Lampsakos (Greek Latin Lampsacus, also Lampsacum, today Lapseki) was an antique Greek port in Mysien, at the east coast of the Hellespont.

History

Those as Pityusa or Pityussa well-known city was originally created first of the Phokaiern. Into the early period fall border conflicts with the milesischen neighbours and the thrakischen Miltiades, that, as Herodot reports, led war against the Lampsakener. These could lure and take it prisoner however into an ambush and released it only after a threat by Kroisos, its allied one, again.

In 6. and 5. Century v. Chr. became Lampsakos successively from the Lydiern, which Persern, Athens and Sparta conquer. Artaxerxes handed Lampsakos to the supreme command over of the Themistokles under the edition that the city supplies the Persian king of time life with its famous wine. Although the city recognized the Persian rule, it was governed nevertheless by one the their, Hippokles, whose son Aeantides married a daughter of the Peisistratos. Their grave was at times of the Thukydides an object of interest.

Lampsakos became after the battle of Mykale part of the Delisch Atti sea-federation and paid an annual tribute of twelve talents, which speaks for the unusual wealth of the city. Lampsakos placed in the 3. Century v. Chr. Gold coins ago; also this was only possible for the richest cities of the region. The alliance with Athens broke during the Sicily expedition, a rebellion became in the year 411 v. Chr. but depressed by force. 405 v. Chr. if the city was conquered by Lysandros for Sparta, the Perser fell however a little later. 362 v. Chr. became for a while autonomous Lampsakos. The first good relations with Athens cooled down rapidly; already 355 v. Chr. the city was conquered by the Athenern under Chares. 334 v. Chr. belonged Lampsakos to numerous conquests Alexanders of the large one.

196 v. Chr. defended Rome the city against Antiochos III.; in the consequence Lampsakos became an important allying of the realm. Cicero and Strabon testify the continuous prosperity of the city also under Roman upper rule; however she is to have suffered according to Cicero under Verres (80 v. Chr.).

Lampsakos was also admits for the cult the Priapos, which was to have been born here.

Of the original Lampsakos in the proximity of the modern reestablishment Lapseki, in which today's Turkish province are, today only the ruins of the Stadtmauer and the Nekropole receives.

Prominent inhabitants

Sons and daughters of the city

• Adimantos of Lampsokos
• Anaximenes of Lampsakos
• Charon of Lampsakos
• Metrodoros of Lampsakos, philosopher and friend of the Epikur
• Xenophon of Lampsakos, geographer
• Straton of Lampsakos, nature philosopher

Other one

• Anaxagoras spent its last Lebensjahre in banishing in Lampsakos.
• Epikur lived probably for a while here and became acquainted with Metrodoros.

Literature

• Peter Frisch: The inscriptions of Lampsakos. Having ELT, Bonn 1978 (inscriptions of Greek cities from small Asia, 6), ISBN 3-7749-1443-5

Related links

• Princeton Encyclopedia OF Classical Sites

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