus : Picks up flutes of Athena, plays on flute, composes Mother's Air, defends Celaenae against Gauls, defeated in a musical contest with Apollo, flayed and hung on a pinetree, the "Silenus" according to legend worsted in a musical competition and flayed by Apollo, his flutes dedicated to Apollo at Sicyon, represented in art.
KLAROS (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Clarius (Klarios), a surname of Apollo, derived from his celebrated temple at Claros in
Asia Minor, which had been founded by Manto, the daughter of Teiresias, who, after
the conquest of her native city of Thebes, was made over to the Delphic god, and
was then sent into the country, where subsequently Colophon was built by the Ionians
(Paus. vii. 3.1, ix. 33.1; Tacit. Ann. ii. 54; Strab. xiv.; Virg. Aen. iii. 360).
Clarius also occurs as a surname of Zeus, describing him as the god who distributes
things by lot (klaros or kleros, Aeschyl. Suppl. 360). A hill near Tegea was sacred
to Zeus under this name (Paus. viii. 53.4)
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cnidia (Knidia), a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cnidus in Caria, for which Praxiteles made his celebrated statue of the goddess. The statue of Aphrodite known by the name of the Medicean Venus, is considered by many critics to be a copy of the Cnidian Aphrodite. (Paus. i. 1.3; Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5; Lucian, Amor. 13)
LADI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Asterius (Asterios), a son of Anax and grandson of Ge. According to a Milesian legend, he was buried in the small island of Lade, and his body measured ten cubits in length (Paus. i. 35.5, vii. 2.3). There are four other mythical personages of this name, who are mentioned in the following passages: Apollod. iii. 1.4 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 176; Apollod. i. 9.9; Hygin. Fab. 170.
LEUCOPHRYS (Ancient small town) TURKEY
Leucophryne (Leukophrune). A surname of Artemis, derived from the town of Leucophrys
in Phrygia, where, as well as at Magnesia on the Maeander, she had a splendid
temple (Xenoph. Hellen. iii. 2.19; Strab. xiv.7; Tac. Ann. iii. 62; Athen. xv.).
The sons of Themistocles dedicated a statue to her on the Acropolis at Athens,
because Themistocles had once ruled at Magnesia (Paus. i. 26. 4; Thuc. i. 138;
Plut. Themist. 29). There was also a statue of her at Amyclae, which had been
dedicated by the Magnesian Bathycles (Paus. iii. 18. 6). Her temple at Magnesia
had been built by Hermogenes, who had also written a work upon it. (Vitruv. vii.
Praef. 3, 1).
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MYLASSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Carius (Karios), the Carian, a surname of Zeus, under which he had a temple at Mylassa in Caria, which belonged to the Carians, Lydians, and Mysians in common, as they were believed to be brother nations (Herod. i. 171, v. 66; Strab. xiv.). In Thessaly and Boeotia, Zeus was likewise worshipped under this name. (Phot. Lex. s. v.)
THYMBRIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Thymbraeus (Thumbraios), surname of Apollo, derived from a place in Troas called Thynmbra, where he had a temple in which Achilles was wounded, or from a neighboring hill of the same name. (Strab. xiii.; Steph. Byz. s. v. Thumbra; Eurip. Rhes. 224; Serv. ad Acn. iii. 85 ; Horn. Il. x. 430.)
SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
That Iolaus himself died at Sardis along with the Athenians and Thespians who made the crossing with him is admitted even by the Thebans themselves.
IONIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Codrus, leader of Ionians, husband of Gorge, daughter of Oeneus, father of Thoas.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An aboriginal, founds sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus.
EGIROESSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Herakles and Auge, king of the Mysians.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Idmon. The father of Arachne, a native of Colophon. Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Herakles by Omphale, from whom the family of Croesus was descended
Commentary:
According to Hdt. 1.7 the dynasty which preceded that of Croesus on the throne
of Sardes traced their descent from Alcaeus, the son of Herakles by a slave girl.
It is a curious coincidence that Croesus, like his predecessor or ancestor Herakles,
is said to have attempted to burn himself on a pyre when the Persians captured
Sardes. See Bacch. 3.24-62. The tradition is supported by the representation of
the scene on a red-figured vase, which may have been painted about forty years
after the capture of Sardes and the death or captivity of Croesus. See Baumeister,
Denkmaler des klassischen Altertums, ii.796, fig. 860. Compare Adonis, Attis,
Osiris, 3rd ed. i.174ff. The Herakles whom Greek tradition associated with Omphale
was probably an Oriental deity identical with the Sandan of Tarsus
Pythius (Puthios). A Lydian, the son of Atys. He was a man of enormous wealth, which he derived from his gold mines in the neighbourhood of Celaenae in Phrygia. When Xerxes arrived at Celaenae, Pythius banqueted him and his whole army. His five sons accompanied Xerxes. Pythius, alarmed by an eclipse of the sun which happened, came to Xerxes, and begged that the eldest might be left behind. This request so enraged the king that he had the young man immediately killed and cut in two, and the two portions of his body placed on either side of the road, and then ordered the army to march between them ( Herod.vii. 21).
