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Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens or Citadel of Athens is the best known acropolis (Gr. akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city, pl. acropoleis) in the world. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as The Acropolis without qualification. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007. The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock that rises above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface area of about 3 hectares. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first Athenian king.
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Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea (, Egeo Pelagos ; ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus. The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes. The Aegean Region consists of nine provinces in southwestern Turkey, in part bordering on the Aegean sea.
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Alabanda
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Alaca Höyük
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Alexandria
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Alexandria Troas
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Alişar Hüyük
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Altıntepe
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Amorium
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Amyzon
: Amyzon is also a genus of Catostomid fishes.
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Anazarbus
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Ani
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Antioch
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Antioch, Pisidia
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Apamea (Phrygia)
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Areopagus
:This article concerns the place where a classical judicial body met. It is also the term for the judicial body which met there. For the 16th century literary movement, see Areopagus (poetry). For the regional government during the Greek War of Independence, see Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece. For the modern Greek Supreme Court, see Court of Cassation (Greece).
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Ariassos
Ariassos (or Ariasos) was a Pisidian city built at a height of 1050 meters in the Taurus Mountains (modern day Antalya province, Turkey).
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Arycanda
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Assos
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Attalid dynasty
The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire. One of Lysimachus' officers, Philetaerus, took control of the city in 282 BC. The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom. Attalus I proclaimed himself King in the 230s BC, following his victories over the Galatians. The Attalids ruled Pergamon until Attalus III bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC to avoid a likely succession crisis.
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Beycesultan
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Chalcedon
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Classical Athens
The city of Athens during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508-322 BC) was a notable polis (city-state) of Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. Athenian democracy was established in 508 BC under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias. This system remained remarkably stable, and with a few brief interruptions remained in place for 180 years, until 322 BC (aftermath of Lamian War) . The peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known as the Age of Pericles.
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Comana (Cappadocia)
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Corycus
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Cremna, Pisidia
:"Cremna" redirects here. This was also a genus of metalmark butterflies, now a junior synonym of Napaea (butterfly).
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Crete
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Cyprus
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Dara (Mesopotamia)
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Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (, ), formerly known as the Hellespont
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Derbe
Derbe is an ancient city in today's Turkey. This city is mentioned in the biblical book of Acts - (), () and was situated near ancient Lystra.
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Didim
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Didyma
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Docimium
Docimium, Docimia or Docimeium (Greek: and ) was an ancient city of Phrygia, Asia Minor where there were famous marble quarries. It remains a Roman Catholic titular see.
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Dorylaeum
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Ecbatana
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Elaiussa Sebaste
Elaiussa Sebaste or Elaeousa Sebaste () was an ancient Roman town located from Mersin in the direction of Silifke in Cilicia on the southern coast of Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). Elaiussa, meaning olive, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. on a tiny island attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus in Mediterranean Sea.
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Euchaita
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Faustinopolis
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Hacilar
Hacilar is an early human settlement in southwestern Turkey, 25 km southwest of present day Burdur. It has been dated back 7040 BC at its earliest stage of development. Archaeological remains indicate that the site was abandoned and reoccupied on more than one occasion in its history.
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Halicarnassus
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Harran
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Hierapolis
Hierapolis (Greek: 'holy city') was the ancient Greek city on top of hot springs located in south western Turkey near Denizli.
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Hüseyindede Tepe
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Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, and by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east. The islands are collectively referred to as the Ionian Islands, and other islands include the Strophades, Sphagia, Schiza, Sapientza and Kythira. The sea is one of the most seismic areas in the world.
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Issus (town)
Issus is an ancient settlement on the strategic coastal plain straddling the small Pinarus river (a fast melt-water stream several meters wide) below the navigationally difficult inland mountains towering above to the east in the Turkish Province of Hatay, near the border with Syria. It is most notable for being the place of no less than three decisive ancient or medieval battles each called in their own era the Battle of Issus where:
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Kaunos
Kaunos (Carian: Kbid;
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Kayaköy
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Knidos
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Kültepe
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Labraunda
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Lysimachia (Thrace)
Lysimachia () was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula) in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas (the modern Gulf of Saros).
