Myrina (Greek: Μυρίνα), was one of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Mysia, about 40 stadia to the southwest of Gryneium. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Mysia (Μυσία was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor or Anatolia (part of modern Turkey) The stadia, stadium, stade or stadion is an ancient unit of length [1] Its site is believed to be occupied by the modern Sandarlik at the mouth of the Koca Çay. [2]
It is said to have been founded by one Myrinus before the other Aeolian cities[3], or by the Amazon Myrina[4]. The Amazons (in Greek, grc Ἀμαζόνες are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who were possibly historical Myrina was according to Greek mythology, a queen of the Amazons who had defeated the people of Atlantis who lived on the shores of the Ocean in a land Artaxerxes gave Gryneium and Myrina to Gongylus, an Eretrian, who had been banished from his native city for favoring the interests of Persia. Artaxerxes (Latin Greek Ἀρταξέρξης is a corruption of Old Persian Artaxšacā, "whose reign is through arta (truth" Gongylus is a genus of empusids in the order Mantodea. Characterized by extremely slender limbs with large appendages at least one species ( Gongylus This is an article about the Greek city of Eretria on Euboea It should not be confused with Eretria in western Magnesia, Greece or the modern African nation The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia [5]
Myrina was a very strong place[6], though not very large, and had a good harbor. [7] Pliny[8] mentions that it bore the surname of Sebastopolis; while, according to Syncellus, it was also called Smyrna. Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, ( AD 23 – August 25, AD 79 better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Author George Syncellus (died after 810 was a Byzantine chronicler and ecclesiastic For some time Myrina was occupied by Philip of Macedon; but the Romans compelled him to evacuate it, and declared the place free. Philip was the name of several Macedonian monarchs Philip I of Macedon (ruled 640–602 BC Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC [9] It twice suffered severe earthquakes; first in the reign of Tiberius[10], on which occasion it received a remission of duties on account of the loss it had sustained; and a second time in the reign of Trajan[11]. Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (or Tiberius I) born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16 42 BC – March 16 AD 37) was the second Roman Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan ( September 18 53 &ndash August 9 117) was a Roman Emperor who The town was restored each time, and continued to exist until a late period. [12] Myrina minted coins in antiquity, some of which survive.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856). Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c AD 536-582/594 of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek Poet and the The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents
- ^ Herod. i. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash 149.
- ^ Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 56 & notes. Richard JA Talbert (born 1947 is a contemporary British-American ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert
- ^ Mela, i. Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman Geographer. 18.
- ^ Strabo xi. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. p. 505, xii. p. 573, xiii. p. 623; Diod. iii. 54.
- ^ Xenoph. Hellen. Xenophon (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών" "Ξενοφώντας" ca iii. 1. § 4.
- ^ Liv. xxxiii. Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC &ndash AD 17 known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome 30.
- ^ Scylax, p. Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC 36; Agath. Praef. p. 9, ed. Bonn.
- ^ v. 32.
- ^ Liv. l. c,; Polyb. xviii. Polybius (ca 203 &ndash 120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories 27.
- ^ Tac. Ann. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. ii. 47.
- ^ Oros. vii. 12.
- ^ Steph. Byz. s. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl v. ; Ptol. v. Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after 83 &ndash ca 2. § 6; Apollon. Rhod. i. 604; Hierocl. p. Hierocles or Hierokles (in Greek Ιεροκλής) was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the 661; Geogr. Rav. v. The Ravenna Cosmography was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700 9, where it is called Myrenna, while in the Peut. Tab. it bears the name Marinna. The Tabula Peutingeriana ( Peutinger table) is an Itinerarium showing the Cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. )
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