The cities of southern Aeolis in the region surrounding Cyme occupied a good belt of land with rough mountains in the background, yet Cyme like other colonies along the coast did not trade with the native Anatolians further inland, who had occupied Asia Minor for thousands of years. Hesiod's father is said to have started his journey across the Aegean from Cyme. The Cymeans were later ridiculed as a people who had for three hundred years lived on the coast and not once exacted harbor taxes on ships making port. 1380-1000 B.C.'' Cambridge University Press, 1975.Ĭyme prospered and developed into a regional metropolis and founded about thirty towns and settlements in Aeolis. The city was founded after the Trojan War by Greeks from Locris, central Greece, after they have first captured the Pelasgian citadel of Larisa near the river Hermus. Tzifopoulos, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2017, pg154 Panhellenes at Methone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin, Yannis Z. During the Late Bronze Age and early Greek Dark Ages, the dialect of Cyme and the surrounding region of Aeolis, like that of neighboring island Lesbos, closely resembled the local dialect of Thessalia and Boetia in continental Greece. Ancient coins from Cyme often depict the head of Kyme wearing a taenia with the reverse featuring a horse prancing - probably in allusion to the prosperous equine industry of the region.Īlternatively, settlers from mainland Greece (most likely Euboea) migrated across the Aegean Sea during the Late Bronze Age as waves of Dorian-speaking invaders brought an end to the once mighty Mycenaean civilization some time around 1050 BCE. The Amazons were a mythical tribe of warlike women from Pontos (or variously from Kolchis, Thrace or Skythia), who fought against Greek heroes.
According to legend, it was founded by the Amazon Kyme. Kyme was the largest of the Aiolian cities. Little is known about the foundation of the city to supplement the traditional founding legend. Forvm Ancient Coins, The Collaborative Numistimatics Project: Aeolis Catalogue (Strabo: 622)Īrchaeological finds such as coins give reference also to a river, believed to be that of the Hyllus. As a result of their direct access to the sea, unlike most non-landlocked settlements of the ancient world, trade is believed to have prospered.īoth the author of the 'life of Homer' and Strabo the ancient geographer, locate Cyme north of the Hermus river on the Asia Minor coastline, modern-day "Nemrut Limanı"(''in Turkish'')Īfter crossing the Hyllus, the distance from Larissa to Cyme was 70 stadia, and from Cyme to Myrina was 40 stadia. The Aeolians regarded Cyme as the largest and most important of their twelve cities, which were located on the coastline of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Cyme ( el|Κύμη or Κύμη Αιολίδας, Cyme of Aeolis) (modern Turkish ''Nemrut Limani'') or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis ( Asia Minor) close to the kingdom of Lydia.
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