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Marmara Region
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Medes
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Miletus
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Myra
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Myriandrus
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Myus
Myus, Caria (sometimes Myous or Myos) was an ancient city-state and was one of twelve major settlements formed in the Ionian Confederation, called the Ionian League. The city was said to have been founded by Cyaretus (sometimes called Cydrelus), a son of Codrus. Myus was a small peninsula, it is now however surrounded by land (fields). These fields do still flood but it is no longer a harbour town. Myus was also synoikised with Miletus. Myus had both a temple of Athena and a temple of Herodotus and sources tell us that it was always secondary to Miletos.
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Nevalı Çori
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Nicopolis (Pontus)
Nicopolis (, "city of victory") was a Roman colony founded by Pompey in 66 BC in the Pontus.
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Olba (ancient city)
Olba is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Isauria (a region of Asia Minor, in present Turkey), suffragan of Seleucia Trachea.
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Parthenon
The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: ) is a temple in the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector. Its construction began in 447 BCE and was completed in 438 BCE, although decorations of the Parthenon continued until 431 BCE. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy and one of the world's greatest cultural monuments. The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a programme of selective restoration and reconstruction to ensure the stability of the partially ruined structure.
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Peloponnese
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Pepuza
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Perga
Perga ( Perge, ) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia and the capital of Pamphylia, now in Antalya province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Today it is a large site of ancient ruins east of Antalya on the coastal plain. Located there is an acropolis dating back to the Bronze Age. During the Hellenistic period, Perga was one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the ancient world, famous for its temple of Artemis. It also is notable for being the home of the renowned ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga.
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Pergamon
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Phocaea
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Pinara
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Pitane (Aeolis)
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Priene
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Sagalassos
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Sakçagözü
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Sam'al
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Sapinuwa
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Sardis
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Seleucia (Pamphylia)
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Selge, Pisidia
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Sestos
Sestos () was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. Situated on the Hellespont opposite Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of Hero and Leander. Sestos was an Aeolian colony, as it was founded by settlers from Lesbos. The ruins of the town are near to Eceabat.
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Side
Side ( Side, ) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is now a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, near the villages of Manavgat and Selimiye, 75 km from Antalya) in the province of Antalya.
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Sigeion
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Smyrna
Smyrna () was an ancient city located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Thanks to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence. The ancient city is located at two sites within modern Izmir, Turkey. While the first site, likely to have started as a native foundation, rose to prominence during the Archaic Period as one of the principal ancient Greek settlements in western Anatolia, the second, whose foundation is associated with Alexander the Great, reached metropolitan proportions especially during the period of the Roman Empire, from which time and particularly from after a 2nd century AD earthquake, most of the present-day remains date.
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Soli, Cilicia
Soli (, Soloi) was an ancient city and port in Cilicia, in present day Turkey, a part of Mezitli municipality which in turn is a part of Greater Mersin. It was a colony of Rhodes, founded c. 700 BC. Soli was destroyed in the 1st century BC, and rebuilt by Pompey the Great. Thereafter, it was called Pompeiopolis (not to be confused with the Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia). The word solecism is derived from Soli, since the dialect of Greek spoken there was considered by Athenians to be a corrupted form of Attic Greek.
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Sparta
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Sultantepe
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Söke
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Tell Tayinat
'''Tell Ta'yinat''' is a low-lying ancient occupation mound on the east bank at the bend of the ancient Orontes river, in the Hatay province of present southeastern Turkey about 45 kilometers west of Antakya (ancient Antioch). The site lies some 800 meters from Tell Atchana, the site of the ancient city of Alalakh. It is a possible site of the city of Calneh mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures.
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Temnos
Temnos (also Temnus) was a small Greek city-state, on the western coast of Anatolia. The name survives as a Catholic titular see. When Temnos was a functioning diocese, its bishop was a suffragan of Ephesus.
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Temple of Hephaestus
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Temple of Zeus
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the chief of the gods, Zeus. It was the very model of the fully-developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order. The temple, built between 472 and 456 BC, stood in the most famous sanctuary of Greece, which had been dedicated to local and Pan-Hellenic deities and had probably been established towards the end of the Mycenaean period. The Altis, the enclosure with its sacred grove, open-air altars and the tumulus of Pelops, was first formed during the tenth and ninth centuries BCE, when the cult of Zeus was joined the already establish cult here of Hera.
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Teos
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Termessos
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Thermopylae
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Tlos
Tlos is known to have been one of the most important religious centers of the Lycian region in Antalya province of Turkey.
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Troy
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Tushhan
Tushhan was a northern Assyrian provincial capital in the upper Tigris river valley, on the south bank. It was inhabited since Mittani period, and mainly during the Neo-Assyrian period during the Iron Age.
