Anchiale (Cilicia)
Anchiale is an ancient city in Cilicia . It lies between Tarsos and Soloi .
According to ancient authors, the soldiers of Alexander the Great saw here in 333 BC. The tomb of the Assyrian king Sardanapal with a statue with an Assyrian inscription, which has only survived in Greek: “Sardanapallos, the son of Anakyndaraxes built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day. But you, stranger, eat, drink and live happily; everything else is not worth it ”.
Cicero described this as "more worthy of an ox than a king".
literature
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Anchiale 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2103 f.
- Friedrich Hild : Anchiale 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 677.
- Walter Burkert : Sardanapal between myth and reality. The grave in Kilikien, in: Ueli Dill , Christine Walde (Hrsg.): Ancient myths. Media, transformations and constructions. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020909-9 . Pp. 502-515 Google Books .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aristobulus , FGrH F 9.
- ↑ Tusculanae 5:35 .