Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "SMYRNI Ancient city TURKEY".
City, taken by Achilles, in Lydia, attacked by Gyges, taken by Allyattes, its transference from Aeolians to Ionians, road from Sardis to Smyrna, one of twelve Aeolian cities, seized by Ionians of Colophon, included in Ionia by Ol. 23, later city founded by Alexander the Great, Lydians under Gyges expelled from, sanctuary of Aesculapius at, image of Fortune at, games at, river Meles at, Music Hall at, sanctuary of the Nemeses at, holy wingless images of Nemeses at, divination by voices practised at.
Next one comes to another gulf, on which is the old Smyrna, twenty stadia distant from the present Smyrna. After Smyrna had been razed by the Lydians, its inhabitants continued for about four hundred years to live in villages. Then they were reassembled into a city by Antigonus, and afterwards by Lysimachus, and their city is now the most beautiful of all; a part of it is on a mountain and walled, but the greater part of it is in the plain near the harbor and near the Metroum and near the gymnasium. The division into streets is exceptionally good, in straight lines as far as possible; and the streets are paved with stone; and there are large quadrangular porticoes, with both lower and upper stories. There is also a library; and the Homereium, a quadrangular portico containing a shrine and wooden statue of Homer; for the Smyrnaeans also lay especial claim to the poet; and indeed a bronze coin of theirs is called Homereium.
The River Meles flows near the walls; and, in addition to the rest of the city's equipment, there is also a harbor that can be closed. But there is one error, not a small one, in the work of the engineers, that when they paved the streets they did not give them underground drainage; instead, filth covers the surface, and particularly during rains, when the cast-off filth is discharged upon the streets. It was here that Dolabella captured by siege, and slew, Trebonius, one of the men who treacherously murdered the deified Caesar; and he set free many parts of the city.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!