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Tyana
:For the genus of nolid moths, see Tyana (moth).
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Xanthos
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Aeschylus
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Aesop
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Alcaeus of Mytilene
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Alcibiades
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Alexander the Great
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. He was accused of contravening the established religion and was forced to flee to Lampsacus.
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Anaximander
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes (; c. 445-c. 365 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates. He adopted and developed the ethical side of Socrates' teachings, advocating an ascetic life lived in accordance with virtue. Later writers regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy.
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Archilochus
:For the hummingbird genus, see ''Archilochus.
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Archimedes
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Aristophanes
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Aristotle
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Aspasia
Aspasia (ca. 470 BC–ca. 400 BC, Greek: ) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day.
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Bacchylides
Bacchylides () (5th century BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides. The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been a commonplace of Bacchylidean scholarship since at least Longinus (De Sublimitate 33,5). Some scholars however have associated these qualities with superficial charm. He has often been compared unfavourably with his contemporary, Pindar, as "a kind of Boccherini to Pindar's Haydn", yet the differences in their styles doesn't allow for easy comparison and "to blame Bacchylides for not being Pindar is as childish a judgement as to condemn...Marvel for missing the grandeur of Milton." His career coincided with the ascendency of dramatic styles of poetry, as embodied in the works of Aeschylus or Sophocles, and he is in fact one of the last poets of major significance within the more ancient tradition of purely lyric poetry. The most notable features of his lyrics are their clarity in expression and simplicity of thought, making them an ideal introduction to the study of Greek lyric poetry in general and to Pindar's verse in particular.
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope ( Diogenes ho Sinopeus), was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey) in 412 or 404 BCE
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Epaminondas
Epaminondas (Greek: ) (ca. 410 BC – 362 BC) or Epameinondas was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics. In the process he broke Spartan military power with his victory at Leuctra and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who had been enslaved under Spartan rule for some 230 years, having been defeated in the Messenian War ending in 600 BC. Epaminondas reshaped the political map of Greece, fragmented old alliances, created new ones, and supervised the construction of entire cities. He was militarily influential as well, inventing and implementing several major battlefield tactics.
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Gorgias
Gorgias (, ca. 485-c.380 BCE) "the Nihilist", Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists he was an itinerant, practicing in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. A special feature of his displays was to invite miscellaneous questions from the audience and give impromptu replies."
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: — ; c. 535–c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure," and the "Weeping Philosopher."
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Hipparchus
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Hippocrates
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Hipponax
Hipponax of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet.
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Homer
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Hypatia
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Ibycus
Ibycus (Ancient Greek: ) (6th century BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. The extant fragments of his work contain the earliest-known example of the triadic choral lyric and epinician poetry.
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Joseph Fontenrose
Joseph Eddy Fontenrose (17 June 1903, Sutter Creek - 7 July 1986, Ashland, Oregon) was an American classical scholar. He was centrally interested in Greek religion and Greek mythology; he was also an expert on John Steinbeck, commenting on the mythology in Steinbeck's work.
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Leonidas I
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Lycurgus of Sparta
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Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (Greek: ; fl. early 5th century BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In The Way of Truth (a part of the poem), he explains how reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In The Way of Opinion, he explains the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of Western philosophy.
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Plato
:For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation) and Platon (disambiguation).
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Protagoras
Protagoras (Greek: ) (ca. 490– 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue. He is also believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that man is the measure of all things. This idea was very revolutionary for the time and contrasting to other philosophical doctrines that claimed the universe was based on something objective, outside the human influence.
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Ptolemy
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Pyrrhus of Epirus
Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (, Pyrros; 319-272 BC) was a Greek general of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, cost him heavy losses, from which the term "Pyrrhic victory" was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (, O Pythagoras o Samios, "Pythagoras the Samian", or simply ; c. 570-c. 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of our information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, thus very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and may have travelled widely in his youth, visiting Egypt and other places seeking knowledge. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, a Greek colony in southern Italy, and there set up a religious sect. His followers pursued the religious rites and practices developed by Pythagoras, and studied his philosophical theories. The society took an active role in the politics of Croton, but this eventually led to their downfall. The Pythagorean meeting-places were burned, and Pythagoras was forced to flee the city. He is said to have ended his days in Metapontum.
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Robin Lane Fox
Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.
