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🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor)

<span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10187360" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10187360">📖 Pausanias 5.13.11</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10187785" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10187785">📖 Pausanias 7.2.5</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11322822" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11322822">📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 30</span>
Alternative name
🌍 Anactoria (alt. Miletos)
Information
city in Asia Minor
Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169460
Pleiades
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599799
Cult site of
👤 Artemis👤 Poseidon
Place of birth of
👤 Anax (Milesian)
Place of death of
👤 Byblis👤 Ladon (serpent)
Place of burial of
👤 Neileus (Ionian)
Founded by
👤 Miletos👥 the Ionians👥 the Sons of Codros👤 Neileus (Ionian)👤 Sarpedon (Lycian)
Founded from
🌍 Pylos (Messenia)🌍 Miletos (Crete)🌍 Attica🌍 Athens (Attica)🌍 Helice (Achaia)
Settled by
👤 Neileus (Ionian)👥 the Ionians
Games established by
👤 Son of Eritharses (name unknown)👤 Smicros
Fortified by
👤 Neileus (Ionian)
Named by
👤 Sarpedon (Lycian)
Eponym
👤 Miletos
Derives etymology from
🌍 Miletos (Crete)
Ruled by
👤 Leodamas (Milesian)👤 Asterios (Milesian)👤 Miletos👤 Anax (Milesian)
Conquered by
👤 Neileus (Ionian)👥 the Ionians👤 Miletos
Relics preserved on site
🏛️ the Tomb of Neileus (Miletos)🏛️ the Altar of Heliconian Poseidon at Miletos
Encompasses
🏛️ the Tomb of Neileus (Miletos) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon at Miletos (Caria) 🏛️ the Altar of Heliconian Poseidon at Miletos 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis at Miletos
Related entities
👤 Miletos👥 the Caria Contingent at Troy (defenders)🌍 Caria (Asia Minor)🌍 Mount Phthires (Caria)🌍 River Maiandros (Caria)🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria)👤 Apollo🌍 Delphi (Phocis)🌍 Claros (Ionia)👥 the Ionians👤 Neileus (Ionian)👤 Anax (Milesian)🌍 Crete (island)🌍 Anactoria (alt. Miletos)👤 Minos (Cretan I)🏛️ the Tomb of Neileus (Miletos)👤 Asterios (Milesian)🌍 Athens (Attica)🌍 Naxos (island)🌍 Lemnos (island)👤 Leto🌍 Mount Ida (Troad)🌍 Lesbos (island)🌍 Phocaia (Ionia)🌍 Euboia (island)🌍 Scyros (island)🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly)🌍 Paros (island)🌍 Samos (island)🌍 Delos (island)🌍 Chios (island)🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia)🌍 Aigina (island)🌍 Samothrace (island)🌍 Crapathos (island)🌍 Cos (city)🌍 Imbros (island)🌍 Mount Corycos (Ionia)🌍 Aigai (Achaia)🌍 Eiresiai (unlocatable)🌍 Peparethos (island)🌍 Autocane (Ionia)🌍 Mount Aisagee (unlocatable)🌍 Rhenaia (island)🌍 Cnidos (Asia Minor)🌍 Acte (Chalcidice)🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor)🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor)👥 the Hesperides🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides👤 Ladon (serpent)👤 Heracles👤 Hesperos (rationalized)👥 the Leleges of Asia Minor🌍 Colophon (Ionia)🌍 Clazomenai (Ionia)🌍 Ephesos (Asia Minor)🌍 Priene (Asia Minor)🌍 Myous (Asia Minor)🌍 Lebedos (Asia Minor)🌍 Teos (Asia Minor)🌍 Erythrai (Asia Minor)👥 the Sons of Codros🌍 Pylos (Messenia)👤 Branchos (Milesian)👤 Sarpedon (Lycian)🌍 Miletos (Crete)👤 Alexander (Trojan)👤 Daughter of Neileus (name unknown)🌍 Attica🌍 Chios (city)🌍 Samos (city)👤 Artemis🌍 the Sanctuary and Oracle of Apollo at Didyma (Asia Minor)👤 Eidothea (Carian)👤 Cyane (Carian)👤 Byblis👤 Caunos🌍 River Calbis (Lycia)🌍 Caunos (Caria)🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi👤 Democlos👤 Smicros👤 Son of Eritharses (name unknown)👤 Eritharses (Milesian)👤 Leucothea (goddess)👤 Wife of Smicros (name unknown)🌍 Carystos (Euboia)👤 Leodamas (Milesian)👤 Phitres👤 Mother of Euangelos (name unknown)👤 Euangelos🌍 Melos (island)🌍 Helice (Achaia)🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor)🏛️ the Altar of Heliconian Poseidon at Miletos👤 Poseidon🌍 the Sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon at Miletos (Caria)👤 Aphrodite👤 Pieria (Carian)👤 Phrygios
Mentioned by
📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.2📖 Homer, Iliad 2.867-2.875📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 441-446📖 Pausanias 7.2.1-7.2.4📖 Pausanias 7.2.5📖 Pausanias 7.2.6📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 25-49📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 179-181📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 18📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 225-258📖 Strabo 7.7.2📖 Strabo 8.7.1📖 Strabo 14.1.3📖 Strabo 14.1.5📖 Strabo 14.1.6📖 Strabo 12.8.5📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1362-1396⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 80-83b Harder📖 Callimachus, Iambi 1 = fr. 191-191b Pfeiffer📖 Callimachus, Lyric Poems fr. 229 Pfeiffer📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 30📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.450-9.665📖 Conon, Narrations 2📖 Conon, Narrations 33📖 Conon, Narrations 44📖 Parthenios, Erotica Pathemata 11📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 20.403
Mentioned in text
Apollodoros, LibraryHomer, IliadDionysios, PeriegesisPausanias Homeric Hymn 3 to ApolloPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisStraboLycophron, AlexandraCallimachus, AetiaCallimachus, IambiCallimachus, Lyric PoemsAntoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesOvid, MetamorphosesConon, NarrationsParthenios, Erotica PathemataD-Scholia, Iliad
Reported to be mentioned in text
EphorosNicanderApolloniosAristocritosCleitophon
Mentioned in citation of
📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 127📖 Nicander fr. 46 Gow-Scholfield📖 Apollonios fr. 5 Powell📖 Aristocritos FGrHist 493 fr. 1📖 Cleitophon FHG fr. 5
Relevant to local traditions reported from
🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor)
Reported to have local traditions about
👤 Heracles🏛️ the Blood Altar at Didyma👤 Anax (Milesian)🌍 Anactoria (alt. Miletos)🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor)👤 Asterios (Milesian)🌍 Crete (island)👤 Miletos👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan)👤 Minos (Cretan I)👤 Byblis🏛️ the Spring of Byblis (Miletos)
Local traditions reported by
📖 Pausanias 5.13.11 📖 Pausanias 7.2.5 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 30
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