Mycale
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Mycale also Mykale, called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the Greek isl
The flanks of Mycale behind Priene
Mount Mycale seen from the island of Samos, across the Mycale Strait.
Cypress in maquis
Panionium
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The Panionium was an Ionian sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios and the meeting place of the Ionian League. It was on the peninsula of Mt. Mycale, about 100 kilometres south of Smyrna—now İzmir
Mycale
…language, now lost except for a few dozen words. The Ionians leagued together to defeat it and continued the league, building a capital they called Panionium, "of all the Ionians" next to the former Carium. It rose to prominence while the Ionian confederacy was sovereign, became a memory when Ionia was…
Poseidon's head (identified by an inscription), detail from a scene representing Athena and Poseidon. Side B from an Attic black-figure neck-amphora, c. 550–530 BC. From Vulci. Signed by the Amasis Painter.
Theatre near Güzelçamlı