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Sappho
Sappho ( in English; Attic Greek ' , Aeolic Greek ' ) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
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Seleucus I Nicator
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Solon
Solon (ancient Greek: , c. 638 BC–558 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
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Sophocles
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Stesichorus
Stesichorus (Ancient Greek: , circa 640 - 555 BC) was the first great poet of the Greek West. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy. He was ranked among the nine lyric poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria and yet his work attracted relatively little interest among ancient commentators, which in turn left a disproportionate number of gaps in the modern record as one scholar observed in 1967: "Time has dealt more harshly with Stesichorus than with any other major lyric poet." Recent discoveries, recorded on Egyptian papyrus (notably and controversially, the Lille papyrus, in 1974), have enhanced modern understanding of his work, confirming his role as a link between Homer's epic narrative and the lyric narrative of poets like Pindar.
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Strabo
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Thales of Miletus
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Themistocles
Themistocles (Greek: ; "Glory of the Law"); c. 524–459 BC, was an Athenian politician and general. He was one of a new breed of politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy, along with his great rival Aristides. As a politician, Themistocles was a populist, having the support of lower class Athenians, and generally being at odds with the Athenian nobility. Elected archon in 493 BC, he took steps to increase the naval power of Athens, which would be a recurring theme in his political career. During the first Persian invasion of Greece, he fought at the Battle of Marathon, and was possibly one of the 10 Athenian strategoi (generals) in that battle.
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Theodosius I
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Timocreon
Timocreon, of Ialysus in Rhodes, was a Greek lyric poet who flourished about 480 BC.
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Vitruvius
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Xenophon
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Zeno of Citium
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Medusa @ The Oracle Temple of Apollo in Didyma, Turkey
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- Published: 05 Jul 2010
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
This temple was almost one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It has one of the largest carved images of Medusa. Filmed by Algis Kemezys produced by Byron Ayanoglu Music by Guthrie Lowe
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Ephesus Miletus Priene Halicarnassus Didyma
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- Duration: 5:59
- Published: 23 Nov 2006
- Updated: 10 Mar 2012
www.aboutturkey.com Ephesus Turkey
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Didyma feggaria - Zoe Papadopoulou & Dimitris Mpasis
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- Duration: 3:47
- Published: 20 Aug 2010
- Updated: 14 Dec 2010
Afieroma sto Mario Toka-Live @Areopoli Lakonias, Mousiki: Marios Tokas, Stixoi: Kostas Fasoulas
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Didyma - Turkey
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- Published: 02 Feb 2011
- Updated: 12 Feb 2012
Didyma is famous for his tremendous Temple of Apollo and the Medusa with snake-curls. Director Eric Ross draw up this report.
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Turkey - Aphrodisias - Didyma - Prienne
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- Published: 20 Nov 2010
- Updated: 28 Mar 2012
Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Didyma is related to the term "twins" associated to Apollo and twin sister Artemis. Prienne was a wealthy city in ancient times, and home to the temple of Athena.
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Miletus, Didyma, Aphrodisias
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- Published: 21 Jan 2010
- Updated: 12 Apr 2012
Tuesday, January 5: Today we visit Miletus, Didyma (Temple of Apollo), and Aphrodisias.
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Monarda didyma.mp4
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- Published: 07 Jul 2011
- Updated: 29 May 2012
New England Wild Flower Society's Dan Jaffe describes Monarda didyma (bee balm), a popular native wildflower
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Didyma Temple of Apollon
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- Published: 12 Sep 2009
- Updated: 14 Apr 2012
Didyma, Apollontempel / Temple of Apollon
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- Published: 07 Sep 2009
- Updated: 21 Jul 2011
Hellenistischer Tempel im ehemals griechischen Dorf Didim in der Türkei. Drittgrößter antiker Tempelbau aber trotz 600 Jahre Bauzeit niemals vollendet / Hellenistic Tempel in the former greek village Didim in Turkey. Third-largest ancient temple but never completed in 600 years construction time
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Aleka Kanellidou, Dimitris Mitropanos - Didyma Feggaria
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 26 Aug 2010
- Updated: 20 Apr 2012
Archaeological Sites in Turkey - Didyma
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- Published: 29 Jul 2007
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
HD video tour of the Didymaion, the gigantic Ionic temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey. Watch the high podium, enormous columns and elaborate reliefs. This was the fourth largest temple in the Greek world. It served as the cult center for the city of Miletos and was famous as a place of oracles and fortune telling. Additional clips and photos of Didyma and other archaeological sites in Turkey and the Mediterranean basin are available at www.sitesandphotos.com.
