Lampsacus
Λάμψακος | |
Alternative name | Pityusa, Pityussa, Lampsakos |
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Location | Lapseki, Çanakkale Province, Turkey |
Region | Troad |
Coordinates | 40°20′48″N 26°41′57″E / 40.34667°N 26.69917°E |
Type | Settlement |
History | |
Builder | Colonists from Phocaea and Miletus |
Lampsacus (.
Ancient history
Originally known as Pityusa or Pityussa
A revolt against the Athenians in 411 BC was put down by force. In 196 BC, the
The philosopher Anaxagoras was forced to retire to Lampsacus after a trial in Athens around 434-433 BC. The citizens of Lampsacus erected an altar to Mind and Truth in his honor, and observed the anniversary of his death for many years.
The people of Lampsacus were pro-Persian, or were suspected of doing so and Alexander the Great was furiously angry, and threatened to do them massive harm. They sent Anaximenes of Lampsacus to intercede for them. Alexander knew why he had come, and swore by the gods that he would do the opposite of what he would ask, so Anaximenes said, 'Please do this for me, your majesty: enslave the women and children of Lampsacus, burn their temples, and raze the city to the ground.' Alexander had no way round this clever trick, and since he was bound by his oath he reluctantly pardoned the people of Lampsacus.[6][7]
Lampsacus produced a series of notable historians and philosophers. Charon of Lampsacus (c. 500 BC) composed histories of Persia, Libya, and Ethiopia, and annals of his native town.[8] Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) (5th century BC) was a philosopher from the school of Anaxagoras. Strato of Lampsacus (c. 335-c. 269 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the third director of Aristotle's Lyceum at Athens. Euaeon of Lampsacus was one of Plato's students. A group of Lampsacenes were in the circle of Epicurus; they included Polyaenus of Lampsacus (c. 340 – 278 BC) a mathematician, the philosophers Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Colotes the satirist and Leonteus of Lampsacus; Batis of Lampsacus the wife of Idomeneus, was the sister of Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger), whose elder brother, also a friend of Epicurus, was Timocrates of Lampsacus. Anaximenes of Lampsacus, a rhetorician and historian. His nephew (son of his sister), was also named Anaximenes and was a historian.[9] Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς) of Lampsacus was a stoic philosopher.[10] Xenophon of Lampsacus was a geographer.
The people of Lampsacus dedicated a statue of Anaximenes of Lampsacus at Olympia, Greece.[11]
Christian history
According to legend, St Tryphon was buried at Lampsacus after his martyrdom at Nicaea in 250.[12]
The first known
See also
- List of ancient Greek cities
- List of traditional Greek place names
- Lampsace
- Anaximenes of Lampsacus
- Polyaenus of Lampsacus
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger)
- Abramios the Recluse
Notes
- ^ Borza, E., DARMC, R. Talbert, J. Becker, S. Gillies, G. Reger, T. Elliott. "Places: 501570 (Pityoussa/Lampsacus)". Pleiades. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Sertorius with some Cilician pirates effected a landing at an island of Pityussa on the North African coast of Mauretania, and was driven off (Plutarch, Life of Sertorius 7).
- ^ Herodotus 6.37-38
- ISBN 9781910589465.
- ^ Asia Minor Coins – ancient coins of Lampsacus
- ^ Suda, al.1989
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.18.3
- ^ J. B. Bury, The Ancient Greek Historians, Lecture 1, §4.
- ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, § 2.3
- ^ Suda, al.3917
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.18.2
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ Lampsacus at catholic-hierarchy.org.
External links
Media related to Lampsacus at Wikimedia Commons