Halicarnassos
•Established by people from Troezene 1,00 B.C.
•Had two natural harbors
•Home of two historians : Herodotus & Dionysios
•Colossal “mausoleum” built by Pytheos with statues by Scopas (one of the 7 wonders). Destroyed by earthquake. The word “mausoleum” established
•Museum has the remains of two shipwrecks: 1. Helidonia: 1,200 B.C. with copper & tin coins
•2. Ulu Burun(Kas): 1,360 B.C. (Bronze Age) with a ton of tin, ebony from Africa, porphyry for red paint, mastich & oldest captains diary
•Budrum: name from castle of Petronios, used as a prison
Cnidos
•Established in Bronze Age, had 2 harbors
•Temples to Venus, Demeter, Dionysos & Apollo
•Two ancient theatres
•The most famous medical schools of antiquity
•Home of mathematician Eudoxos & architect Sostratos, builder of the Pharos of Alexandria (one of the 7 wonders)
•Praxiteles’s statue of naked Venus made here, 250 known copies were also made. Original destroyed in a fire in Constantinople 394 AD
Mylassa : mini Mausoleum
Stratonikeia
No comments:
Post a Comment