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Reggina-Stratos k. Didyma Feggaria
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- Duration: 1:34
- Published: 25 Oct 2006
- Updated: 18 May 2012
Ep.24-10-06 "Pws na zhsw xwris esena?"
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"Didyma: Very Impressive" Oldrover's photos around Didim, Turkey (turkish aegean coast)
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- Published: 03 Mar 2011
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
Preview of Oldrover's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Learn more about these videos: www.travelpod.com
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Turkey - Didyma - Travel Video
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 11 Nov 2011
- Updated: 02 Feb 2012
Didyma means 'Twins' and refers to the twins Apollo and Artemis. The city dates back to the 10th Century BC. Book a day tour to Didyma, Pirene and Miletus from Selcuk. Music by Kevin Macleod. To view other images of Turkey go to WilsonStockPhotos.com.
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Didyma Feggaria - Dimitris Mitropanos and Aleka Kanellidou
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- Published: 03 Feb 2009
- Updated: 25 Jul 2012
Dimitris Mitropanos may be dead since 17/04/2012 but he will always exist in our hearts! This is a song I like a lot in which Dimitris Mitropanos sings along Aleka Kanellidou! Like and comment! :) Ο Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος μπορεί να απεβίωσε στις 17/04/2012, μα θα ζει πάντα στις καρδιές μας! Αυτό το τραγούδι είναι ένα από τα αγαπημένα μου, στο οποίο τραγουδά μαζί με την Αλέκα Κανελλίδου! Πατήστε "Like" και αφήστε τα σχόλια σας! :)
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Apollo temple Didyma, Turkey
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 24 Dec 2008
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
This historic site at Didyma in the Aydin region of Turkey was originally built between the 7th and 8th centuries BC and although it was destroyed by an earthquake in 1493 the remains still stand almost 3000 years later. The area covered is 106 metres by 51 metres and was surrounded by 124 stone columns each standing 20 metre high. This video was shot whilst on holiday in Altinkum on the Aegean Coast.
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Didyma erleben mit RSD - Reise Service Deutschland
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- Published: 13 May 2011
- Updated: 12 Nov 2011
Der Orakeltempel von Didyma - einer vonvielen Höhepunkten in unserem RSD Türkei - Reiseprogramm. Hos Geldiniz ! RSD heißt Sie herzlich Willkommen in der Türkei ! Als Türkei-Reisespezialist freuen wir uns, Ihnen dieses wundervolle Land und seine Jahrhunderte alte Geschichte näher bringen zu dürfen. Auf unseren Bildungsreisen treffen wir nicht nur auf Bauwerke und Sehenswürdigkeiten aus vergangener Zeit. Sie lernen ebenfalls Land und Leute und die herzliche Gastfreundschaft der Türken besser kennen. Begleiten Sie uns auf eine Entdeckungsreise nach Didyma --eines unserer Reise-Highlights in unserem Türkeiprogramm. www.rsd-reisen.de
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Zeus' Turtle in Didyma Amphitheatre
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- Published: 21 Jul 2010
- Updated: 04 Jun 2012
A turtle at the Diyma Amphitheatre Turkey. I was amazed to find this turtle high up in the building. With the only way up there being a vast amount of steps.
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venosa beach resort-spa(TURKEY aydın didim)DIDYMA
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"Didyma and Eurosos" Mawakefi's photos around Didyma, Turkey (temple of apollo at didyma)
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- Published: 18 Feb 2011
- Updated: 08 Mar 2012
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Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey, with muezzin
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- Published: 06 Oct 2011
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Didyma
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- Published: 08 Jan 2010
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The Gods, The Temple of Apollon, Medusa, Life in the City, Heraklia, The Dream and The Real
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Turkey West Coast: Ephesus Miletus Didyma Halicarnassus
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- Published: 29 Oct 2011
- Updated: 20 Nov 2011
Zachodnie wybrzeze Turcji: wrzesien 2011. Celebrity Constellation September 2011.
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Didyma (Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey,[1] containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name.[2] Next to Delphi, Didyma was the most renowned oracle of the Hellenic world, first mentioned among the Greeks in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,[3] but an establishment preceding literacy and even the Hellenic colonization of Ionia. Mythic genealogies of the origins of the Branchidae line of priests, designed to capture the origins of Didyma as a Hellenic tradition, date to the Hellenistic period.[4]
Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. To approach it, visitors would follow the Sacred Way to Didyma, about 17 km long. Along the way, were ritual waystations, and statues of members of the Branchidae family, male and female, as well as animal figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC are now in the British Museum, taken by Charles Newton in the 19th century.