Closter, the son of Arachne, invented the spindle for spinning wool; Arachne herself, linen cloth and nets;
Hyllus, (Hullos). A son of Ge, from whom the river Hyllus in Lydia was believed to have derived its name. His gigantic bones were shown in Lydia at a very late period. (Paus. i. 35. in fin.)
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Grynus, a son of the Mysian Eurypylus, who after his father's death invited Pergamus, the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache, to assist him against his enemies. After he had gained a victory over them, he built, in commemoration of it, two towns, Pergamus and Grynus. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 72)
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hiera, the wife of Telephus, who in the Trojan war commanded the Mysian women on horseback. Late traditions described her as excelling in beauty Helena herself. She fell by the hand of Nireus. (Philostr. Her. ii. 18.)
ALAVANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
According to Stephanos from Byzantion, king Kar gave this name to the city upon his son Alabadros's victory at horse race.
Alabandus (Alabandos), a Carian hero, son of Euippus and Calirrhoe, whom the inhabitants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of their town. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Alabanda; Cic. de Nat. Deor. iii. 15, 19.)
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaea (Anaia), an Amazon, from whom the town of Anaea in Caria derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s.v. ; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 828)
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ephesus (Ephesos), a son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said, conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. (Paus. vii. 2.4)
And there are certain cities, it is said, which got their names from the Amazons, I mean Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina.
Caystrius (Kaustrios), a son of Achilles and the Amazon Penthesileia, from whom the river Caystrus was believed to have derived its name. Caystrius, together with Asius, had a heroum on the banks of that river. (Strab. xiv.; Serv. ad Aen. xi. 661)
GRYNIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gryne, an Amazon, from whom the Gryneian grove in Asia Minor was believed to have derived its name, for it was said that Apollo had there embraced her. (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 345.)
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Phoroneus, the first man on earth, from Argos.
Car (Kar), a son of Phoroneus, and king of Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name Caria (Paus. i. 39.4, 40.5) His tomb was shewn as late as the time of Pausanias, on the road from Megara to Corinth. (i. 44.9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of Lydus and Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the Carians, is mentioned by Herodotus. (i. 171)
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletus, (Miletos). The son of Apollo and Aria of Crete, who
fled from Minos to Asia, where he built the city of Miletus. Ovid ( Met.ix. 442)
calls him a son of Apollo and Deione, and hence Deionides.
Areia, a daughter of Cleochus, by whom Apollo became the father of Miletus. (Apollod. iii. 1.2)
TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Neoptolemus and Andromache, conquers Teuthrania and calls it Pergamus (Perseus Encyclopedia).
VARGASA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Bargasus (Barpsasos), a son of Heracles and Barge, from whom the town of Bargasa in Caria derived its name. He had been expelled by Lamus, the son of Omphale. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Barpsasa.)
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, .. were ruled by Ancaeus
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Damasichthon: Son of Codrus, king of Colophon. Promethus: Son of Codrus, leader of Ionians, king of Colophon, slays his brother and flees to Naxos.
LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Atys, a son of Manes, king of the Maeonians, from whose son Lydus, his son and successor, the Maeonians were afterwards called Lydians. (Herod. i. 7, vii. 74.) Herodotus (i. 94; comp. Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 26, 28; Tacit. Annal. iv. 55) mentions Tyrrhenus as another son of Atys; and in another passage (iv. 45), he speaks of Cotys as the son of Manes, instead of Atys.
Iardanes, a king of Lydia, and father of Omphale, who is hence called nympha Iardanis (Apollod. ii. 6.3; Ov. Heroid. ix. 103). Herodotus (i. 7) calls the Heracleidae in Lydia descendants of Heracles and a female slave of lardanus.
Husband of Omphale
Herakles stays with, mistress of Herakles, daughter of Iardanus (Iardanes), queen of Lydia, buys Herakles as a slave, his servitude with her, mother of Agelaus by Herakles.
Omphale. The daughter of the Lydian king Iardanus, and wife of Tmolus, on whose death she governed the kingdom herself. When Heracles was cursed with a dangerous disease as a punishment for the slaying of Iphitus, the oracle informed him that he could only be cured by serving for hire for a period of three years. To effect the cure, Hermes sold him to Omphale, with whom he fell in love, and to please her put on her garments and spun wool, while she wore his lion skin. By him she had several children.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Omphale : Perseus Project Index
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