Listed 7 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "KUSADASI Town TURKEY" .
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
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An aboriginal, founds sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus.
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)
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