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🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291196" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291196">📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291458" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291458">📖 Pausanias 7.17.9-7.17.12</span>
  • Alternative names
    Maionia
    Information
    Maionia, region in Asia Minor
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550701
    Cult site of
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian) Olympian god👤 Cybele (goddess) 'Mother of the Gods'👤 Rhea Titan
    Place of birth of
    👤 Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god👤 Niobe (Theban) daughter of Tantalos, wife of Amphion, transformed into stone👤 Acoetes follower of Dionysos
    Place of death of
    👤 Attis Phrygian attendant of Cybele👤 Dioxippe (Lydian) character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
    Settled by
    👥 the Amazons tribe of warrior women
    Ruled by
    👤 Iardanes father of Omphale👤 Tmolos (Lydian II) character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers👤 Meion (Phrygian) king of Phrygia and Lydia👤 Tantalos (Lydian) father of Pelops and Niobe, punished in the underworld👤 Omphale queen of Lydia👤 Lydos Lydian, son of Atys👤 Tmolos (Lydian I) king of Lydia, husband of Omphale👤 Atys Lydian king
    Conquered by
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian) Olympian god👤 Ninos (Babylonian) mythical king of Babylon👤 Ariaios king of Arabia
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryHomer, IliadDionysios, PeriegesisPausaniasPlutarch, Theseus Homeric Hymn 3 to ApolloHesiod, Idaian DactylsEumelos, TitanomachyPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesLucian, Dialogues of the Gods Exerpta VaticanaLucian, Parliament of the GodsLucian, On the Syrian GoddessLucian, The DanceLucian, How to Write HistoryPindar, Olympian 1Lucian, GoutPs-Plutarch, On RiversDiodoros, LibraryHesiodOvid, MetamorphosesStraboLycophron, AlexandraIon of Chios, TragediesPliny, Natural HistoryEuripides, BacchaeConon, Narrations
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11 📖 Pausanias 7.17.9-7.17.12
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