Antioch on the Maeander

Antioch on the Maeander

Antiochia on the Maeander also Antioch on the Maeander (Greek: Αντιόχεια του Μαίανδρου; Latin: Antiochia ad Mæandrum), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence and, though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander had "little or no individual history" (ref. princeton) The scanty ruins are located on a hill (named, in Turkish, Jeni-Sher or Yenişer) a few km southeast of Kuyucak, Aydin Province, Turkey, near the modern city of Başaran. The city already existed when Antiochus I enlarged and renamed it. It was home to the sophist Diotrephis. [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/gazetteer/0039.html] It has not been excavated, although Christopher Ratte et al. visited the site in 1994 and produced a sketch plan.

References

*"Blue Guide, Turkey: The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts" (ISBN 0-393-30489-2), p. 359.
* [http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.315.a.php Richard Stillwell, ed. "Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites", 1976:] "Antioch on the Maeander, Turkey"
*"Archeogical Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1994. American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 100, pp 5-33."


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