Tralleis
Coordinates: 37 ° 51 '36 " N , 27 ° 50' 7.7" E
Tralleis ( Greek Τράλλεις , also Τράλλις: Trallis or Tralles ) is an ancient city in Caria . It is located two kilometers north of the center of today's city of Aydın ( Turkey ).
history
Tralleis was founded by Argives and Thracians after Strabo . After the conquest by Antigonus in 313 BC. The city came under Seleucid rule and was named Seleukia. In the late third century BC She received various privileges of a polis from Antiochus III. In the Peace of Apamea (188 BC) Tralleis was assigned to the Attalids , the ruling family of Pergamon , and appears in inscriptions under this name. At that time it was the location of an important sanctuary of Zeus Larasios. After the end of this empire, the city was Roman as part of the province of Asia . 88 BC Numerous Italians were killed here during the Vespers of Ephesus . After an earthquake in 26 BC It was temporarily renamed Caesarea Tralleis as thanks for the reconstruction aid by Augustus .
Attractions
On the Topyatağı hill above the city of Aydın there are excavations of a Roman high school , an agora , a stadium, a theater, a row of columns and several temples.
Research history
After visits by several European travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries, Carl Humann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld carried out the first archaeological excavations in 1883-88. In the years 1902-04 investigations followed by Halil Ethem from Müze-i Humayun ("Museum of the Empire") in Constantinople and finally by the Adnan Menderes University in Aydın in cooperation with the Museum Aydın from 1996.
City personalities
- Apollonios von Tralleis , sculptor (2nd / 1st century BC)
- Thessalus of Tralleis , medic (1st century)
- Phlegon von Tralleis , writer ( 2nd century )
- Anthemios von Tralleis , mathematician and architect (2nd half of the 5th century – around 534)
- Alexandros of Aydin , medical ( 525 - 605 )
literature
- Fyodor B. Polyakov: The inscriptions from Tralleis and Nysa. Volume 1: The inscriptions from Tralleis. Habelt, Bonn 1989. ( Inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor 36.1) ISBN 3-7749-2221-7
- George Ewart Bean : Tralles (Aydin formerly Güzelhisar) 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabon 14.I.42 engl. translation
- ↑ Diodor 19.75.5 Engl. translation
- ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
- ↑ Getzel M. Cohen: The Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands, and Asia Minor . University of California Press, 1995 p. 266 ISBN 9780520083295 on GoogleBooks
- ↑ Sign on the excavation site