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Notes upon a Visit to Celaenae-Apamea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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From Herodotus to John Cinnamus, almost every chronicler who has had occasion to mention Celaenae-Apamea, has paused in his narrative to remark the natural features of the place, and make a passing reference to its famous legend; it is the best described site in Phrygia, and among the most remarkable whether by reason of legend, history, or natural position. Here were localised the myths of Lityerses, and of Marsyas: here, according to the Sibyl, and probably to yet earlier tradition, the Ark of Noah first touched ground, and the coins of three emperors and a little ruined church on the summit of the Acropolis still commemorate this strange belief: the most important half-way station in western Asia Minor, it was the halting place of Xerxes, of the younger Cyrus, of Alexander the Great, of the Consul Manlius, of Cicero as pro-consul, of Manuel Comnenus, and many others, among whom in all probability was St. Paul. It was the capital of Phrygia, the chosen seat of the Great King, and the gate through which the traffic between the coast and Caesarea used to pass, and still passes; and when the Ottoman Railway Company complete their projected line, it may be once again second only to Smyrna as an emporium of trade.
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page 343 note 1 Severus, Macrinus, and Philip.
page 343 note 2 Abhandlung d. Akad. der Wissenschaften in Berlin, 1875.
page 344 note 1 Ovid, Metam.
page 344 note 2 Curt. III. 1.
page 344 note 3 vii. 26.
page 344 note 4 Curt. loc. cit.
page 344 note 5 ap. Athen. Deipn. 8.
page 344 note 6 vii. 26.
page 344 note 7 Exped. Cyri, I. 2. §§7. 8.
page 344 note 8 xxxviii. c. 13.
page 344 note 9 N. H. V. 29.
page 344 note 10 pp. 835, 6.
page 344 note 11 Hist. Alex. III. 1.
page 344 note 12 Anab. Alex. I. 29.
page 344 note 13 ap. Pliny.
page 345 note 1 Dissert. viii. 8.
page 345 note 2 vi. p. 115.
page 345 note 3 ii. 9.
page 345 note 4 xxxv. 14, p. 496.
page 345 note 5 Strabo, loc. cit.
page 345 note 6 Indeed Arundell supposed it to be the Maeander, apparently for this reason.
page 348 note 1 This lowest spring (whose name seems never to have been certainly fixed) might often be loosely regarded as the Maeander itself, and so Xenophon's informant, probably a native peasant, has led him into a trifling error.
page 349 note 1 I have a photograph of the citadel, which, though not very satisfactory, shows well enough the character of the hill: it is at the service of any one who is interested in the topography of this site, as is also, a (somewhat under-exposed) view of the central spring, which I suppose to be the original Marsyas: above the spring will be noticed the hole which Arundell saw, and whence he suggests that the water originally emerged: this is very possible in a limestone country, and if so, Herodotus' καταῤῥήκτης is appropriate and Cinnamus' description not so much exaggerated after all.