Themiskyra

Themiskyra ( Greek Θεμίσκυρα ) was an ancient city in northern Asia Minor , founded by the Amazons according to Greek myth . However, only one Greek city with this name is credibly documented by ancient sources. The surrounding landscape was of the same name, which, according to Strabo, began 60 stages (about 11 km) away from Amisos and reached from Chadisia and Lykastos in the west to the Thermodon , traversed by the lower Iris and bordered in the south by part of the Taurus Mountains . The city was on the lower Thermodon ( Terme Çayı ) near the present day Terme in the province of Samsun in Turkey.

Strabo describes the Themiskyra landscape as extremely fertile and rich in animals. The promontory at the outflow of the Thermodon was named after the city of Themiskyra. The city was traversed by the Thermodon River and was located at its mouth in the Iris. No remains of the city have yet been discovered.

In the third Mithridatic War (74-64 BC) the city was besieged by Lucullus and after a long resistance, in which the inhabitants finally used bears and wild animals, captured, looted and apparently destroyed. Because for Pomponius Mela around the middle of the 1st century AD it no longer existed.

Although Themiskyra no longer existed in late antiquity and was therefore not a bishopric, the titular diocese of Themiscyra is named after Themiskyra .

literature

Christo M. Danoff : Themiskyra. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Sp. 676.
Eckart Olshausen : Themiskyra. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , Col. 302.

Web links

Braund, D., T. Sinclair, D. Braund, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies: Places: 857350 (Themiskyra) . Pleiades. Retrieved October 21, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ U. a. Strabon 11, 5, 4. Early mention of Themiskyra as an Amazon city as early as the 5th century BC. In Aeschylus , The bound Prometheus 723-735. Walther Ruge offers an overview of the ancient sources on Themiskyra : Themiskyra. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 2, Stuttgart 1934, column 1630 f.
↑ As early as the 5th century BC In Herodotus , Historien 4, 86, 3.
^ Strabo 12, 3, 15.
^ Appian , Mithridates 78.
↑ Pomponius Mela 1, 19.

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[1] U. a. Strabon 11, 5, 4. Early mention of Themiskyra as an Amazon city as early as the 5th century BC. In Aeschylus , The bound Prometheus 723-735. Walther Ruge offers an overview of the ancient sources on Themiskyra : Themiskyra. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VA, 2, Stuttgart 1934, column 1630 f.

[2] As early as the 5th century BC In Herodotus , Historien 4, 86, 3.

[3] Strabo 12, 3, 15.

[4] Appian , Mithridates 78.

[5] Pomponius Mela 1, 19.