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252 VIII. VALLEY OF THE KAZANES AND INDOS.
various strata of colonists in the progress of history. His opinion
is fully confirmed by the local inscriptions, which show that in spite
of the later colonists, the population remained at bottom Pisidian.
The gods who protect the graves, the gods from whom, the people
come and to whom they return at death, are the old ' Pisidian Gods.'
The personal names corroborate the inference that naturally arises
from this fact: many are non-Greek, and among them occurs Pisidcs
(BCH 1889 p. 342. See also inscr. 91-5). If the Kazanes valley was
fundamentally Pisidian, much more was the population of the Indos
valley strictly Pisidian and not Phrygian.
§ 2. Thkmisonion. The name is derived from the personal name
Themison, which is Greek, not Anatolian. The city, then, is a Greek
colony founded on the road from Pamphylia to the Lycos and Hermos
valleys; and Droysen has rightly seen that the name is derived from
Themison, the powerful favourite of Antiochus II (261-48)l. The
earliest fact recorded of it is the flight of its inhabitants before an
invasion of the Gauls; but as the city was not founded at the time
of the earliest Gaulish invasions under Antiochus I, we must assign
the event to the raids between 246 and 230 (if it be not a mere late
legend, as we shall see some reason to suspect).
Themisonion, then, was founded by Antiochus II; and we may
safely attribute the foundation to the latest years of his reign. It
presupposes the deification of Themison as Herakles ; and that in its
turn presupposes the deification of Antiochus, which was voted by
the Milesians in 251 2.
M. Waddington was the first to show what was the approximate
situation of Themisonion and Eriza. Correcting his argument in some
details, I may repeat its main scope. Manlius on his march from the
Maeander valley towards Pamphylia, passed by Antiocheia, Gordiou-
teichos, and Tabai. On the third day from Tabai, he arrived at the
the river Kazanes 3; on the following day he carried by assault the
city Eriza; and on the day after he reached a fort Thabusion, over-
hanging the river Indos and not far distant from Cibyra. Coins of
Themisonion mention the river KAZAN HZ. Now the course of the
mentions Tabai as a Pisidian city p. 570, plain, with a tumulus (Kara-Eyuk,
though on p. 576 he gives it as Phrygian, Black-Mound) as citadel. Peltai occu-
while on p. 629 it is mixed Phrygian pied a similar situation.
and Pisidian. 2 Babelon 1. c.
1 Droysen, Gesch. d. Hellenism. II p. 3 MSS read chaum amnem, cahum
713; cp. Babelon Rois de Si/rie p. lxi. amnem, causamenem, casuannem, casum
Its situation is of the Seleucid type amnem, casuamenem : Waddington
(Hist. Geogr. p. 85), being in the open Mel. de Numism. I p. 110.
various strata of colonists in the progress of history. His opinion
is fully confirmed by the local inscriptions, which show that in spite
of the later colonists, the population remained at bottom Pisidian.
The gods who protect the graves, the gods from whom, the people
come and to whom they return at death, are the old ' Pisidian Gods.'
The personal names corroborate the inference that naturally arises
from this fact: many are non-Greek, and among them occurs Pisidcs
(BCH 1889 p. 342. See also inscr. 91-5). If the Kazanes valley was
fundamentally Pisidian, much more was the population of the Indos
valley strictly Pisidian and not Phrygian.
§ 2. Thkmisonion. The name is derived from the personal name
Themison, which is Greek, not Anatolian. The city, then, is a Greek
colony founded on the road from Pamphylia to the Lycos and Hermos
valleys; and Droysen has rightly seen that the name is derived from
Themison, the powerful favourite of Antiochus II (261-48)l. The
earliest fact recorded of it is the flight of its inhabitants before an
invasion of the Gauls; but as the city was not founded at the time
of the earliest Gaulish invasions under Antiochus I, we must assign
the event to the raids between 246 and 230 (if it be not a mere late
legend, as we shall see some reason to suspect).
Themisonion, then, was founded by Antiochus II; and we may
safely attribute the foundation to the latest years of his reign. It
presupposes the deification of Themison as Herakles ; and that in its
turn presupposes the deification of Antiochus, which was voted by
the Milesians in 251 2.
M. Waddington was the first to show what was the approximate
situation of Themisonion and Eriza. Correcting his argument in some
details, I may repeat its main scope. Manlius on his march from the
Maeander valley towards Pamphylia, passed by Antiocheia, Gordiou-
teichos, and Tabai. On the third day from Tabai, he arrived at the
the river Kazanes 3; on the following day he carried by assault the
city Eriza; and on the day after he reached a fort Thabusion, over-
hanging the river Indos and not far distant from Cibyra. Coins of
Themisonion mention the river KAZAN HZ. Now the course of the
mentions Tabai as a Pisidian city p. 570, plain, with a tumulus (Kara-Eyuk,
though on p. 576 he gives it as Phrygian, Black-Mound) as citadel. Peltai occu-
while on p. 629 it is mixed Phrygian pied a similar situation.
and Pisidian. 2 Babelon 1. c.
1 Droysen, Gesch. d. Hellenism. II p. 3 MSS read chaum amnem, cahum
713; cp. Babelon Rois de Si/rie p. lxi. amnem, causamenem, casuannem, casum
Its situation is of the Seleucid type amnem, casuamenem : Waddington
(Hist. Geogr. p. 85), being in the open Mel. de Numism. I p. 110.