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Colophon from an Incunable | incunabulum of the Historiae Adversus Paganos by Paulus Orosius, one of the most copied books from the Medieval period. The assumed falling out of Paulus Orosius and Saint Augustine at the end of the former ’ s life does not seem to have had a negative effect on the distribution and impact of his Histories.
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Alyattes drove the Cimmerians ( see Scythia ) from Asia Minor, subdued the Carians, and took several Ionian cities ( including Smyrna, Colophon ).
These Asian cities were ( from south to north ) Miletus, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Erythrae, Clazomenae and Phocaea, together with Samos and Chios.
Smyrna, originally an Aeolic colony, was afterwards occupied by Ionians from Colophon, and became an Ionian city — an event which had taken place before the time of Herodotus.
Clazomenae and Phocaea were settled from Colophon.
Starting from the late 8th century BC, the Greeks established a settlement first at Siris, founded by fugitives from Colophon.
Mimnermus (, Mímnermos ) was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 630 – 600 BC.
A quote recorded by the geographer Strabo represents the earliest surviving account of the Ionian migration, celebrating the settlement of Colophon and Smyrna from Pylos,
* De Poetis Colophoniis (" On poets from Colophon ")
Colophon (; ) was a city in the region of Lydia in antiquity dating from about the turn of the first millennium-BC.
The term " colophony " for rosin comes from the term colophonia resina, that is, resin from the pine trees of Colophon, which was highly valued for the strings of musical instruments.
As Calchas and the other heroes on their way home from Troy came upon the seer Mopsus in Colophon, the two competed in their mantic qualities.
The distribution of the Ionic Greek dialect in historic times indicates early movement from the mainland of Greece to the Anatolian coast to such sites as Miletus, Ephesus, and Colophon, perhaps as early as 1000 BC, though the contemporaneous evidence is scanty.
The term " colophony " comes from colophonia resina or " resin from the pine trees of Colophon ," an ancient Ionic city.
Colophon was the birthplace of Homer in Ionia, and was famous for its rosin, a substance obtained from turpentine or the gummy exudate of some trees.
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Xenophanes of Colophon ( 570-470 BCE ), declared God to be the eternal unity, permeating the universe, and governing it by his thought.
There, he quickly captures Colophon and raids the Ionian countryside, but is defeated outside Ephesus by a combined Ephesian, Persian, and Syracusan force.
Colophon then went into decline and was eclipsed by neighbouring Ephesus and by the rising naval power of Ionia, Miletus.
Xenophanes of Colophon by Giannis Stamatellos )
* Xenophanes of Colophon by Giannis Stamatellos
Starting again in 1948, the name The New Colophon: A Book Collectors ' Quarterly was used by Philip Duschnes and the quarterly was entirely printed by the Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine, continuing publication until 1950 in a fourth and final format.
* Index, the Colophon, 1930 – 1935 ; with a history of the quarterly by John T. Winterich
This coin ( which was known to have been struck in Athens, Colophon, and several other cities ) is mentioned by Aristotle as the smallest silver coin.
by the Greek physician Nicander in Colophon.
Clarus ( Klaros ) in the territory of Colophon in the Ionian coast of Asia Minor was a much-revered, much-famed cult center described by Pausanias ( vii.
Apaturia () were Ancient Greek festivals held annually by all the Ionian towns, except Ephesus and Colophon.
Colophon and one
The disappearance of Smyrna for the next three hundred years might be the reason why Colophon was able to claim the poet as one of its own, yet Smyrna's own claim persisted and this suggests that its claim had the advantage of being true.
Nicander of Colophon has also left us two epics, one on remedies for poisons, the other on the bites of venomous beasts.
Colophon and books
* Colophon Page is a revue of modern and contemporary illustrated books and related works on paper.
Colophon and period
Hermesianax of Colophon was an Ancient Greek elegiac poet of the Hellenistic period, said to be a pupil of Philitas of Cos ; the dates of his life and work are all but lost, but Philitas is supposed to have been born c. 340.
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At the end of the 7th century BCE, Mimnermus of Colophon struck on the innovation of using the verse for erotic poetry.
After the death of Alexander the Great, Perdiccas expelled the Athenian settlers on Samos to Colophon, on the coast of what is now Turkey.
" Xenophanes of Colophon ( c. 500 BC ) thought that the Earth was flat, with its upper side touching the air, and the lower side extending without limit.
" The sacrifice of dogs to Hecate is attested for Thrace, Samothrace, Colophon, and Athens.
This can be compared to Pausanias ' report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.
: He also took Lesbos and Phocaea, then Colophon, and Smyrna, and Clazomenae, and Cyme ; and afterwards Aegialus and Tenos, the so-called Hundred Cities ; then, in order, Adramytium and Side ; then Endium, and Linaeum, and Colone.
His people sent him into exile to Calabria in Italy, and then to Colophon, in Asia Minor, where he died.
Colophon was already in the hands of Aeolians who had arrived via Crete in Mycenaean times.
About 700 BC Gyges, first Mermnad king of Lydia, invaded the territories of Smyrna and Miletus, and is said to have taken Colophon as his son Ardys did Priene.
Greek historian Theopompus, writing in the 4th century BCE, reported that " purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon Asia Minor.
According to a later tradition preserved in Antoninus Liberalis, Aëdon is instead the wife of Polytechnos, an artist of Colophon.
Colophon of Razi's Book of Medicine.
He distinguished himself at the siege of Thebes ; but he was held in particular veneration at the court of Amphilochus at Colophon on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, adjacent to Caria.
His court was located at Colophon in Ionia.
His tomb was shown near Colophon.
Mimnermus related that Andraemon was a native of Pylos and founder of Colophon.
Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.
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