…Lampsacus, which has become famous for its …
Years: 549BCE - 538BCE
…Lampsacus, which has become famous for its wines, and has remained the chief seat of the worship of Priapus, a god of procreation and fertility.
Originally known as Pityusa or Pityussa, Lampsacus, strategically located on the eastern side of the Hellespont in the northern Troad, was colonized from Phocaea and Miletus.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Pelasgians
- Lydia, Kingdom of
- Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Greece, classical
- Phocaea (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Achaemenid Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Persian Conquests of 559-509 BCE
