Notion (ancient city)

Coordinates: 37°59′34″N 27°11′51″E / 37.99278°N 27.19750°E / 37.99278; 27.19750
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Notion
Νότιον (in Greek)
Izmir Province, Turkey
RegionIonia
Coordinates37°59′34″N 27°11′51″E / 37.99278°N 27.19750°E / 37.99278; 27.19750
TypeSettlement
History
EventsBattle of Notium

Notion or Notium (

Izmir Province, Turkey
.

The earliest reference to Notion is in Herodotus, who includes it among the cities of Aeolis (of which it is the southernmost): "Kyme, which is called Phriconis, Larisai, Neon-teichos, Temnos, Killa, Notion, Aigiroëssa, Pitane, Aigaiai, Myrina, Grynei" (I:149). Its proximity to the Ionian city of Colophon needs explanation; we may "suppose either that the Ionian settlers negotiated their rights of passage up to their inland site or more probably that they reached it originally up one of the other river valleys."[1] Robin Lane Fox, discussing the early rivalry between the cities, writes:

Relations between Colophon and nearby Notion were never easy and their bitter rivalry may help to explain the story of a quarrel between the two prophets at Claros. The Aeolian Greeks at Notion had a special relationship with Aeolian Mopsus, but the Ionian Greeks at Colophon had a special relationship with Calchas. It was, then, particularly appealing for the Aeolian controllers of Claros to claim that Mopsus had outwitted Calchas and caused his death on the site.[2]

H. W. Parke suggests that in the seventh century BC "Claros was in the control of Notion, which must have remained a small Aeolian town dominated by its more powerful inland neighbour [Colophon], but also protected by it against the threat of Lydia. Notion itself was not big enough to send out colonies on its own."

Greco–Persian Wars and joined the Delian League separately (Colophon paying three talents a year, the smaller Notion only a third of a talent).[4]

During the first years of the

sympoliteia (federal league) with Colophon[5] and "by the Roman period the name of Notion dropped out of use completely."[6]

References

  1. ISBN 0-7099-4012-2
    ), p. 119.
  2. ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8
    ), p. 222.
  3. ^ Parke, The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor, pp. 120-21.
  4. ^ Parke, The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor, p. 122.
  5. ISBN 0-520-08329-6
    ), p. 184.
  6. ^ Parke, The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor, p. 126.
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