Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

The architectural style of the capital city of ancient Rome was emulated by other urban centers under Roman control and influence, like the Verona Arena, Verona, Italy ; Arch of Hadrian, Athens, Greece ; Temple of Hadrian, Ephesos, Turkey ; a Theatre at Orange, France ; and at several other locations, for example, Lepcis Magna, located in Libya.

* Die Ruinen von Ephesos = The ruins of Ephesus, Berlin a.

Though the Macedonians did not consider Philip a god, he did receive other forms of recognition by the Greeks, such as at Eresos ( altar to Zeus Philippeios ), Ephesos ( his statue was placed in the temple of Artemis ), and Olympia, where the Philippeion was built.

After the death of this father, Antiochus, he was proclaimed king by his mother, Laodice in Ephesos, while her partisans at Antioch murdered Berenice and her son, another Antiochus.

This idea was later copied in Didyma, Ephesos and Athens.

Under the new Pope Innocent XIII, he finally was named Nuncio in Lucerne, Switzerland, and also made titulary archbishop of Ephesos.

exhibit the same degree of naturalism, and the archaic column sculptures from the Temple of Artemis Ephesos, thought to have been supplied by Croesus of Lydia, share some anatomical features.

It has been attested in the cities of Miletus, Ephesos, Halikarnassos, Erythrae, Teos ( all situated in the region of Ionia in Asia Minor ), in the island of Samos, in the Ionian colony of Massilia, and in Kyzikos ( situated farther north in Asia Minor, in the region of Mysia ).

Meanwhile, Prepelaus captured Adramyttion, Ephesos, Teos and Colophon ; he could not however capture Erythrae or Clazomenae, again due to sea-borne reinforcements.

Notable artists of this genre who were originally refugees from Asia Minor include the bouzouki player Nikolaos " Nikolis " Sarimanolis ( Νικολής Σαριμανώλης ; born in Nea Ephesos in 1919 ) as a member of a folk-group founded by Kostas Papadakis in Chaniá in 1945, Antonis Katinaris ( also based in Chaniá ), and the Rethymnon-based Mihalis Arabatzoglou and Nikos Gialidis.

The eastern Cliffs with the monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa seen from Agia AnnaDue to Amorgos ' position opposite the ancient beaches of Ionian towns, such as Militos, Alikarnassos and Ephesos, it became one of the first places from which the Ionians passed through to the Cyclades Islands and onto the Greek mainland.

Overseas excavations continued and John Turtle Wood discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, another Wonder of the Ancient World.

The Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean cultures are represented, and the Greek collection includes important sculpture from the Parthenon in Athens, as well as elements of two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos.

:; Temple of Artemis at Ephesos

** Ephesos: Cult of Demeter and Kore, celebrated at night-time.

* Die Philosophie Herakleitos des Dunklen von Ephesos.

Demetrius thus hastily arranged a truce with Cassander, and took his army by sea across the Aegean to Ephesos.

He re-captured Ephesos, and marched north to the Hellespont, where he established a strong garrison and fleet to prevent European reinforcements reaching the allied army in Asia.

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* Ephesos.

* Nochmals die Sphinxgruppe von Ephesos, in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 45, 1960, p. 5

* Zum Partherdenkmal von Ephesos in, 1971, p. 102

* Das Monument des C. Memmius = The Monument of C. Memmius ( with A. Bammer ), Vienna, 1971 ( research in Ephesos, p. 7 )

From there he travelled to Anaea in Asia Minor and finally made it to Ephesos.

The line was called Tylonids after his Lydian name.

Herodotus relates also the Lydian tradition: " yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter name, saying that Asia was not named after Prometheus ' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name ".

However, the Indo-European Lydian language is first attested some time after the Tyrrhenian migrants are said to have left for Italy.

According to Greek historians, Gargittos was a local hero of the region who inhabited Attica after moving from Peloponesse during the Peloponnesian Wars, descending from Asia alongside with the Lydian Pelops.

Karun Treasure is the name given to a collection of 363 valuable Lydian artifacts dating from the 7th century BC and originating from Uşak Province in western Turkey, which were the subject of a legal battle between Turkey and New York Metropolitan Museum of Art between 1987 – 1993 and which were returned to Turkey in 1993 after the Museum admitted it had known the objects were stolen when they had purchased them.

After having dug for days and unable to break through the marble masonry of the chamber door, they had dynamited the roof of the tomb in the night of 6 June 1966, to be the first to see the breathtaking sight of the buried Lydian noblewoman and her treasures after 2600 years.

His second wife was Omphale, the Lydian queen or princess to whom he was delivered as a slave.

Pausanias ( 2. 21. 3 ) gives yet another name, mentioning Tyrsenus, son of Heracles by " the Lydian woman ", by whom Pausanias presumably means Omphale.

Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his " Lydian " city of the sixth stratum.

Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his " Lydian " city of the sixth stratum.

According to Stephanus of Byzantium, he called this city " thuateira " from Greek " θυγατήρ ", " θυγατέρα " ( thugater, thugatera ), meaning " daughter ", although it is likely that it is an older, Lydian name.

Strabo mentions that around his time ( 1st century BC ), the Lydian language had become extinct in Lydia proper, but was still being spoken among the multicultural population of Kibyra ( present-day Gölhisar ) in south-west Anatolia by the descendants of the Lydian colonists who had founded the city.

The famous Lydian king Croesus succeeded his father Alyattes in around 560 BC and set about conquering the other Greek city states of Asia Minor.

It was later called " on the Meander " to distinguish it from the nearby Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum.

Straton of Sardis ( maybe better known under his Latin name Strato ) was a Greek poet and anthologist from the Lydian city of Sardis.

By first claiming that references to mythological Tartarus by Plato were in fact meant to identify a Lydian king by the name of Tantalus, he goes on to identify Atlantis with a hypothetical lost temple city called Tantalis, corresponding to modern-day Manisa in Turkey.