In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

In the 2nd or 1st century BC, Eudoxus of Cyzicus was the first Greek to cross the Indian Ocean.

The monsoon wind system of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Greek navigator Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 BC.

Miletus especially was at an early period one of the most important commercial cities of Greece ; and in its turn became the parent of numerous other colonies, which extended all around the shores of the Euxine Sea and the Propontis from Abydus and Cyzicus to Trapezus and Panticapaeum.

Thrasybulus was again in command of a squadron of the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Cyzicus, a stunning Athenian victory.

Coins are issued in his name in Cyzicus at some time before the end of 284, but it is impossible to know whether he was still in the public eye by that point.

On the recommendation of Eudoxius he was appointed bishop of Cyzicus in 360.

Cyzicus was a town of Mysia.

Cyzicus (, Kyzikos ;, Aydıncıḳ ) was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey.

During the Peloponnesian War ( 431-404 BC ) Cyzicus was subject to the Athenians and Lacedaemonians alternately.

Cyzicus was the leading city of Northern Mysia as far as Troas.

Cyzicus was captured temporarily by the Arabs in 675.

Gelasius, a historian of Arianism, who wrote about 475, was born at Cyzicus.

Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by Valerius Flaccus to the inhabitants of Cyzicus, whose town was believed to have been founded by Cyzicus, the son of Aeneas and Aenete.

Esope à la ville was written in alexandrine couplets and depicted a physically ugly Aesop acting as adviser to Learchus, governor of Cyzicus under King Croesus, and using his fables to solve romantic problems and quiet political unrest.

The definitive edition was made by Constantine Cephalas in the 10th century, who added a number of other collections: homoerotic verse collected by Straton of Sardis in the 2nd century AD ; a collection of Christian epigrams found in churches ; a collection of satirical and convivial epigrams collected by Diogenianus ; Christodorus ' description of statues in the Byzantine gymnasium of Zeuxippos ; and a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus.

Soon after his accession, Demophilus went to Cyzicus with Dorotheus, or Theodorus, of Heraclea to procure the election of an Arian bishop, which was left vacant since the banishment of Eunomius.

John was removed from office immediately after and banished to Cyzicus.

He was hostile to his new superior, Eusebius, Bishop of Cyzicus, and when Eusebius was murdered, the Cappadocian found himself accused of complicity in the crime.

In some rare circumstances, such towers were mounted on ships to assault the coastal wall of a city: at the siege of Cyzicus during the Third Mithridatic War, for example, towers were used in conjunction with more conventional siege weapons.

In Greek mythology, a storm on Propontis brought the Argonauts back to an island they had left, precipitating a battle where either Jason or Heracles killed King Cyzicus, who mistook them for his Pelasgian enemies.

Neanthes of Cyzicus and Phanias add two more, the city of Palaescepsis (" for clothes ") and the city of Percote with bedding and furniture for his house.

* Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Mauretania for harbouring the usurper Procopius.

Cyzicus is still a metropolitan title for the Greek Orthodox, the metropolitan residing at Artake ( Erdek ), a little port on the western shore of the peninsula.

The monuments of Cyzicus were used by the Byzantine emperor Justinian as a quarry for the building of his Saint Sophia cathedral, and were still exploited by the Ottomans.

These circumstances are secondary to the fact of Ixion's primordial act of murder ; it could be accounted for quite differently: in the Greek Anthology ( iii. 12 ), among a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus is an epigrammatic description of Ixion slaying Phorbas and Polymelos, who had slain his mother, Megara, the " great one ".

He also contributed troops, money and food to the city of Cyzicus for defense against the invading Gauls.

The Issedones were known to Greeks as early as the late seventh century BCE, for Stephanus Byzantinus reports that the poet Alcman mentioned " Essedones " and Herodotus reported that a legendary Greek of the same time, Aristeas son of Kaustrobios of Prokonnessos ( or Cyzicus ), had managed to penetrate the country of the Issedones and observe their customs first-hand.

Greenwell is noted for his work on the Grimes Graves along with his treatises on electrum coinage of Cyzicus.

The Byzantine monasteries furnish a long line of historians who were also monks: John Malalas, whose " hronographia " ( P. G., XCVII, 9-190 ) served as a model for Eastern chroniclers ; Georgius Syncellus, who wrote a " Selected Chronographia "; his friend and disciple Theophanes ( d. 817 ), Abbot of the " Great Field " near Cyzicus, the author of another " Chronographia " ( P. G., CVIII ); the Patriarch Nicephorus, who wrote ( 815-829 ) an historical " Breviarium " ( a Byzantine history ), and an " Abridged Chronographia " ( P. G., C, 879-991 ); George the Monk, whose Chronicle stops at A. D. 842 ( P. G.

Possibly named for the city of Cyzicus.

He besieged the Romans in Chalcedon ( opposite Byzantium ) and pressed westward along the south shores of the Sea of Marmara to attack Cyzicus.

The Cretan War begins between Philips ' Macedonians, the Aetolian League, several Cretan cities ( of which Olous and Hierapytna are the most important ) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later Attalus I of Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Athens and Knossos.

But the residents of Cyzicus would not testify against him.

Works that have not survived as well include: his de Apollinario et eius Haeresi and other polemics against Apollinarianism ; and a separate polemic against Eunomius of Cyzicus, professing to be a defense of Basil of Caesarea.

* Androsthenes of Cyzicus, 200 BC, accompanied King Antiochus III the Great to India.

* Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.

* Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the Battle of Cyzicus.

Of particular importance are the famous Arian ; Eunomius of Cyzicus ; Saint Dalmatius ; Proclus of Constantinople and Germanus of Auxerre, who became Patriarchs of Constantinople ; and Saint Emilian, a martyr in the eighth century.

Another Saint who came from Cyzicus is Saint Tryphaena of Cyzicus.

* Theophanes the Confessor, who began his formal religious life at the Polychronius Monastery, located near Cyzicus.

Ptolemy appointed Eudoxus of Cyzicus, who made two voyages from Egypt to India.

Sozomen reports her preventing a conference between Theodosius and Eunomius of Cyzicus who served as figurehead of Anomoeanism, a distinct sect of Arians.

Herodotus tells us that they paid particular honors to Aristeas, who was said to have appeared in their city 340 years after he had disappeared from Cyzicus.