Ancient site· Ödemiş, İzmir
Hypaipa
Hypaipa is a ancient site in Ödemiş, İzmir; Hypaepa was an ancient city and (arch)bishopric in ancient Lydia, near the north bank of the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) River, about 67 km from Ephesus.
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- 38.2761°N · 27.9542°E
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Hypaepa was an ancient city and (arch)bishopric in ancient Lydia, near the north bank of the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) River, about 67 km from Ephesus. It survives today as a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Four kilometres north-west of Ödemiş, near the north bank of the Küçük Menderes and at the foot of Mount Aipos, stood a Lydian city whose name derives from that position. It lay on the road between Sardis and Ephesus, and Ovid, comparing it with great Sardis, called the place little Hypaepa. Under Tiberius it was nominated as the site for a temple of the imperial cult but rejected as too insignificant a settlement. In 88 BC, when Mithridates ordered the massacre of Romans across Anatolia, the city suffered badly. In antiquity it produced madder dyes, woven cloth and a perfume called saffron.
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- The site was confirmed by excavations carried out in 1892 by Demostene Baltazzi on behalf of the Ottoman government.
- Judging by the number of Byzantine churches it contained, the city grew prosperous in the Byzantine period.
- Ovid names Hypaipa as the place where Arachne lived before she was turned into a spider.
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