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Kaunos (Carian: Kbid;[1] Lycian: Khbide;[1] Ancient Greek: Καῦνος; Latin: Caunus)
was a city of ancient Caria and in Anatolia, a few km west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey.
Ancient timesThe city was located on the border between Caria and Lycia and especially during the later Roman times, it was co...mmonly included among the territories of the latter, although its fortifications were built by Mausolus. As such, in earlier times, Kaunos was one of the principal ports of southern Caria.Kaunos was said to have been founded by Kaunos, son of Miletos and Kyane.On the other hand, because of their differing customs and language, Herodotus distinguished between the Kaunians on the one hand, and the Carians and the Lycians on the other.In its position opposite Rhodes, it became in the 2nd century BC part of the jurisdiction of Rhodes known as Peraea, Peræa Rhodiorum (Latin form) "the Rhodian Shore".The city's acropolis was called Imbros and it lay at the foot of the Mount Tarbelos (present-day "Mount Ölemez"). It was renowned for its unhealthy surroundings, consisting of marshlands as today. It exported, chiefly to Rome, highly prized figs, as well salt and resin.Kaunos was the home of the painter Protogenes. In the 3rd century BC, the city was a member of the Chrysaorian League.The ruins of the city are near Dalyan, on the right bank of the ancient Kalbis. Among them are a theatre, a large rectangular building that may have been a temple, others of uncertain description, a Byzantine church, and rock-hewn tombs.
Christian cityKaunos was Christianized early, and bishops are known beginning from the 4th century. Four bishops are mentioned by Lequien (I, 981): Basil, who attended the Council of Seleucia in 359; Antipater, who attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451; Nicolaus, who subscribed the letter to Emperor Leo in 458; and Stephanus, who attended the Council of Nicaea in 787. The Synecdemus of Hierocles and most Notitiae Episcopatuum, as late as the 12th or 13th century, place it in Lycia, as a suffragan of Myra.
Kaunos remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Cauniensis
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Protogenes (fl. 4th century BC) was born in Caunus, on the coast of Caria.
Protogenes (fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek painter, a contemporary rival of Apelles.
As with the other famous ancient Greek painters, none of his work has survived, and it is known only from literary references and (brief) descriptions....
He was born in Caunus,
on the coast of Caria, but resided in Rhodes during the latter half of the 4th century B.C. He was celebrated for the minute and laborious finish which he bestowed on his pictures, both in drawing and in color. Apelles, his great rival, standing astonished in presence of one of these works, could only console himself by saying that it was wanting in charm.
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Zeno of Caunus.
Zeno (or Zenon, Greek: Ζήνων; 3rd century BC), son of Agreophon, was a native of the Greek town of Caunus in lower Asia Minor.
He moved to Philadelphia in Egypt and became a private secretary to Apollonius, the finance minister to Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes during the 3rd century B...C.
A cache of over 2,000 Greek and Demotic letters and documents written on papyri by Zeno were discovered in the 1900s and are referred to as the Zenon Archive or Zenon Papyri.
A substantial part of the Zenon Papyri are now online and grammatically tagged at the Perseus Project hosted at Tufts University.
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Lyrcus became king of Caunus.
Years later Basilus, the son of Lyrcus and Hemithea, came to the land of Caunus.
Lyrcus recognized him as his son, and made him ruler over his peoples.
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Lycrus is the name of two Greek figures, one a figure in a first-century BC Romance by Parthenius of Nicaea, the other the eponymous legendary founder of Lyrceia. Stories of both located Lycrus near Argos; their individual lives intertwine... with other historical and mythological figures.
Lyrcus as related by Parthenius
The story of Lyrcus is related by Parthenius of Nicaea in his Erotica Pathemata ("Of the Sorrows of Love").
In the narrative, Io, daughter of Inachus, king in Argos, was captured by brigands. Her father Inachus sent several men to search for her. One of these was Lyrcus the son of Phoroneus, who searched land and sea without finding the girl, and finally quit the quest: but he was too afraid of Inachus to return to Argos without her, and went instead to Caunus in Caria, where he married the daughter of King Aegialus, Hilebia, who fell in love with Lyrcus as soon as she saw him and persuaded her father to betroth them. Aegialus gave Lyrcus as dowry a good share of the realm and of the rest of the regal attributes, and accepted him as his son-in-law.

