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Teos

Teos (Greek: ????) or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia

Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Izmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Hellenes settlements....
, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus, colonized by Orchomenian

Orchomenus

Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:...
Minyans

Minyans

According to Greek mythology, the Minyans were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples is subject to repeated revision....
, Ionians

Ionians

The Ionians were one of the three populations into which the ancient Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided."Ionian" with reference to populations had two senses in Classical Greece....
, and Boeotians. It was the birthplace of Anacreon the poet, Hecateus

Hecataeus of Abdera

Hecataeus of Abdera, Thrace was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.Diogenes Laertius relates that he was a student of Pyrrho, along with Eurylochus, Timon , Nausiphanes of Teos and others, and includes him among the "Pyrrhoneans"....
the historian, Protagoras

Protagoras

Protagoras was a Pre-Socratic philosophy Ancient Greeks philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras , Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue....
the sophist, Scythinus the poet, Andron

Andron

Andron , or Andronitis, is part of a Greek house that is reserved for men, as distinguished from the gynaeceum , the women's quarters....
the geographer, and Apellicon

Apellicon of Teos

Apellicon , a wealthy native of Teos, afterwards an Athens citizen, was a famous book collecting of the 1st century BCE.He not only spent large sums in the acquisition of his library, but stole original documents from the archives of Athens and other cities of Ancient Greece....
, the preserver of the works of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
.

Teos was a flourishing sea-port with two fine harbours until Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
invaded Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
and Ionia

Ionia

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Teos (Greek: ????) or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia

Ionia

Orchomenus

Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:...
Minyans

Minyans

Ionians

Hecataeus of Abdera

Protagoras

Andron

Andron , or Andronitis, is part of a Greek house that is reserved for men, as distinguished from the gynaeceum , the women's quarters....
the geographer, and Apellicon

Apellicon of Teos

Aristotle

Cyrus the Great

Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
and Ionia

Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Izmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Hellenes settlements....
(ca. 540 BC). The Teans found it prudent to retire overseas, to the newly founded colonies of Abdera

Abdera

Abdera is the name of two ancient cities:* Abdera, Thrace* Abdera, SpainAlso:* Apache Abdera is an implementation of the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol...
in Thrace

Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
and Phanagoria

Phanagoria

Phanagoria was the largest Greek colonies on the Taman peninsula, spreading on two plateaux along the Asian shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus, 25 kilometers northeast of Hermonassa....
on the Asian side of the Cimmerian Bosporus.

Having lost its former importance, Teos ranked among twelve cities comprising the Ionian League

Ionian League

The Ionian League , also called the Panionic League, was a confederation formed at the end of the Mycale#The_state_of_Melia in the mid-7th century BC comprising twelve Ionian cities ....
. The port was revived by Antigonus Cyclops; and Epicurus

Epicurus

Epicurus was an Greek philosophy and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works....
reportedly studied there under a disciple of Democritus

Democritus

Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera in the north of Greece. He was the most prolific, and ultimately the most influential, of the pre-Socratic philosophers; his atomic theory may be regarded as the culmination of early Greek thought....
. During the times of the Roman emperors, the town was noted for its wine and the temple of Dionysus

Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
. The modern city of Sigacik is situated close to the ruins of Teos.

Vitruvius

Vitruvius

File:Vitruvius.jpgMarcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Ancient Rome writer, architect and engineer , active in the 1st century BC. By his own description Vitruvius served as a Ballista , the third class of arms in the military offices....
(vii, introduction) notes Hermogenes of Priene

Hermogenes of Priene

Interest in Hermogenes of Priene , the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis at Magnesia on the Maeander in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the B?y?k Menderes River river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the first century Roman architect Vitruvius ....
as the architect of the monopteral temple for Father Bacchus at Teos.

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