- Pausanias: The Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half Ionian, had as their founders Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Aepytus, the son of Neileus. The people of Priene, although they suffered much at the hands of Tabutes the Persian and afterwards at the hands of Hiero, a native, yet down to the present day are accounted Ionians.
- Originally founded 11th to 10th.C. bce. Priene was an ancient Ionian city and member of the Ionian League, a confederation of twelve Greek city states. It's original settlement, now lost to silting from the Maeander River (Büyük Menderes) was situated on the sea coast. The city was refounded on its present site around 350 bce.
- Priene: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren 1895-1898. by Wiegand, Theodor, 1864-1936; Schrader, Hans, 1869-1948; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany) 1904 (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/prieneergebnisse00wieg
- Greeks: in Ionia and the East. by Cook, J.M. 1962. (Internet Archive) p. 180 - 196 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36690
- Inventory of Archaic & Classical Poleis. By Hansen & Nielsen 2004 p. 1091 - 1093 https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/AUTHORS/Hansen&Nielsen2004-LexiquePoleis.pdf
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp. 185-206
- Pausanias` Description of Greece, VII.2
