This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...colonists, probably Seleucid, is proved by an inscription to have existed in the valley below on the road to Cibyra, at Eriza (near Dere-Keui) and the neighbouring villages.2 1 Strabo xiii. 830. 'It is probable that the n-fonndalinn of these towns as Antiochs belong to the time of Antlochus HI. Strabo xiv. 868; cr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...colonists, probably Seleucid, is proved by an inscription to have existed in the valley below on the road to Cibyra, at Eriza (near Dere-Keui) and the neighbouring villages.2 1 Strabo xiii. 830. 'It is probable that the n-fonndalinn of these towns as Antiochs belong to the time of Antlochus HI. Strabo xiv. 868; cr. Ramsay, Historical Geography of A Ha Minor, p. 171. Ktepert, connecting Antioch and Philomelium by a road across the Paroreia, makes them both stations on the main road, bnt there appears to be no possibility of more than a rough bridle-path over the mountain, Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 28; Murray, Ana Minor, p. 148. Strabo xii. 677. Going westward still, we find a road connecting TrallesAntioch on the main road with the harbours of Southern Caria, Physcus, and Caunus. It was the further connexion of these harbours with a great commercial state like Rhodes, which indeed came to possess them as dependencies, that the importance of this road across Caria lay. It passed through the old centres of Carian life, through Alabanda and by the temple of Zeus Chrysaoreus, the religious centre of the Carian people, in which the federal parliament assembled, composed of delegates from the various groups of villages.8 In both places the Seleucid government made establishments. Alabanda for a time became Antioch.4 By the temple of Zeus Chrysaoreus arose a new Macedonian city, Stratonicea, founded no doubt by Antiochus I in honour of his wife. The Macedonian settlers took part in the national assemblies and cults at the neighbouring temples.6 To find the other colonies, which are certainly Seleucid, we must go northwards to those roads which bind the capital, Sardis, to the Troad--the highway, that is, between Sardis and Europe--and to the Propontis....
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