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Cadmus
(1,073 words)
(Κάδμος;
Kádmos, Lat. Cadmus). [German version] [1] Son of Agenor and Telephassa Son of Agenor [1] (or Phoenix) and Telephassa (or Argiope or Tyro), brother (or half-brother) of Phoenix, Cilix and others, uncle (or brother) of Europa [2], husband of Harmonia, father of Agave, Autonoe, Ino, Semele and of Polydorus (first mentioned in Hom. Od. 5.333;
Kadmeíoi Kadmeíōnes already mentioned in Hom. Il. 4.385 and passim; Hes. Theog. 937; 975-978; at least since Bacchyl. 19.46-51 descendant of Io). In his search for Europa, C. leaves Tyre (Hdt. 2.49.3; Eur. Phoen. 639)…
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Midaeum
(130 words)
[German version] (Μίδαιον/
Mídaion; Μιδάειον/
Midáeion). City named after its legendary founder king Midas (on coins from M.). Near the River Tembris (Porsuk Çayı; on coins from M.) in Phrygia Epictetus (Str. 12,8,12) at Karahöyük on a high hill. Inhabited from Phrygian until Byzantine times. To the east of Dorylaeum on the road to Pessinus (Tab. Peut. 9,3). As early as the 5th cent. BC mentioned by Hellanicus (FGrH 4 F 17). Sextus Pompeius was captured here in 36 BC (Cass. Dio 49,18,4). M. was in the
conventus of Synnada (Plin. HN 5,105). It minted coins from Augustus until Phili…
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Ipsus
(176 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Diadochi and Epigoni (Ἴψος;
Ípsos). Town near the Turkish village of Çayırbağı (formerly Sipsin, retaining its ancient name) near Afyon in central Phrygia. Famous as the site of the battle in 301 BC in which Lysimachus and Seleucus put an end to the plans of Antigonus [1] and his son Demetrius to retain the state created by Alexander the Great (Plut. Demetrius 29f.). I. has been located on a hill with Phrygian remains and Byzantine walls in the …
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Celaenae
(201 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Xenophon | Diadochi and Epigoni | Alexander (Κελαιναί;
Kelainaí). Former main town of Phrygia (Liv. 38,13), later founded again as Apamea [2] by Antiochus [2] I (Str. 12,8,15); modern Dinar. In C. stood a palace of Xerxes (Xen. An. 1,2,9) with a
parádeisos (‘game reserve’) of Cyrus (Xen. An. 1,2,7); it is named after Celaenus, a son of Poseidon, venerated in C. because of frequent earthquakes (Str. 12,8,18; but the coins of C. depict Zeus and Dionysus Kelaineus). …
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