Mallus (Cilicia)
Mallus (
History
Alexander the Great erected a bridge over the Pyramus and visited Mallus during his conquest of the region, and at Mallus he performed sacrifices to Amphilochus.[1][5] Alexander also exempted the town from paying taxes, because it was a colony of the Argives, and he himself claimed to have sprung from Argos, being one of the descendants of Heracles.[6][1][7]
It allied itself with
Its port-town was
Mallus figures in the various revisions of the Antiochene
Notable persons
- Ancient Greek: Διονυσιάδης) of Mallos was a Greek tragic poet.[14]
- Proclus Mallotes was a stoic philosopher.[15]
- Crates of Mallus was a stoic philosopher.
- Philistides (
- Lysanias (Ancient Greek: Λυσανίας) of Mallos, a historian.[18]
Bishopric
A bishopric is mentioned in the Antiochene "Notititae Episcopatuum" as suffragan of the patriarchate of Antioch and was suffragan of the archdiocese of Tarsus.[19][20] Six bishops are known:[21] [22][23]
- Bematius, present at the Council of Antioch (377);
- Valentine, at the Council of Ephesus (431) and Synod of Tarsus (434);[24]
- Chrysippus at the Council of Chalcedon (451).
- Attalo (fl 459)
- Cosma (fl 553)
Today it survives only as a
Location
The precise location of Mallus has been the subject of some study.
Mallus is commonly believed to be in the town of
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Pétridès 1910.
- ^ Strabo 1924, 14.5.16.
- ^ Arrian, Anab. ii. 5.
- ^ Beloe (1821), p. 269.
- ^ Strabo 1924, 14.5.17.
- ^ ARRIAN, ANABASIS OF ALEXANDER, § 2.5.9
- ^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, MALLOS Cilicia Campestris, Turkey.
- ^ ARRIAN, ANABASIS OF ALEXANDER, § 2.20.2
- ^ 2 Maccabees, 4:30, 31.
- ^ a b Smith 1857, p. 256.
- Stadiasmus Mar. M. §§ 151, 152; William Martin Leake, Asia Minor, pp. 216, &c."
- ^ Segreteria di Stato Vaticano 2013.
- ^ Mallus (Titular See)
- ^ SUDA ENCYCLOPEDIA, § del.1169
- ^ SUDA ENCYCLOPEDIA, § pi.2471
- ^ Philistides
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 4.20.1
- ^ Plutarch, Of Herodotus's Malice, Moralia, 24
- ^ S. Petrides, Mallus, Catholic encyclopedia.
- ^ Mallus in Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig 1931), p.435.
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Parigi 1740, vol.II, coll. 883-884.
- ^ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 4, p. 229; vol. 5, p. 253; vol. 6, p.274.
- ^ Charles Joseph Hefele, A History of the Councils of the Church: from the Original Documents, to the close of the Second Council of Nicaea A.D. 787 (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1 Feb 2007) page 67.
- ^ titular See, www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ La sede titular seat at www.gcatholic.org
- ^ Quintus Curtius, iii.7.
- ^ Seton-Williams 1954, p. 171.
- ^ Cohen 1995, p. 360.
- ^ Akpinar 2006, Ancient....
References
- Akpinar, E. (2006). Ancient Settlement Pattern Analysis for the region of Cilicia between Bronze Age and the Byzantine Era. AAG Conference. Chicago.
- Cohen, G. (1995), The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Hellenistic Culture and Society, p. 17
- Herodotus (1821), Beloe, William (ed.), Herodotus, vol. II (4th ed.), London: F.C. & J. Rivington & al..
- Quintus Curtius, Histories of Alexander the Great, iii.7
- Segreteria di Stato Vaticano (2013), Annuario Pontificio 2013, Vatican City: Libreria editrice vaticana, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
- Seton-Williams, M.V. (1954), "Cilician Survey", Anatolian Studies, 4: 121–174, S2CID 246047087
- Strabo (1924), Jones, H. L. (ed.), Geography, Book 14, chapter 5, section 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, retrieved 9 April 2017
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Pétridès, Sophron (1910). "Mallus". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. (endnotes: Smith 1857, "Mallus"; and others)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Mallus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. p. 256.
Further reading
- MacDonagh, Bernard (1989). Blue guide Turkey : the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. London: A & C Black. p. 563. ISBN 0-393-30489-2.