Gordos (Lydia)

Julia Gordos among the cities of Lydia (ca. 50 AD)

Gordos was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia (modern western Turkey). It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.[1][2][3]

The city achieved the full status of a polis under the Flavian emperors.[4]

It was the home to Appolophanes the physician,[5] and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagans[6] and Christians in the town.[7]

Three bishops of the town are known: Isidor attended Third Council of Constantinople, Neophytus attended the Second Council of Nicaea and Stephen attended the Photian Council of 870.

References

  1. ↑ Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p209.
  2. ↑ Gordos-Julia in Lydia, Trajan, Coins.
  3. ↑ Coin of Julia Gordos under Antoninus Pius.
  4. ↑ Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p210.
  5. ↑ Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine (Routledge, 2012) p409.
  6. ↑ H. Malay, Great Antiochose Basic Apollophanes A Adjusted To Zeus Around Gordos.
  7. ↑ Peter Thonemann, Inscriptions from Hadrianopolis, Tieion, Iulia Gordos and Toriaion, P H I L I A - International Journal Of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Volume 1 • 2015 p82-83.
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