Pygela
Ancient siteKuşadası, Aydın
37.8622°N · 27.2637°E
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Pygela is a ancient site in Aydın; Pygela (or Phygela) was a small town of ancient Ionia on the coast of the Caystrian Bay, a little south of Ephesus, located near Kuşadası.
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Pygela (or Phygela) was a small town of ancient Ionia on the coast of the Caystrian Bay, a little south of Ephesus, located near Kuşadası. Its founding is attributed in Greek mythology to the Mycenaean king Agamemnon. Its ruins lie right down on "Pygela Beach" and are partly drowned.
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- The town had a temple of Artemis Munychia.
- The tribute lists on the Athenian acropolis record Pygela paying the league one talent eleven times between 446/5 and 415/14 BC.
- It is one of the settlements whose foundation was attributed to the Amazons.
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