Lampsacus

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Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.

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instanceOf ancient Greek city
ancientNameInGreek Λάμψακος
associatedWithPhilosophicalSchool Epicureanism
Peripatetic school
colonizedFrom Miletus
Phocaea
country Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
economicActivity maritime trade
viticulture
famousResident Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
linked to: Anaxagoras

Chrysippus of Lampsacus
linked to: Chrysippus of Soli

Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder)
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger)
Strato of Lampsacus
foundedBy Greek colonists
hasCitizenshipStatus free city under Roman rule
hasType polis
historicalPeriod Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Roman period
knownFor culture
philosophy
wine production
worship of Priapus
languageSpoken Ancient Greek
locatedIn Asia Minor
Mysia
locatedInPresentDay Turkey
locatedNear Gallipoli peninsula
linked to: Gallipoli Peninsula
locatedOn eastern shore of the Hellespont
mentionedBy Herodotus
Pliny the Elder
Strabo
Thucydides
modernNearbySettlement Lapseki
partOf Achaemenid Empire
Delian League
Hellenistic world
linked to: Hellenistic period
region Troad (broad cultural region)
linked to: Troad
religiousCult Greek polytheism
cult of Priapus
linked to: Priapus
situatedOnWaterBody Dardanelles
strategicImportance control of Hellespontine sea route
underControlOf Alexander the Great
Lysimachus
Pergamon
Persian satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia
Roman Empire
Roman Republic

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