Ancient site· Dikili, İzmir
Pitane
Pitane is a ancient site in Dikili, İzmir; An ancient Greek town near Çandarlı, one of the important Aeolian settlements of antiquity.
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- 38.9310°N · 26.9361°E
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An ancient Greek town near Çandarlı, one of the important Aeolian settlements of antiquity. It lay on the Gulf of Elaea (Çandarlı), near the mouth of the river Evenus. With two sheltered harbours it enjoyed considerable commercial advantages and economic power in its day, and it was the birthplace of the academic philosopher Arcesilaus.
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An Aeolian city near Çandarlı in Dikili, İzmir, on the gulf of Elaea close to the mouth of the Evenus. It had two sheltered harbours and owed its commercial strength to them. In 335 BC the Macedonian general Parmenion laid siege to it and the city was saved by the timely intervention of Memnon of Rhodes; in 84 BC Mithridates VI of Pontus, fleeing the Roman general Fimbria, took refuge here and slipped away by sea to Lesbos before the blockade was resolved. It is also the birthplace of a philosopher: Arcesilaus, held to be the founder of Academic Scepticism, came from here.
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Did you know
- Legend has the city founded by the Amazons; the name Pitane is said to mean city of the queen, city of the goddess.
- A sixth-century BC kouros found by villagers in 1958 is in the Bergama Archaeological Museum; it brought Ekrem Akurgal to Çandarlı, where he excavated from 1959 to 1965.
- Akurgal wrote that the necropolis produced several dozen vases a day and called it the richest ancient Anatolian cemetery found up to that time.
- Pitane is taken to be the northernmost point Mycenaean culture reached on the Anatolian coast.
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