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The Pediment of the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene, Magnesia ad MaeandrumRemains of the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene, Magnesia ad MaeandrumTemple of ZeusTheatreMagnesia TheaterTheater of Magnesia ad MeandrumMagnesia ad Meandrum, GymnasiumStadium of MagnesiaStadium of MagnesiaStadium of MagnesiaCharioteerGladiatorsMagnesia Stadium

Location:

  • Türkiye, Tekin
  • geo:37.852551,27.5266
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -398 / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Magnesia  Magnesia was founded in the archaic period by settlers originally from Thessalian .
Magnesia. Large and important city, the oracle of Apollo at Delphi declared that Magnesia and its environs were sacred ground. Nevertheless some time between 726 BC and 660 BC Magnesia was destroyed by the Cimmerians and deserted.

See:

  1. http://www.livius.org/maa-mam/magnesia/magnesia_meander.html
  2. Marie Saldaña,  Cave and City: A Procedural Reconstruction of the Urban Topographyof Magnesia on the Maeander, 2015 - http://escholarship.org/uc/item/12t2m3s6
  3. Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp. 177-184

Nearby

Altar of Artemis, Magnesia ad Meandrum

Altar in front of Artemision

Temple of Artemis, Magnesia ad Maeandrum

Temple of Artemis Leucophryne, Magnesia ad Maeandrum

Temple of Zeus, Magnesia ad Meandrum

Temple of Zeus


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