Greek and Roman authors laboured to refer the name Didyma to "twin" temples — not a feature of the site — or to temples of the twins, Apollo and Artemis, whose own cult center at Didyma was only recently established, or whether, as Wilamowitz suggested[5] there is a connection to Cybele Dindymene, "Cybele of Mount Dindymon", is mooted. Recent excavations by the German team of archaeologists have uncovered a major sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, with the key ritual focus being water.
The 6th-century Didymaion, dedicated to Apollo, enclosed its smaller predecessor, which archaeologists have identified. Its treasury was enriched by gifts from Croesus.
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Until its destruction by the Persians in 494 BC, Didyma's sanctuary was administered by the family of the Branchidae, who claimed descent from a purely eponymous Branchos,[6] a youth beloved of Apollo.[7] The priestess, seated above the sacred spring, gave utterances that were interpreted by the Branchidae. Both Herodotus[8] and Pausanias[9] dated the origins of the oracle at Didyma before the Ionian colonization of this coast. The Branchidae were expelled by Darius' Persians, who burned the temple in 493 BC and carried away to Ecbatana the archaic bronze statue of Apollo, traditionally made by Canachus of Sicyon[10] in the 6th century; the spring dried up, it was reported, and the archaic oracle was silenced.[11] Though the sanctuaries of Delphi and Ephesus were swiftly rebuilt, Didyma remained a ruin until the first steps of restoration were undertaken, in 334 BC. Callisthenes, a court historian of Alexander, reported that the spring began once more to flow after Alexander passed through, but there had been a complete break in the oracles' personnel and tradition.[12] Inscriptions, including inquiries and responses, and literary testimony record Didyma's role as an oracle, with the "grim epilogue"[13] of Apollo's supposed sanction of Diocletian's persecution of Christians, until the closing of the temples under Theodosius I.
After his capture of Miletus in 334 BC, Alexander the Great reconsecrated the oracle but placed its administration of the oracle in the hands of the city, where the priest in charge was annually elected. About 300 BC,[14] Seleucus I Nicator brought the bronze cult image back, and the Milesians began to build a new temple, which, if it had ever been completed, would have been the largest in the Hellenic world. Vitruvius recorded a tradition that the architects were Paeonius of Ephesus, whom Vitruvius credited with the rebuilding of the Temple of Artemis there, and Daphnis of Miletus. The peripteral temple[15] was surrounded by a double file of Ionic columns. With a pronaos of three rows of four columns, the approaching visitor passed through a regularized grove formed of columns. The usual door leading to a cella was replaced by a blank wall with a large upper opening through which one could glimpse the upper part of the naiskos in the inner court (adyton). The entry route lay down either of two long constricted sloping passageways built within the thickness of the walls which gave access to the inner court, still open to the sky but isolated from the world by the high walls of the cella: there was the ancient spring, the naiskos— which was a small temple itself, containing in its own small cella the bronze cult image of the god—and a grove of laurels, sacred to Apollo. The inner walls of the cella were articulated by pilasters standing on a base the height of a man (1.94 m). Turning back again, the visitor saw a monumental staircase that led up to three openings to a room[16] whose roof was supported by two columns on the central cross-axis. The oracular procedure, so well documented at Delphi, is unknown at Didyma and must be reconstructed on the basis of the temple's construction, but it appears that several features of Delphi were now adopted: a priestess[17] and answers delivered in classical hexameters. At Delphi, nothing was written; at Didyma, inquiries and answers were written; a small structure, the Chresmographion featured in this process: it was meticulously disassembled in the Christian period.
The annual festival held there under the auspices of Miletus was the Didymeia; it was made a Panhellenic festival in the beginning of the 2nd century BC. German excavations made between 1905 and 1930 revealed all of the incomplete new temple and some carved fragments that belonged to the earlier temple and to associated statues.
