Phocaea or Phokaia was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia in 600 BC, Emporion in 575 BC and Elea in 540 BC.
The theatre of Phocaea
Stater coin from Phocaea with Griffin head; Circa 580 BC[citation needed]
Coinage of Phokaia, Ionia, c. 478–387 BC. Possible portrait of Satrap Tissaphernes, with satrapal headress
Electrum coinage of Phocaea, 340–335 BC
The Battle of Lade was a naval battle which occurred during the Ionian Revolt, in 494 BC. It was fought between an alliance of the Ionian cities and the Persian Empire of Darius the Great, and resulte
Darius I of Persia, as imagined by a Greek painter, 4th century BC
Reconstructed model of a trireme, the type of ship in use by both the Greek and Persian forces