Mycale (also Mycǎlé, Mukalê, Mykale and Mycali; called Samsun Daği in modern Turkey) is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and opposite the island of Samos.¹ It forms a ridge, terminating in the Trogilium promontory. Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... The Maeander River is the classical Latin name for the Büyük Menderes River in southwestern Turkey. ... Samos (Greek Σάμος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an island in southeastern Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Turkey. ...

Panionium

On the north side of the mountan, near the ancient Ionian city of Priene was located, from circa 800 BC, the Panionium,² a sanctuary and of Poseidon Heliconius, the meeting place of the Ionian League, and the site of the religious festival and games (panegyris) called the Panionia.³ Ionia (Greek Ιωνία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (now in Turkey) on the Aegean Sea. ... Priene (mod. ... Centuries: 10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC Decades: 850s BC 840s BC 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC - 800s BC - 790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC Events and Trends 804 BC - Hadad-nirari IV of Assyria conquers Damascus. ... The Panionium (also Panionion) was, from about 800 BC, an Ionian sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios and the meeting place of the Ionian League,1 located in Turkey at the peninsula of Mt. ... Andrea Doria as Neptune by Agnolo Bronzino: a potent allegory of Genoas hegemony in the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... The Ionian League (also called the Panionic League) was a religious and cultural (as opposed to a political or military) confederacy comprised of 12 Ionian cities, formed as early as 800 BC. The cities were, (from south to north), Miletus, its principal city, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos... A Panegyris, also spelt Panegyry (Greek - gathering), is an Ancient Greek religious assembly. ...

Battle of Mycale

In 479 BC, Mycale was the site of one of the two major battles that ended the Persian invasion of Greece, during the Greco-Persian Wars (see battle of Mycale). Under the leadership of the Spartan Leotychides, the Greek fleet defeated the Persian fleet and army.⁴ According to Herodotus, the battle occurred the same day as the Greek victory at Plataea.⁵ 479 pr. ... Persian may refer to more than one article: the Western name for Iranian (see Iran/Persia naming controversy) Persian, an Iranian language the Persians, an ethnic group a Persian, a breed of cat Persian, a Pokémon character Etymology English Persian < Old English, < Latin *Persianus, < Latin Persia, < ancient Greek Persis... The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. // Origins Persian Empire in 500 BC At the end of the 6th century BC, Darius the Great ruled over an... The Battle of Mycale was one of the two major battles that ended the Persian Wars and returned freedom to the Greek city-states. ... Sparta (Greek Σπάρτη) was a city in ancient Greece, whose territory included, in Classical times, all Laconia and Messenia, and which was the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. ... Leotychidas [Leotychides] (c. ... Persian may refer to more than one article: the Western name for Iranian (see Iran/Persia naming controversy) Persian, an Iranian language the Persians, an ethnic group a Persian, a breed of cat Persian, a Pokémon character Etymology English Persian < Old English, < Latin *Persianus, < Latin Persia, < ancient Greek Persis... Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡροδοτος, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. ... The Battle of Plataea took place in 479 BC between an alliance of Greek city-states Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Megara, and others against the Persians. ...

References

• Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920; ISBN 0674991338 
• Pausanias, Description of Greece, (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. H. S. Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918) ; Vol 2, Books III–V, ISBN 0674992075; Vol 3, Books VI–VIII.21, ISBN 0674993004.
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography "Mycale" London (1854)
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910. 

Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡροδοτος, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. ... The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. ... Alfred Denis Godley (1856--1925) was a classical scholar and author of humorous poems. ... Pausanias was Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ... The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which present important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each... Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. ... Bust of Thucydides Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC–circa 400 BC, Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídês) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens. ... History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the battles, conflicts, and politics of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens), written by an Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides. ...

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