Euromos

Temple of Zeus Lepsynos (2009)

Donor inscription on one of the pillars

Euromos ( ancient Greek Εὔρωμος ; Carian Kyromos, Hyromos ) was an ancient city in the interior of Asia Minor landscape Caria (today in the province of Muğla in Turkey) distant, main city of Caria after the neighboring, about ten kilometers Mylasa (today Milas ).

In the middle of the 5th century BC Euromos was a member of the Delisch-Attic League . The Hecatomnid king Maussolos wore in the 4th century BC BC with his policy of Hellenization probably helped to strengthen the place. Euromos seems to have retained its independence until the neighboring city of Mylasa in 167 BC. BC rebelled against the rule of the Greek Rhodes and then took control of the area of ​​Euromos. Euromos formed alliances with the Roman Empire , with Rhodes and with the Carian city of Iasos , as a result of which it grew and flourished in the Hellenistic and Roman times.

Excavation and restoration work began in the 1970s but has not been completed to this day. The Temple of Zeus Lepsynos, dating from the second century AD, is considered to be one of the six best-preserved temples in Asia, although its ornamentation does not seem to be quite finished. Half of the original 32  Corinthian columns are still upright and support parts of the entablature. Inscriptions remember the founders and the stonemasons from the former Zeus shrine Labraunda made their mark several times with the double ax ( Labrys ). Only a few remains of the rest of the city can be seen: a theater , an agora and tombs.

literature

• George Ewart Bean :  Euromos (Ayakli) Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
• Hans Kaletsch : Euromos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 .

Web links

Commons : Euromos  - collection of images

• Gregory R. Cane (Ed.): Euromos (Site). Perseus Digital Library, accessed on January 13, 2014 (English, with 22 images). 
• Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne: Temple of Zeus Lepsynos - Euromos. In: Arachne . Retrieved January 13, 2014 . 
• Martin Avenarius: Euromos. Institute for Roman Law at the University of Cologne, 2003, accessed on January 13, 2014 (two images of the Temple of Zeus). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gregory R. Cane (Ed.): Euromos (Site). Perseus Digital Library, accessed January 13, 2014 .  

Coordinates: 37 ° 22 '  N , 27 ° 41'  E