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LEUKAI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Leucae or Leuce (Leukai, Leuke) a small town of Ionia, in the neighbourhood
of Phocaea, was situated, according to Pliny (v. 31), in promontorio quod insula
fuit. From Scylax (p. 37) we learn that it was a place with harbours. According
to Diodorus (xv. 18) the Persian admiral Tachos founded this town on an eminence
on the sea coast, in B.C. 352; but shortly after, when Tachos had died, the Clazomenians
and Cymaeans quarrelled about its possession, and the former succeeded by a stratagem
in making themselves masters of it. At a later time Leucae became remarkable for
the battle fought in its neighbourhood between the consul Licinius Crassus and
Aristonicus, B.C. 131. (Strab. xiv. p. 646; Justin, xxxvi. 4.) Some have supposed
this place to be identical with the Leuconium mentioned by Thucydides (viii. 24);
but this is impossible, as this latter place must be looked for in Chios. The
site of the ancient Leucae cannot be a matter of doubt, as a village of the name
of Levke, close upon the sea, at the foot of a hill, is evidently the modern representative
of its ancient namesake. (Arundell, Seven Churches, p. 295.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Leukai) and Leuca (Leuke). A small town on the coast of Ionia in Asia Minor, near Phocaea, built by the Persian general Tachos in B.C. 352. Here was fought a battle between the Roman consul Licinius Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131.
Ionian city 30 km NW of Smyrna. Founded, according to Diodoros (15.18;
cf. 92), by the Persian Tachos. After his death it passed into the possession
of the Klazomenians, who obtained it by a trick against the Kymaians. Laukai supported
the pretender Aristonikos after 133 B.C. and was used by him as a base (Strab.
646). The coins, with the normal type of a swan (as at Klazomenai), are exclusively
of the 4th c. B.C.
Uc Tepeler lies in a prohibited zone and cannot normally be visited.
The site, formerly on a headland, is now some distance from the sea. Available
reports suggest that little is now to be seen apart from some remains of a circuit
wall of Classical date.
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.
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