Klazomenai was an antique city in Ionien (small Asia). The city is to the today's city Izmir, the antique Smyrna because of the north side of the Isthmus of Teos, approximately 36 kilometers west, with the place Urla (Turkey).

Them became 654 v. Chr. on the basis of Kolophon of Ioniern based. In 5. Century v. Chr. the place was shifted to the better protection on one the coast pre-aged island. A mentioned after the Mimas separated the city from Erythrai. Klazomenai was the place of birth of the Vorsokratikers Anaxagoras (499-428 v. Chr.), which admits in particular by its work over nature became.

Excavations promoted among other things attische ceramic(s) and the so-called Kore of Klazomenai, the Torso of a female statue, to day.

Literature

• Helmut Engelmann: The inscriptions of Erythrai and Klazomenai. 2 Bde. Having ELT, Bonn 1972-73 (inscriptions of Greek cities from small Asia, 1-2), ISBN 3-7749-1164-9
• Aliki Moustaka among other things (Hrsg.): Klazomenai, Teos and Abdera: metropoleis and colony. Proceedings OF the internationally symposium hero RK the Archaeological museum OF Abdera, 20-21 October 2001. Thessaloniki 2004. ISBN 960-12-1313-9.

Related links

• Princeton Encyclopedia OF Classical Sites
• Homepage of the excavation

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