Listed 13 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "KUSADASI Town TURKEY" .
PANIONION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
The Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia.
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Opposite Samos.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City, named after Ephesus, in Lydia, of Ionian origin, one of the most remarkable temples known to Herodotus, later city founded by Lysimachus, prosperity of Ephesus, river, spring, and mountain in land of E., temple of Artemis at E. the largest building in world, sanctuary of Ephesian goddess (Artemis) the largest and richest in Ionia, Amazons sacrifice to Ephesian goddess, statues of Conon and Timotheus in sanctuary of Ephesian goddess at Ephesus, quarter called Coresus at E., Ionians defeated there by Persians, terminus of "royal road", Xerxes' sons sent there after Salamis, the Cercopes at, Lysander defeats Athenian fleet at E., Croesus' offerings in the temple of Artemis there, Ephesus besieged by Croesus, Ephesians occupy Samos, but are afterwards expelled, dedicate statue of Lysander and other Spartans.
PANIONION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
An Ionian place of meeting for council or ceremonial, near Mycale, federal assembly of Ionians at, Ionians sacrifice at.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cistophorus (kistophoros) was a term applied to certain silver coins issued in
Western Asia Minor, in consequence of the type with which they were impressed,
a Dionysiac cista out of which a serpent glides. The other side of the coin bears
the name or monogram of the city of issue. According to Dr. Imhoof (Die Munzen
der Dynastie von Pergamon, p. 33), this coin originated in Ephesus shortly before
B.C. 200, and its use rapidly extended throughout the dominions of Attalus I.
of Pergamum. Henceforth the cistophorus became a sort of Pan-Asiatic coin, . .
. and was issued in vast quantities from numerous Asiatic mints (Head, Historia
Numorum, p. 461). (Cf. Liv. xxxvii. 46, 58, 59, xxxix. 7; Cic. ad Att. ii. 6,
2, ii. 16, 4, xi. 1, 2; pro Dom. 20, 52.) Mommsen assigns a somewhat later date
(reign of Eumenes II., B.C. 189-159), and therefore disbelieves the statement
of Livy (l. c.), that after the defeat of Antiochus III. in B.C. 190, large numbers
of cistophori were brought to Rome by the conquerors. They continued to be the
currency of the Roman province of Asia even under the Antonines, and many bear
the heads of early Roman emperors.
The coins or staters weigh up to 196 grains; the question of their
value in exchange has been confused from the fact that the ancient writers sometimes
consider them as tetradrachms and sometimes as didrachms. According to Festus
(p. 359), the cistophoric stater was regarded as equivalent to three Roman denarii,
which, however, it outweighed by about fifteen grains: other authorities give
a still lower valuation. The cistophoric drachm, or quarter of the stater, is
said by Festus to have been equal to the Rhodian drachm, and it is likely that
the whole coinage was introduced by the Pergamene kings to succeed that of Rhodes
at a time when the decay of Rhodes had set in. (Mommsen, R. M., pp. 48, 703; Numismatic
Chronicle, 1883, p. 196.)
This text is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The city of Ephesus was inhabited both by Carians and by Leleges, but Androclus drove them out and settled the most of those who had come with him round the Athenaeum and the Hypelaeus, though he also included a part of the country situated on the slopes of Mt. Coressus. Now Ephesus was thus inhabited until the time of Croesus, but later the people came down from the mountainside and abode round the present temple until the time of Alexander. Lysimachus built a wall round the present city, but the people were not agreeably disposed to change their abodes to it; and therefore he waited for a downpour of rain and himself took advantage of it and blocked the sewers so as to inundate the city; and the inhabitants were then glad to make the change. He named the city after his wife Arsinoe; the old name, however, prevailed. There was a senate, which was conscripted; and with these were associated the Epilecti, as they were called, who administered all the affairs of the city.
IRAKLEOTIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Of these revenues, though sacred, the kings deprived the goddess, but the Romans gave them back; and again the tax-gatherers forcibly converted the tolls to their own use; but when Artemidorus was sent on an embassy, as he says, he got the lakes back for the goddess, and he also won the decision over Heracleotis, which was in revolt, his case being decided at Rome; and in return for this the city erected in the temple a golden image of him.
LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Theopompus speaks of another city Larisa situated on the same common boundary; and in Asia is a Larisa Phryconis near Cyme; and also the Larisa near Hamaxitis in the Troad; and there is the Ephesian Larisa. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 9.5.19)
MARATHISSION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Panionium) comes Neapolis, which in earlier times belonged to the Ephesians, but now belongs to the Samians, who gave in exchange for it Marathesium, the more distant for the nearer place.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Panionium) comes Neapolis, which in earlier times belonged to the Ephesians, but now belongs to the Samians, who gave in exchange for it Marathesium, the more distant for the nearer place.
ORTYGIA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
On the same coast (of Ephesus), slightly above the sea, is also Ortygia, which is a magnificent grove of all kinds of trees, of the cypress most of all. It is traversed by the Cenchrius River, where Leto is said to have bathed herself after her travail. For here is the mythical scene of the birth, and of the nurse Ortygia, and of the holy place where the birth took place, and of the olive tree near by, where the goddess is said first to have taken a rest after she was relieved from her travail. Above the grove lies Mt. Solmissus, where, it is said, the Curetes stationed themselves, and with the din of their arms frightened Hera out of her wits when she was jealously spying on Leto, and when they helped Leto to conceal from Hera the birth of her children.
PANORMOS (Ancient port) KUSADASI
Then (from Neapolis) comes the harbor called Panormus, with a temple of the Ephesian Artemis; and then the city Ephesus
PYGELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Neapolis) comes Pygela, a small town, with a temple of Artemis Munychia, founded by Agamemnon and inhabited by a part of his troops; for it is said that some of his soldiers became afflicted with a disease of the buttocks and were called "diseased-buttocks," and that, being afflicted with this disease, they stayed there, and that the place thus received this appropriate name.
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