Myus
Sign in to saveMyus (), sometimes Myous or Myos, or Myes, was an ancient Greek city in Caria. It was one of thirteen major settlements of the Ionian League, and was one of three that spoke the same Ionic subdialect, the other two being Miletus and Priene. All three were Ionian colonies placed at the mouth of the Maeander River in the middle of the west coast of Anatolia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Myus
- Ancient site.native_name
- Μυοῦς, Μύης, Μυήσιοι, Μυήσσιοι
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Myous, Myos
- Ancient site.image
- Myus1.jpg
- Ancient site.image_size
- 270
- Ancient site.caption
- Byzantine fortess at the former location of Myus. The ancient Greek polis had been gone for many centuries when this fort was built.
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 270
- Ancient site.location
- Avşar, Aydın Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- ancient Caria
- Ancient site.type
- Polis
- Ancient site.part_of
- Ionian League
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- Site topography
- Original Miletus Bay
- Maeander river
- Placement of the city
- Progradation in the gulf
- Sedimentary events at Myus
- The coast of Ionia at Miletus Bay
- The date of the Ionian League
- Loss of the marine environment
- History
- The Ionian invasion
- Foundation of the polis
- Under the Lydians
- Under the Persians
- In the Ionian revolt
- In the Delian League
- Municipal unit of Miletus
- Archaeology
- Temples
- Inscriptions
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Reference bibliography
- External links
Myus (), sometimes Myous or Myos, or Myes, was an ancient Greek city in Caria. It was one of thirteen major settlements of the Ionian League, and was one of three that spoke the same Ionic subdialect, the other two being Miletus and Priene. All three were Ionian colonies placed at the mouth of the Maeander River in the middle of the west coast of Anatolia.
Miletus was more ancient than the Ionians, having been occupied by various ethnic groups since the Neolithic. It was partly Hellenized in the Late Bronze Age by Achaeans, who are termed Mycenaeans in scholarly language. The previous inhabitants at that time were Anatolian language speakers, ancestors of the Carians. The Ionians secured it along with its multi-cultural population during the Submycenaean period between the Bronze Age and the Dark Age. If the re-colonization is the remote start of the Ionian League, Myus and Priene must have been in existence then, although there is no evidence that they were pre-Ionian.