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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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418 XI. APAMEIA.

language; the father is pure Lydian, Atys; the son is the grecized
Lydian Pythios ; and the family doubtless was characterized by
a double share of commercial skill, Lydian trading instinct and Greek
inventiveness and boldness.

§ 13. Kelainai under the Persians. When Asia Minor formed
part of the Persian Empire, the central importance of Kelainai was
recognized more and more as time progressed. It became the principal
royal seat in Phrygia and a residence of the satraps l. Xerxes passed
through the city on his expedition against Greece ; and on his return
seems to have resided for some time in it. He built a palace at
the source of the Marsyas, probably on the grassy slope north of the
springs. The acropolis on the high bill which overhung the palace
and the Marsyas-springs was also built by him2.

Kelainai was apparently a favomite residence of Cyrus the younger,
when he was sent by his father Darius Nothus in 407 to govern
Western and Central Asia Minor; he built (or at least used) a palace
at the source of the Maeander, and he had a large park round the
palace, including a large extent of country, hillside and plain, full of
wild animals, and extending some distance down the course of the
Maeander before it reached the city. Cyrus made Kelainai the
gathering-place for his forces in 401 ; he halted there thirty clays till
his forces were consolidated; and held his first review in the park,
of course in the lower ground.

After Cyrus's departure Kelainai was recovered by Tissaphernes,
the representative of the Great King; and there he was beheaded
by Tithraustes in 396, after he had been taken prisoner in Colossai3.
We do not again hear of it till Alexander marched north from Pam-
phylia and laid siege to it4. The citadel was garrisoned by 1000
Carian and 100 Greek mercenaries; and it was so strong that, instead
of assaulting it, Alexander made an arrangement whereby the garrison
should surrender if not relieved within sixty days.

The hill on which the acropolis stands is steep in most of its circuit,
and rises even precipitously above the springs of the Marsyas ; but on
the side opposite the Marsyas it is connected by a neck of land with
the mountains to the east. Arrian's description5 '■ precipitous on all

1 Ca$ut Phrygiae Livy XXXVIII 15. 4 It is not mentioned by our scanty

2 There was doubtless an older forti- authorities during the great revolt of
fication on the citadel; but Xerxes built the western satraps 368-58, on which
the later fortress (as Haase says p. 257). see Judeich Kleinas. Stud. pp. 193 ff.

3 Polyaen. VII 16 (less fully Diod. D aKpa iravry anoTOfjios Andb. I 29: cp.
XIV 80, Xen. Hell. Ill 4, 25). Q. Curtius III 1.
 
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