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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART.II CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE
- CHAPTER IX Corinth, Sikyôn, and Megara.—Age of the Grecian Despots
- CHAPTER X Ionic portion of Hellas.—Athens before Solon
- CHAPTER XI Solonian Laws and Constitution
- CHAPTER XII Eubœa.—Cyclades
- CHAPTER XIII Asiatic Ionians
- CHAPTER XIV Æolic Greeks in Asia
- CHAPTER XV Asiatic Dorians
- CHAPTER XVI Natives of Asia Minor with whom the Greeks became connected
- CHAPTER XVII Lydians.—Medes.—Cimmerians.—Scythians
- CHAPTER XVIII Phenieians
- CHAPTER XIX Assyrians.—Babylon
- CHAPTER XX Egyptians
- CHAPTER XXI Decline of the Phenicians.—Growth of Carthage
- CHAPTER XXII Western Colonies of Greece—in Epirus, Italy, Sicily, and Gaul
- CHAPTER XXIII Grecian Colonies in and near Epirus
- CHAPTER XXIV Akarnanians.—Epirots
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CHAPTER XIV - Æolic Greeks in Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART.II CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE
- CHAPTER IX Corinth, Sikyôn, and Megara.—Age of the Grecian Despots
- CHAPTER X Ionic portion of Hellas.—Athens before Solon
- CHAPTER XI Solonian Laws and Constitution
- CHAPTER XII Eubœa.—Cyclades
- CHAPTER XIII Asiatic Ionians
- CHAPTER XIV Æolic Greeks in Asia
- CHAPTER XV Asiatic Dorians
- CHAPTER XVI Natives of Asia Minor with whom the Greeks became connected
- CHAPTER XVII Lydians.—Medes.—Cimmerians.—Scythians
- CHAPTER XVIII Phenieians
- CHAPTER XIX Assyrians.—Babylon
- CHAPTER XX Egyptians
- CHAPTER XXI Decline of the Phenicians.—Growth of Carthage
- CHAPTER XXII Western Colonies of Greece—in Epirus, Italy, Sicily, and Gaul
- CHAPTER XXIII Grecian Colonies in and near Epirus
- CHAPTER XXIV Akarnanians.—Epirots
- Plate section
Summary
On the coast of Asia Minor to the north of the twelve Ionic confederated cities, were situated the twelve Æolic cities, apparently united in a similar manner. Besides Smyrna, the fate of which has already been described, the eleven others were— Têmnos, Larissa, Neon-Teichos, Kymê, Ægæ, Myrina, Gryneium, Killa, Notium, Ægiroëssa, Pitanê. These twelve are especially noted by Herodotus as the twelve ancient continental Æolic cities, and distinguished on the one hand from the insular Æolic Greeks, in Lesbos, Tenedos, and Hekatonnesoi— and on the other hand from the Æolic establishments in and about Mount Ida, which seem to have been subsequently formed and derived from Lesbos and Kymê.
Of these twelve Æolic towns, eleven were situated very near together, clustered round the the Elæitic Gulf: their territories, all of moderate extent, seem also to have been conterminous with each other. Smyrna, the twelfth, was situated to the south of Mount Sipylus, and at a greater distance from the remainder—one reason why it was so soon lost to its primitive inhabitants. These towns occupied chiefly a narrow but fertile strip of territory lying between the base of the woody mountain-range called Sardênê and the sea : Gryneium, like Kolophôn and Milêtus, possessed a venerated sanctuary of Apollo, of older date than the Æolic immigration: Larissa, Têmnos, and Ægae were at some little distance from the sea; the first at a short distance north of the Hermus, by which its territory was watered and occasionally inundated, so as to render embankments necessary; the last two upon rocky mountain-sites, so inaccessible to attack, that the inhabitants were enabled, even during the height of the Persian power, to maintain constantly a substantial independence.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 254 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010