Myus
Myus ( Greek Μυοῦς ; also transcribed Myous ) was an ancient city in what is now western Turkey . It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League and was 15 km east-northeast of Miletus , at the mouth of the meander in the Latin Gulf (now Lake Bafa ), near the present-day village of Avşar.
According to ancient tradition, Myus was founded by the Athenians on the site of an earlier Carian settlement. According to Strabo , the city's founder was Kydrelos ( Pausanias : Kyaretos), a son of the Athenian king Kodros . During the Ionian Uprising, the Persian fleet anchored in 499 BC. BC before Myus ( Herodotus 5, 36). Myus took part in the sea battle at Lade in 494 BC. Only part with three ships (Herodotus 6, 8). The Persian king Xerxes is said to have handed Myus over to the Attic general Themistocles , who fled to the Persians .
Myus belonged to the Attic League , but paid only small contributions (a talent), since the port of the city suffered from the increasing siltation caused by the shifting of the meander mouth. 201 BC Chr. Philip V handed over the conquered Myus to the Magnesians . During the late Hellenism the city was finally united with Miletus and completely abandoned; at the time of Pausanias in the 2nd century AD it was already a ruin site.
During excavations the temple of Dionysus, also mentioned in ancient sources, was found on a terrace . It was built in the Ionic style from white marble and measures 30 × 17 m. On another terrace there was a Doric temple, which was probably dedicated to Apollon Terbintheos and of which the foundations can still be seen. In addition, wall remains from archaic times and the ruins of a Byzantine castle can be visited.
literature
- George Ewart Bean : Myous, 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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Weber : Myus. Excavation 1966. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen. 17/1967, 1967, pp. 128-143
- ↑ Hans Weber: Myus. Excavation 1964. In: Istanbuler Mitteilungen. 15/1964, 1964, pp. 43-64
Coordinates: 37 ° 35 ′ 40 ″ N , 27 ° 25 ′ 40 ″ E