Celaenae also Kelainai, an ancient city of Phrygia, situated on the great trade route to the East. In antiquity Phrygia (Φρυγία was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
Its acropolis long held out against Alexander in 333 and surrendered to him at last by arrangement. Acropolis (Gr akros akron edge extremity + polis city pl acropoleis Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' Events By place Macedonia King Alexander of Macedonia conquers western Asia Minor, subduing the hill tribes of His successor, Eumenes, made it for some time his headquarters, as did Antigonus until 301. Eumenes of Cardia ( Greek: Ευμένης ca 362 BC—316 BC was a Greek general and scholar Events By Place Asia Minor In The Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, the armies of Antigonus, the ruler of Syria
From Lysimachus it passed to Seleucus I Nicator, whose son Antiochus I Soter, seeing its geographical importance, refounded it on a more open site as Apamea. Lysimachus ( Greek: Λυσίμαχος Lysimachos; 360 BCE - 281 BCE was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i Seleucus I (surnamed for later generations Nicator, Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, i Antiochus I Soter (unknown - 261 BC was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. West of the acropolis were the palace of Xerxes I and the Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the Marsyas, one of the sources of the Maeander, issues. Xerxes I of Persia was a King of Persia (reigned 485–465 BC of the Achaemenid dynasty. In Greek mythology, the Satyr Marsyas ( gr) appeared in two vignettes: in one he picked up the double flute ( Aulos The Büyük Menderes River (historically the Maeander also spelled Meander) Turkish: Büyük Menderes Nehri, Ancient Greek:
According to Xenophon, Cyrus had a palace and large park full of wild animals at Celaenae. Xenophon (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών" "Ξενοφώντας" ca
See: G Weber, Dineir-Celanes (1892).
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