Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia MinorVaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright)
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Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright)
Greeks -- Turkey; Turkey -- History
From Assos St. Paul took ship to Mytilene, proceeding onwards to Chios,
Samos, Trogyllium, and Miletus. At this last place, he summoned the
elders from Ephesus, and bade a solemn farewell to the Christians of
Asia, among whom he had laboured so long and so efficiently; and passing
thence by Coos and Rhodes to Patara, finally entered a ship there, and
sailed to Phœnicia (xxi. 1). At Trogyllium the Admiralty chart shows a
harbour that still bears the name of St. Paul’s Port. So far as we know,
with the exception of touching at Cnidus on his last voyage to Rome, St.
Paul had no further connection with Asia Minor.
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INDEX.
Abydus, Xerxes builds his bridge near, 5.
Ancyra, temple and inscription of Augustus, 144-147.
Antioch of Pisidia, site of, suggested by Mr. Arundell, proved by Mr.
Hamilton, 111-114.
Apamea, and the legend of the ark resting there, 133-135.
Argæus, Mt., near Cæsarea, ascended for the first time by Mr. Hamilton,
151.
Asia Minor, size of, 1;
less productive than of old, 2;
chief islands of, noticed here, Lesbos, Samos, Chios, Rhodus and
Cyprus, 156-171.
Aspendus, beauty of theatre at, 102.
Assus, importance of the monuments found there, 7.
Attali, gallant character of the family of, 31, 32.
Attalia (now Adalia), important port of, 99, 100.
Beaufort, Capt., discovery by of the granary of Trajan at Myra, 98.
Branchidæ, famous oracle and temple at, 48, 49;
important excavations at by Mr. Newton, 49-55.
Chios, through all history, ancient and modern, cruelly
treated by its neighbours, 159, 160.
Cnidus, important excavations at by Mr. Newton, 73-80.
Colossæ, satisfactorily identified by Mr. Hamilton, 142-143.
Cyprus, recent valuable researches in by Mr. Lang and General Palma di
Cesnola, 166-171.
Cyzicus, position of, 3.
Ephesus, one of the most important of the cities of W. Asia, 37;
discovery of its famous temple of Diana by Mr. Wood, 42-45.
Falkener, Mr., interesting notice of Mt. Karadagh and of Bir-bir-
Kalisseh, the 1,001 churches, 130.
Gomperz, Prof., interpretation by of some inscriptions found by Dr.
Schliemann, 27, 28.
Hierapolis, remarkable petrifactions near, 137, 139.
Hissarlik, the true site of ancient Troy, 10;
as also of new Troy, 29.
Iconium, its history, ancient and mediæval, 127-128.
Isaura, Mr. Hamilton identifies the site of, 125-126.
Lampsacus, for some time the home of Themistocles, 5.
Laodicea (ad Lycum), the chief town of Roman Proconsular Asia, 139-141.
Lesbos, general character of its citizens, 156-157.
Lystra and Derbe, difficulties in their identification, 129-130.
Magnesia (the Lydian), legends of Tantalus and Niobe connected with,
56, 57.
Mausoleum, or tomb of Mausolus, excavations at, by Mr. Newton, 62-70.
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