Ancient History
Ancient History
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- Gnash2
I’ve been there a few times. Great site. Ephesus was a Greek city, built by Greeks not Romans. While the Roman’s added some of the better preserved buildings, it was a major Greek center for 1000 years before the Roman’s got there
- city may have been built by Greeks but so many different cultures passed through this region. Today there are only legends about who may have built it.Beeswax
- They’re mythical origin stories about many cities. But the building of city Ephesus is quite well documented by both archeology and historical documentsGnash
- * there areGnash
- but it what's known is that it rose to prominence during Lydian, Ionian/Greek & Roman rules. The area is a mesh full of different civs from east and west.Beeswax
- The city was founded as a Greek colony. Of course many other peoples have occupied the same coordinates previously. But what is now known as Ephesus, is GreekGnash
- please share your well documented source so I get enlightened. So far its only based on mythical stories. ancient history is not something you can attest 100%Beeswax
- "According to legend, the Ionian prince Androclos founded Ephesus in the eleventh century B.C."Beeswax
- "Another legend says Ephesus was founded by the Amazons, a tribe of female warriors, and that the city was named after their queen, Ephesia."Beeswax
- Ya, every city back then had mythical origin stories.Gnash
- I wrote that its history goes back to neolithic age, that's at least 5000 years before greek colonies.That's what they found when hey excavated. Not a legend :)Beeswax
- The city of Ephesus was not founded in 5000bc, though. Obvs there was something going on before the Greeks founded the cityGnash
- Legend has it that Rome was founded by a couple of wolf furries but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how Rome was actually foundedGnash
- It was aliens.palimpsest
- Greek aliensGnash