Gordus (Lydia)
Appearance
Gordos was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia (modern western Turkey). It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.[1][2][3]
The city achieved the full status of a polis under the Flavian emperors.[4]
It was the home to Appolophanes the physician,[5] and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagans[6] and Christians in the town.[7]
Three bishops of the town are known: Isidor attended Third Council of Constantinople, Neophytus attended the Second Council of Nicaea and Stephen attended the Photian Council of 870.
References
- ^ Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p209.
- ^ Gordos-Julia in Lydia, Trajan, Coins.
- ^ Coin of Julia Gordos under Antoninus Pius.
- ^ Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p210.
- ^ Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine (Routledge, 2012) p409.
- ^ H. Malay, Great Antiochose Basic Apollophanes A Adjusted To Zeus Around Gordos.
- ^ Peter Thonemann, Inscriptions from Hadrianopolis, Tieion, Iulia Gordos and Toriaion, P H I L I A - International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Volume 1 • 2015 p82-83.