Lycia - Lycia A region near the southern coast of Turkey, the Teke Peninsula. People Geography Mountainous region in southern Turkey, along the coast. Neighbors: Caria to the west and north west, Pamphilia to the east, and Pisidia to the north east. Major cities: Xanthus, Patara, Myra, Phaselis History Resources: http://www.lycianturkey.com/ Lycia is also the name of a darkwave band that was formed in 1988. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet and Tara VanFlower. The band broke up in 2000. Their recordings include: Wake Ionia A Day in the Stark Corner The Burning Circle and then Dust Cold Estrella Tripping Back into the Broken Days.
Lycian - one of the Anatolian languages, that was spoken in the city-state of Lycia in Anatolia, present day Turkey. It became extinct around the first century BC and was replaced by Greek. The language is known from a few brief inscriptions. Lycian had its own alphabet that was closely related to the Greek alphabet. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Iobates - Antea and Philonoe. Bellerophon is sent into exile to the land of King Iobates of Lycia. Proteus wanted Iobates to kill Bellerophon, but Iobates feared the wrath of the gods if he murdered a guest. So he sent Bellerophon on a mission that Iobates deemed impossible: to kill the fire-breathing monster the Chimera. An alternate version of the beginning of the quest is that Bellerophon wandered into Proteus, who grew intensely jealous of him. Proteus was the son-in-law of Iobates, King of Lycia, and sent Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked to kill Bellerophon. Lycia at the time was in the middle of a horrific plague and Iobates didn't want to strain the population with a war, which would surely be the result if he murdered Bellerophon. Instead,.
History of Greek and Roman Egypt - Alexander. His first object is to hold his position in Egypt securely, and secondly to increase his domain. Within a few years he had gained control of Libya, Palestine and Cyprus. When Antigonus, ruler of Syria, tried to reunite Alexander's empire, Ptolemy joined the coalition against him. In 312 BC, allied with Seleucus, the ruler of Babylonia, he defeated Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, in the battle of Gaza. In 311 BC a peace was concluded between the combatants, but in 309 BC war broke out again, and Ptolemy occupied Corinth and other parts of Greece, although he lost Cyprus after a sea-battle in 306 BC. Antigonus then tried invade Egypt but Ptolemy held the frontier against him. When the coalition was renewed against Antigonus in 302 BC, Ptolemy joined it,.
Gordias - Knot. Legend said that he who could unravel it would be master of 'Asia' which was equated at the time with Anatolia. Instead, Alexander the Great sliced the knot in half with his sword, in 333 BCE. 'With' Cybele or under her patronage as Great Mother goddess of Phrygia, Gordias adopted Midas. A later Gordias was a Phrygian king, the father with Eurynome of Adrastus. Adrastus accidentally killed his own brother and had to flee to Lycia..
Edremit - on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called Æolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to Myra, in Lycia, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship to Italy. It was a rare thing for a ship to sail from any port of Palestine direct for Italy. In the 19th century, the name Adramyti was used. Parts of this text come from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897).
Diocletian - that the Tetrarchy did not immediately fall apart due to the greed of any one of the four emperors. The opportunistic nature of Roman imperial politics did eventually cause the disintegration of the Tetrarchy and the reinstitution of one-man rule, but this was not until the 320s. In 305, Diocletian retired to his palace at the administrative center of Salona on the Adriatic Sea, near the modern Split, Croatia. He was the only Roman emperor to remove himself from office; all of the others either died of natural causes or were removed by force. The last and greatest persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire was carried out during his reign, though Galerius carried it out more avidly than Diocletian himself. Dioceses of Diocletian Name Territories WEST Oriens Libya, Egypt, Plaestine,.
Delian League - state was assigned by Aristides the Just, leader of the Athenians; some members were assessed ships, others money. A council of all the cities met at Delos regularly, probably when bringing their assessment to the island. The first action of the Delian League, under the command of Cimon, was the capture of Eion, a Persian fortification that guarded a river crossing on the way to Asia; following this victory, the League acted against several pirate islands in the Aegean Sea, most notably against Scyrus where they turned the Dolopian inhabitants into slaves and set up a cleruchy. A few years later they sailed against Caria and Lycia, defeating both the Persian army and navy in the battle of the Eurymedon. These actions were most likely very popular with the League. However,.
178 BC - The Roman Senate threatens intervention if Rhodes does not stop harassing the people of Lycia. Birth Death.
Amazons - derivation of Amaxones from mafos, "without breast." But there is no indication of this practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the right is frequently covered. Other suggested derivations are: a (intensive) and mafos, breast, "full-breasted"; a (privative) and masso, touch, "not touching men"; maza, a Circassian word said to signify "moon," has suggested their connection with the worship of a moon-goddess, perhaps the Asiatic representative of Artemis. Though the bow-and-arrow was their primary weapon, the Amazons also fought with swords, double-sided axes and a distinctive crescent shaped shield. They usually fought on horseback. In the Iliad, the Amazons were referred to as Antianeira ("those who fight like men"). Herodotus called them Androktones ("killers of men"). The Amazons appear in connexion with.
