Magnesia Ad Meander

Magnesia ad Meander (Grc)
Heracles fighting the Amazons , detail from a Amazonomachy the frieze of the Temple of Artemis Leucophryne (II centuryBC.) ( Louvre Museum )
Location
Country	Turkey
Province	Aydn
District	Germencik
Village	Tekin
Region of Antiquity	Ionia
Contact	37 51 '10 "North 27 31 '38 "East / 37.852662, 27.52724
Magnesia ad Meander

Magnesia is an archaeological site in Turkey and the Greek city of Ionia founded around 530 BC. AD near Pergamum. Aristotle . They provide housing foreigners, salt, oil, vinegar, light, beds, carpets and tables. "
The site is near the village of the district Tekin Germencik the province of Aydn on the edge of the road D525.

Occupied by the Persians in the ^fourth century BC. AD , it was refounded on another site, on the river Meander , in a place called leucophrys (literally White Eyebrow), around a shrine to the goddess Artemis , twin sister of Apollo . The initial situation of the city is unknown, but presumably it is on the banks of the Meander .

His plan hippodamen and several monuments were designed by architect and urban planner Hermogenes. Three excavations were conducted there in the nineteenth ^century to the museums of Istanbul , of Berlin and the Louvre. Its large agora paved 26,000 square meters surrounded by porticos modeled Priene. This is currently on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The excavations were taken .

Ignatius of Antioch refers to the city in the letter to Magnesians.

Religious buildings

The high altar

It is an altar-shaped feet with the model goes up to the Hellenistic period , as at Pergamum

The temple of Zeus Sosipolis

Built by Hermogenes in the early ^second century BC. AD is a temple of Ionic built after a victory over the city Miletus. Open to the west, this temple prostylos tetrastyle (4 columns in front), has a narthex (or vestibule) and opisthodomos the same size.

The Temple of Artemis Leucophryne

It is a temple pseudodiptre eight by fifteen columns in the same proportions as before. It features an open pediment with three bays to alleviate the quadrangular structure. Its frieze, a Amazonomachy is one of the best preserved ancient times.

The buildings of the Roman period

The theater is 500 m south west of the site at the roadside. Between the temple of Artemis and the theater is an odeon , stadium of 25,000 seats and another unfinished theater. There is also a gymnasium on the model of that of Miletus and baths. A Byzantine basilica has not yet been released and the bulwark of the same period surrounding the temple of Artemis .

Building the Muslim period

The only building from the period is a Muslim mosque in ruins dating from the ^fifteenth century. These ruins are in the area along the road .

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