"There existed at the commencement of historical Greece, in
776 B. C., besides the Ionians in Attica and the Cyclades,
twelve Ionian cities of note on or near the coast of Asia
Minor, besides a few others less important. Enumerated from
south to north, they stand—Milêtus, Myûs, Priênê, Samos,
Ephesus, Kolophôn, Lebedus, Teôs, Erythræ, Chios, Klazomenæ,
Phôkæa. … Milêtus, Myûs and Priênê were situated on or near
the productive plain of the river Mæander; while Ephesus was
in like manner planted near the mouth of the Kaïster … :
Kolophon is only a very few miles north of the same river.
Possessing the best means of communication with the interior,
these towns seem to have thriven with greater rapidity than
the rest; and they, together with the neighbouring island of
Samos, constituted in early times the strength of the
Pan-Ionic Amphiktyony. The situation of the sacred precinct of
Poseidôn (where this festival was celebrated) on the north
side of the promontory of Mykalê, near Priênê, and between
Ephesus and Milêtus, seems to show that these towns formed the
primitive centre to which the other Ionian settlements became
gradually aggregated. For it was by no means a centrical site
with reference to all the twelve. … Moreover, it seems that
the Pan-Ionic festival [the celebration of which constituted
the Amphiktyony], though still formally continued, had lost
its importance before the time of Thucydidês, and had become
practically superseded by the more splendid festival of the
Ephesia, near Ephesus, where the cities of Ionia found a more
attractive place of meeting."
_G. Grote,
History of Greece
part 2, chapter 13 (volume 3)_.
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IOWAS, The.
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