Bari - begun in 1035 but not completed till 1171: the exterior preserves in the main the fine original architecture (notably the dome and campanile), but the interior has been modernized. Not far off is the church of San Nicola, founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt. The church is one of the four Palatine churches of Apulia (the others being the cathedrals of Acquaviva and Altamura, and the church of Monte Sant' Angelo sul Gargano). Adjacent is the small church of San Gregorio, belonging also to the 11th century. The castle, built in 1169, and strengthened in 1233, lies on the west side of the old town. Ancient Bari Barium -- the old.
Battle of the Eurymedon - on the same day, first on the river and then on land. The Persian navy, consisting of 200 Phoenician ships, was completely destroyed in the naval portion of the battle. After this victory, Cimon landed and attacked the Persian camp, destroying it as well. The cities of Caria and Lycia (such as Cnidus) became allies (or subjects) of the Delian League, and Persia was unable to invade Greece for a third time. The loot taken from both the Persians and from Athens’ new allies allowed them to expand the Acropolis..
Bellerophon - Tartarus for doing many evil things in life. He was the son of King Glaucus of Corinth. Bellerophon's journey begins when he is acused of trying to seduce the wife of King Proteus. He is sent into to exile to the land of King Iobates of Lycia. Proteus wanted Iobates to kill Bellerophon, but Iobates feared the wrath of the gods if he murdered a guest. So he sent Bellerophon on a mission that Iobates deemed impossible: to kill the fire-breathing monster the Chimera. An alternate version of the beginning of the quest is that Bellerophon wandered into Proteus, who grew intensely jealous of him. Proteus was the son-in-law of Iobates, King of Lycia, and sent Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked to kill Bellerophon. Lycia at the.
Caria - Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, west of Phrygia Major and Lycia. It was originally colonised by various peoples from Greece. It was originally called Phœnecia, because a Phœnecian colony first settled there. Afterwards it received the name of Caria from Car, one of their kings. The most important town was Halicarnassus, where its sovereigns reigned. Other major towns were Heraclea, Antioch, Myndus, Laodicea and Alabanda. Halicarnassus was the location of the famed Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and from which the current term for interment buildings comes . It was conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Lempriere notes that, "As Caria probably abounded in figs, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words In Care periculum facere, having been proverbially.
Chimera (creature) - both the goat and lion, with a snake for a tail. All descriptions, however, agree that it breathed fire from one or more of its heads. The Chimera was finally defeated by Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus, the winged horse, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. There are varying descriptions of its death–some say merely that Bellerophon ran it through on his spear, whereas others say that he fitted his spear point with lead that melted when exposed to the Chimera's fiery breath and consquently killed it. The term "chimera" or "chimeric" is often used metaphorically to describe things that have combined attributes from different sources. In genetics, for example, an organism or tissue created from two or more different genetic sources is called chimeric, as in transplant.
Sarpedon - was raised by King Asterion and then banished by Minos, his brother, and moved to Lycia, where he lived for three generations. Son of Zeus and Laodamia and a Lycian King. He fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War and was killed by Patroclus. Zeus ordered Apollo to move the body back to Lycia. Iliad V, 471; XVI, 419.
Sabazios - to 'wife,' but initially Gordias will have been ruling in the Goddess's name, as her visible representative. One of the Mother Goddess's creatures was the Lunar Bull. Sabazios' relations with the goddess may be surmised in the way that his horse places a hoof on the head of the bull, in a Roman marble relief at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Though Roman in date, the iconic image appears to be much earlier. The God on Horseback More "rider god" steles are at Burdur Museum, Turkey. Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins minted at Tlos, in neighboring Lycia, and at Istrus, in the province of Lower Moesia, between Thrace and the Danube. It is generally thought that the young emperor's grandfather came from.
Pamphylia - geography, was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. It was bounded on the north by Pisidia and was therefore a country of small extent, having a coast-line of only about 75 miles with a breadth of about 30 miles. There can be little doubt that the Pamphylians and Pisidians were the same people, though the former had received colonies from Greece and other lands, and from this cause, combined with the greater fertility of their territory, had become more civilized than their neighbours in the interior. But the distinction between the two seems to have been established at an early period. Herodotus, who does not mention the Pisidians, enumerates the Pamphylians among the nations of Asia Minor, while.
Perdiccas - under Craterus. He soon showed himself intolerant of any rivals, and acting in the name of the two kings (for Roxana gave birth to a son, Alexander IV) sought to hold the empire together under his own hand. His most loyal supporter was Eumenes, governor of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia. These provinces had not yet been conquered by the Macedonians, and Antigonus (governor of Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia) refused to undertake the task at the command of Perdiccas. Having been summoned to the royal presence to stand his trial for disobedience, Antigonus fled to Europe and entered into alliance with Antipater, Craterus and Ptolemy, the son of Lagus. Perdiccas, leaving the war in Asia Minor to Eumenes, marched to attack Ptolemy in Egypt. He reached Pelusium, but failed to cross the Nile..
Polyidus - In Greek mythology, Polyidus was the wisest man in Lycia. He told Bellerophon how to find and tame Pegasus in order to kill the Chimera. One day, Glaucus, son of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae of Crete, was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared. His parents went to the Oracle at Delphi who told them "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child." They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black. Polyidus observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the blackberry plant and Minos sent him to search for Glaucus. Searching for Glaucus, Polyidus.
