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Location

  • Türkiye, Avşar
  • geo:37.596642,27.428856

Period or year

  • -500~ / -100~

Classification

  • industry
  • Visible

Myus, Aphrodite's Harbour

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Then one comes to Myus Harbour, which is also called Aphrodite's Harbour; it is a large harbour with a winding entrance, off which lie three islands; two of these are densely shaded with olive trees, while  p317 the third is less so and is full of guinea-fowls1.

Sources:

  1. Strabo, The Geography Book VII, Chapterr IV.5
  2. Lukas Thommen, An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press,  2012, p. 27

 

References

  1. ↑ The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. VII of the Loeb Classical Library edition,1932

Relevant museums

  • Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
    Germany, Berlin

Nearby sites

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2020-04-03) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta (2020) Myus, Aphrodite's Harbour. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/64599, accessed 2026-11-14.