Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
The Colophonians also regard the temple and oracle of Apollo at Claros
as most ancient, for, while the Carians were still in possession of the
country, they say that the first Greeks who came there were Cretans,
a large force powerful both by land and sea under Rhacius, and the
Carians remained still in possession of most of the country. But when
the Argives and Thersander the son of Polynices took Thebes, several
captives, and among others Manto were taken to Apollo at Delphi, but
Tiresias died on the road not far from Haliartus.[3] And when the
god sent them to form a colony they crossed over into Asia Minor,
and when they got to Claros the Cretans attacked them and took them
before Rhacius. And he, understanding from Manto who they were and
their errand, married Manto and made her companions fellow-settlers
with him. And Mopsus, the son of Rhacius and Manto, drove out all
the Carians altogether. And the Ionians on mutual conditions became
fellow-citizens upon equal terms with the Colophonian Greeks. And the
kingdom over the Ionians was usurped by their leaders Damasichthon and
Promethus the sons of Codrus. And Promethus afterwards slew his brother
Damasichthon and fled to Naxos, and died there, and his body was taken
home and buried by the sons of Damasichthon: his tomb is at a place
called Polytichides. And how Colophon came to be dispeopled I have
previously described in my account about Lysimachus: its inhabitants
were the only colonists at Ephesus that fought against Lysimachus and
the Macedonians. And the tombs of those from Colophon and Smyrna that
fell in the battle are on the left of the road to Claros.
Lebedus also was dispeopled by Lysimachus simply to add to the
population of Ephesus. It was a place in many respects favoured, and
especially for its very numerous and agreeable warm baths near the sea.
Originally it was inhabited by the Carians, till Andræmon, the son of
Codrus, and the Ionians drove them out. Andræmon’s tomb is on the left
of the road from Colophon, after you have crossed the river Calaon.
And Teos was colonized by the Minyæ from Orchomenus, who came with
Athamas; he is said to have been a descendant of Athamas the son of
Æolus. Here too the Carians were mixed up with the Greeks. And the
Ionians were conducted to Teos by Apœcus, the great-great-grandson of
Melanthus, who did no harm to either the Orchomenians or Teians. And
not many years afterwards came men from Attica and Bœotia, the former
under Damasus and Naoclus the sons of Codrus, the latter under the
Bœotian Geres, and both these new-comers were hospitably received by
Apœcus and the people of Teos.
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