Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman.
- John Yonge Akerman
- Date:
- 1841
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the coins of Ephesus struck during the Roman dominion / By John Yonge Akerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Strabo4 savs that Ephesus was orimnallv named Smvrna, from an Amazon of that name : a portion of the people also being called Sisyrbita?, from another of the Amazons: that the ancient citv was about the Athenaeum, which, in die m * * time of this writer, was without the walls, at a spot called Hvpelteus. between the cliffs called Tracheia and Lepra» and that a party of these people went out and founded Smyrna. He speaks of Miletus and Ephesus as the best and most illustrious of cities: aplcrrai ttoXeic kcu £i•^ot.orarai. Then, after noticing Miletus and other places, he proceeds to describe the port of Panonnus, the temple of Diana, and the city of Ephesus.5 On the coast, at a short distance from the sea, was the beautiful grove called Ortygia, abounding in all sorts of trees, but especially the cypress, the river Cenehrius flowing through it, where Latona puri-. fled herself after childbirth. Above the grove is the mountain Solmissus, where the Curetes, bv the noise of y y * their cymbals, prevented Juno from hearing the cries of Latona The same author informs us, that the city was first inhabited bv the Cares and the Leleges: that the chief part of these were expelled by Androclus6, who settled his colonv about Mount Athenaeus and the fountain Hv- pelaeus, occupying a district adjacent to Mount Corrisus, and that it was thus inhabited to the time of Croesus: that the people afterwards, descending from the mountain tracts, dwelt around the temple to the time of Alexander, and that Lysimachus changed the name of the city to Arsinoe\ 4 Lib. xiv. c. 1. 0 Etra \ipjjv Havoppos KaXovptroe, iepov rijc Eoiciac 'Aarspicoc tiff j] ~6\ic. 6 Eusebius says, that Ephesus was founded bv Androclus, in the reign of David. Chronic. Canon. Ed. 1G58.' p. 100. See an article on the coins of Ephesus while called Arsinoe. Nuin. Chron. vol. ii. p. 171.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31871896_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
