Klazomenai - Clazomenae was the cityt of the Ionian Dodecapolis. The name probably comes from the verb ‘klazo’, which Homer connects with the cries of birds living at the mouth of River Hermos. According to Pausanias, the colonists of Clazomenae first settled in mainland, in the position Chyton, while later, fearful of the Persians, they moved to the island which is now connected to land. "The cities of Clazomenae and Phocaea were not inhabited before the Ionians came to Asia. When the Ionians arrived, a wandering division of them sent for a leader, Parphorus, from the Colophonians, and founded under Mount Ida a city which shortly afterwards they abandoned, and returning to Ionia they founded Scyppium in the Colophonian territory. They left of their own free-will Colophonian territory also, and so occupied the land which they still hold, and built on the mainland the city of Clazomenae. Later they crossed over to the island through their fear of the Persians. But in course of time Alexander the son of Philip was destined to make Clazomenae a peninsula by a mole from the mainland to the island. Of these Clazomenians the greater part were not Ionians, but Cleonaeans and Phliasians, who abandoned their cities when the Dorians had returned to Peloponnesus.1"
See:
- Pausanias, DESCRIPTION OF GREECE, Book VII.3.8-9 [TRANSLATED BY W. H. S. JONES. ]
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