Korydalla

Korydalla ( ancient Greek Κορύδαλλα Korýdalla , Latin Corydalla ) was an ancient city in the southeast of the Lycian peninsula in the province of Antalya in Turkey . It is best known as the hometown of Aglais alias Aristokila, daughter of Hermaios and mother of the famous Euergeten Opramoas from Rhodiapolis , who was a benefactor in his mother's homeland and dedicated an honorary monument to her on the lower stoa of Rhodiapolis.

Korydalla is mentioned for the first time in Hekataios of Miletus in his description of Asia and is named by Stephanos of Byzantium as the city of the Rhodians . Korydalla appears as a station in the Stadiasmus Patarensis from the time of Emperor Claudius . The older Pliny lists Korydalla among the mountain resorts of Lycia, which were located in the area of the city of Olympos , which was destroyed by the Romans as a pirate center .

The main deity of Korydalla was probably Leto , possibly as an equation with the Lycian " mother ". City coins from the time of Gordian III. also depict Athena , Heracles and Tyche . Further consecrations are known for Artemis , the Dioscuri and Sarapis .

literature

Peter Frei: The gods cults of Lycia in the imperial era. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World (ANRW). II.18.3, 1990, pp. 1729-1864, here: pp. 1813, 1858.
Martin Zimmermann : Investigations into the historical geography of Central Lycia (= Antiquitas . Series 1: Treatises on ancient history. Volume 42). Volume Habelt, Bonn 1992, ISBN 978-3-7749-2553-3 , pp. 61-67.

Individual evidence

^ TAM II 916. In: Searchable Greek Inscriptions. A Scholarly Tool in Progress. The Packard Humanities Institute . Retrieved March 9, 2018 (ancient Greek).
↑ Hekataios (= FGrHist 1 F 246) in Stephanos of Byzantium sv Κορύδαλλα ; see Margarethe Billerbeck (ed.): Stephani Byzantii Ethnica. Volume 3: Kappa - Omikron (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae - Series Berolinensis. Volume 43/3). De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, p. 100 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 5,100 f .: oppidum Olympus ibi fuit, nunc sunt montana Gagae, Corydalla, Rhodiopolis.
↑ Peter Frei: The gods cults Lycia in the imperial era. In: ANRW. II.18.3, 1990, p. 1813.
↑ Peter Frei: The gods cults Lycia in the imperial era. In: ANRW. II.18.3, 1990, p. 1858.

[1] TAM II 916. In: Searchable Greek Inscriptions. A Scholarly Tool in Progress. The Packard Humanities Institute . Retrieved March 9, 2018 (ancient Greek).

[2] Hekataios (= FGrHist 1 F 246) in Stephanos of Byzantium sv Κορύδαλλα ; see Margarethe Billerbeck (ed.): Stephani Byzantii Ethnica. Volume 3: Kappa - Omikron (= Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae - Series Berolinensis. Volume 43/3). De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, p. 100 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).

[3] Pliny, Naturalis historia 5,100 f .: oppidum Olympus ibi fuit, nunc sunt montana Gagae, Corydalla, Rhodiopolis.

[4] Peter Frei: The gods cults Lycia in the imperial era. In: ANRW. II.18.3, 1990, p. 1813.

[5] Peter Frei: The gods cults Lycia in the imperial era. In: ANRW. II.18.3, 1990, p. 1858.