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Surroundings:

Bargilia theater

Location:

  • Türkiye, Bargylia
  • geo:37.19582,27.589487
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -5xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=10902

Annotations

Bargylia was an ancient  Carian city on the coast of Caria in southwestern Anatolia between Iasos and Myndus. According to the leged the city  have been founded by Bellerophon in honour of his friend Bargylos who had been killed by by a blow from Pegasus, his winged horse. Stephanus of Byzantium recorded the name Andanos and attributes her  foundation to Achilles1.

Bibliography:

  1. George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, pp.82-87
  2. George E. Bean: Bargylia or Andanos (Varvil) Turkey. In: Richard Stillwell et all (Eds..): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976
  3. Eugenio La Rocca, Archaeological Survey in the Gulf of Mandalya, 1988 - 89, in: . Arcıstırnıa Sonuçları Toplantısı , Çanakkale, 27 /1991, pp. 71-81
  4. Ludwig Bürchner: Bargylia. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band III,1, Stuttgart 1897, p. 15nn
  5. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976, s.v. BARGYLIA or Andanos (Varvil) Turkey. - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:id=bargylia&redirect=true
  6. Otto Gruppe, Griechische mythologie und religionsgeschichte, Bd. II, Munchen, C. H. Beck 1906, p. 261

 

References

  1. Otto Gruppe, Griechische mythologie und religionsgeschichte, Bd. II, Munchen, C. H. Beck 1906, p. 261


Nearby

Bargilia

Tuzla. Theatre of Bargilia

Bargilia [Bargylia]

Roman period building.

Bargilia modern Tuzla

Bouleuterion of Bargylia


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