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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAMPSACUS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 136 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAMPSACUS , an ancient Greek colony in Mysia,
Asia
 
Minor
 , known as Pityusa or Pityussa before its colonization by Ionian Greeks from
Phocaea
  and Miletus, was situated on the Hellespont, opposite Callipolis (Gallipoli) in Thrace. It possessed a good harbour; and the neighbourhood was famous for its wine, so that, having fallen into the hands of the Persians during the Ionian revolt, it was assigned by Artaxerxes I. to Themistocles to provide him with wine, as Percote did with meat and
Magnesia
  with bread. After the battle of Mycale (479 B.C.), Lampsacus joined the Athenians, but, having revolted from them in 411, was reduced by force. It was defended in 196 B.C. against Antiochus the
Great
  of Syria, after which its inhabitants were received as allies of Rome. Lampsacus was the
chief
  seat of the
worship
  of
Priapus
 , a
gross
  nature-god closely connected with the culture of the vine. The ancient name is preserved in that of the modern
village
  of Lapsaki, but the Greek town possibly lay at Chardak immediately opposite Gallipoli.
See A. L. Castellan, Lettres sur la Moree, l'Hellespont, &c. (Paris, 182o) ; Choiseul Gouffier, Voyage pittoresque clans l'empire ottoman (1842).


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