Various traditions debate the founding of Halicarnassus …
Years: 909BCE - 898BCE
Various traditions debate the founding of Halicarnassus but agree in the main point as to its being a Dorian colony, and the figures on its coins, such as the head of Medusa, Athena and Poseidon, or the trident, support the statement that the mother cities were Troezen and Argos.
The inhabitants appear to have accepted as their legendary founder Anthes, mentioned by Strabo, and were proud of the title of Antheadae.
