Leucae (Ionia)

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Leucae (Greek: Λεῦκαι) or Leuce (Greek: Λεύκη) was a small town of ancient Ionia, in the neighbourhood of Phocaea. Leucae was situated, according to Pliny in promontorio quod insula fuit, or, "on an island promontory."[1] From Scylax we learn that it was a place with harbours. According to Diodorus, the Persian admiral Tachos founded this town on an eminence on the sea coast, in 352 BCE; but shortly after, when Tachos had died, the Clazomenians and Cymaeans quarrelled about its possession, and the former succeeded by a stratagem in making themselves masters of it.[2] At a later time Leucae became remarkable for the battle fought in its neighbourhood between the consul Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus and Aristonicus in 131 BCE.[3] Some have supposed this place to be identical with the Leuconium mentioned by Thucydides;[4] but this is impossible, as this latter place must be looked for in Chios. The site of the ancient Leucae is at , Izmir Province, Turkey, some distance from the coast.[5] Coins were minted at Leucae in the 3rd century BCE.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Plin. v. 31
  2. ^ Diodorus, xv. 18.
  3. ^ Strab. xiv. p. 646; Justin, xxxvi. 4.
  4. ^ Thuc. viii. 24
  5. ^ a b "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites". Retrieved December 17, 2014.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Leucae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

Literature[]

  • D. Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor (1950) p. 1035.
  • G. E. Bean, Aegean Turkey (1966) pp. 125–27.


Coordinates: 38°33′34″N 26°51′18″E / 38.55937°N 26.85488°E / 38.55937; 26.85488


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