In 1979 came the biggest discovery by the German archaeological institute. On the left wall of the adyton, small very thin scratched lines were discovered. A closer examination brought the first ancient blueprint of a temple back to life. Starting just after the entrance on an area of 200 square metres (2,200 sq ft) were the blueprints and a roughly calculated estimate. The discovery and translations made by Lothar Haselberger led to some important information about the planning and the building phase of the Apollo Temple. Today it is known that three different contractors worked until the end. All three had the responsibility to get the material on site, place the stones and do the first refinement. After that, a small part was left on every placed block, a small cachet with a special sign of the contractor which indicated that this particular block was not paid yet. Further on, the inscriptions led to the information that one column would have taken 20,000 workdays to complete by one mason. (There where more masons per column, but just for the calculation.) The daily income of a stonemason was 2 drachmas, which is approx. 8.6 grams of silver. So with that information one can calculate the bare craftsmanship cost of one column, which was 20,000 (workdays) × 8.6 (grams of silver) equals 172 kilograms (380 lb) of silver.
Pausanias visited Didyma in the later 2nd century AD.[18] Pliny reported[19] the worship of Apollo Didymiae, Apollo of Didymus, in Central Asia, transported to Sogdiana by a general of Seleucus and Antiochus whose inscribed altars there were still to be seen by Pliny's correspondents. Corroborating inscriptions on amphoras were found by I.R. Pichikyan at Dilbergin.[20]
Clement of Alexandria quotes Leandrios saying that Cleochus, grandfather of the eponymous founder Miletus, was buried within the temple enclosure of Didyma.[21]
Notes[link]
- ^ Didim is located near the modern village of Yeni Hisar (Yoran), close to the Turkish resort of Altinkum, near the town of Söke in the province of Aydın.
- ^ Didyma is akin to Idyma in Caria, and Sidyma in Lycia, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose noted (Fontenrose, "Zeus Didymaeus", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 63 (1932, pp. 245-255) p 251).
- ^ Fontenrose 1932:245 demonstrates that a "Zeus Didymeus" that was mentioned once, by Nicander, is a phantom based on a merely geographical epithet: the Zeus who shared honors of patronage at Didyma, though not in the Didymaion itself, was actually Zeus Soter, "Zeus the Saviour".
- ^ H. W. Parke, "The Temple of Apollo at Didyma: The Building and Its Function" The Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986, pp. 121-131) p 123.
- ^ Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, "Die Herkunft am Magneten-um-Maeander" Hermes 30 (1895), p 181, taking a cue from the suggestion in Strabo that the Magnesians came from the region round Mount Didyma in Thessaly and erected in their new home a temple to Dindymene, "Mother of the Gods", i.e. Cybele.
- ^ Bragxos, βράγχος, "hoarse" (Hammond 1998:339 note 1.
- ^ Strabo, 634.
- ^ Herodotus, Histories 1.157.3.
- ^ Pausanias, 7.2.6.
- ^ Pausanias, 2.10.5.
- ^ Parke reports that the adyton is normally dry today.
- ^ Parke 1986.
- ^ Robert Parker, reviewing Fontenrose 1988 in The Classical Review New Series 39.2 (1989), p 270.
- ^ Pausanias (i.16.3, viii.46.3) offers no date, but Seleucus gained control of Media in the years immediately after 312.
- ^ This description follows that of Parke 1986:21-131.
- ^ Its rear wall divided it from the pronaos outside.
- ^ Iamblychus' profetis (in De mysteriis)
- ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.2.6.
- ^ Pliny's Natural History, 6.18.
- ^ Pichikyan publication (1991) noted in Hammond 1998:339 note 2.
- ^ Clement Alexandrinus. Protrepticus, 3.45.2-3.
See also[link]
References[link]
- Hammond, N. G. L. 1998. "The Branchidae at Didyma and in Sogdiana" The Classical Quarterly, New Series, 48.2 pp. 339–344.
External links[link]
- Encyclopedia Iranica, "Didyma"
- Didyma Apollon Temple Turkey
- Livius Picture Archive: Didyma (Yenihisar)
- Site of Didyma
- Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Didyma,or Branchidai (Didim, previously Yoran) Turkey"
- Rather exhaustive picture series of Didyma
- Project Perseus - The major Anatolian sanctuary dedicated to Apollo
Further reading[link]
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- Joseph Fontenrose, 1988. Didyma. Apollo's Oracle, Cult and Companions, (Berkeley). Catalogue of Didyman inquiries and responses, translated.
- Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians 1986: Chapter 5.
- H. W. Parke, 1985. The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor
- T. Wiegand, 1941-58. Didyma, 2 vols. in 4, (Berlin) The prime archaeological report.
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