Years passed and Lyrcus and his wife had no children. Lyrcus made a journey to the oracle at Didyma to ask how he might obtain offspring. The answer was, that he would beget a child with the first woman whom he bedded after leaving the shrine. Happily he hurried towards home and wife, but on the journey, when he arrived at Bybastus (or Bubastos), he was entertained by Staphylus, who welcomed Lyrcus in a friendly manner and enticed him to much drinking of wine. When Lyrcus had his senses dulled with wine, Staphylus united Lyrcus with Staphylus's own daughter Hemithea, having heard the prediction of the oracle and desiring to have descendants born to Hemithea.

Bitter strife arose between Rhoeo and Hemithea, the two daughters of Staphylus, as to which should have Lyrcus, for a great desire for him had arisen in both of them. The next morning Lyrcus discovered the trap that his host had laid for him. When Lyrcus saw Hemithea by his side: he was exceedingly angry. He upbraided Staphylus violently for his conduct. Finally seeing that there was nothing to be done, Lyrcus took off his belt and gave it to the girl, telling her to keep it until their future child had come of age. Then the child would possess a token by which he might be recognized, if he should ever come to his father at Caunus. Lyrcus sailed away home.

When King Aegialus heard the whole story about the oracle and about Hemithea he banished Lyrcus. There was then a war of great length between Lyrcus and Aegialus: Hilebia was on the side of Lyrcus, for she refused to repudiate her husband. Lyrcus became king of Caunus. Years later Basilus, the son of Lyrcus and Hemithea, came to the land of Caunus. Lyrcus recognized him as his son, and made him ruler over his peoples.

City of Lyrceia
In Pausanias' Description of Greece the city of Lyrceia lies on one of the two roads which proceeded from the gate of Deiras. The northern road leads to Lyrceia and Orneae. The city was formerly called Lynceia but when Lyrcus the illegitimate son of Abas got possession of the place it was renamed Lyrceia. Later the town fell in ruins with nothing remaining except the statue of Lyrcus upon a pillar. The distance from Argos to Lyrceia is about sixty stades and the distance from Lyrceia to Orneae is the same, with Lyrceia situated between the two cities on the road named Climax. Homer in the Catalogue makes no mention of the city Lyrcea because at the time of the Greek expedition against Troy it already lay deserted. Lyrcus arrived here after fleeing when all his other brothers the sons of Aegyptus were murdered by the daughters of Danaus on their wedding night. He gave intelligence of his safe arrival to his faithful wife Hypermnestra by holding up a torch and she in like manner informed him of her safety by raising a torch from Larissa the citadel of Argos. In some versions of this story Lyrcus is known as Lynceus.

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Kaunos

Kaunos or Caunus (Lycian: Khbide; also Peraea, Latin: Peræa Rhodiorum) is an ancient city of Caria, Anatolia, currently a few km west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey. Kaunos was said to have been founded by Kaunos, son of Miletos and Kyane, on the southern coast of Caria, opposite Rhodes, and... was known as Rhodian Peraea, at the foot of Mount Tarbelos. Its acropolis was called Imbros. It exported, chiefly to Rome, highly prized figs. It was the home of the painter Protogenes. As Peræa Rhodiorum, it was a member of the Chrysaorian League.
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Kaunos Kaunos war eine antike Stadt im Südosten der Landschaft Karien in Kleinasien (in der Nähe des jetzigen Orts Dalyan in der Türkei). Sie lag ursprünglich am Meer, durch Verlagerung der Küste jetzt 8 km vom Meer entfernt im Delta des Köycegiz-Flusses. Kaunos gehörte zeitweilig zum Attischen Seebund und zum Festlandbesitz der nahegelegenen Insel Rhodos. Der Ort galt in der Antike als reich, aber auf Grund der Lage im sumpfigen Flussdelta, in dem sich Krankheiterreger leicht vermehren können, als ungesund. Er war bekannt durch seine weithin exportierten getrockneten Feigen.

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Lycian: Khbide; Ancient Greek: Polytonic|Καῦνος; Latin: Caunus)
was a city of ancient Caria, Anatolia, a few km west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey.
Kaunos was said to have been founded by Kaunos, son of Miletos and Kyane, on the southern coast of Caria, opposite Rhodes.
It was in a district later... under the jurisdiction of Rhodes known as Peraea,
Peræa Rhodiorum (Latin form) "the Rhodian Shore", at the foot of Mount Tarbelos.
Its acropolis was called "Imbros".
It exported, chiefly to Rome, highly prized figs.
It was the home of the painter Protogenes.
It was a member of the Chrysaorian League. The ruins of the city are near Dalyan, on the right bank of the ancient Kalbis. Among them are a theatre, a large rectangular building that may have been a temple, others of uncertain description, a Byzantine church, and rock-hewn tombs.

Christian city .
Kaunos was Christianized early, and bishops are known beginning from the 4th century. Four bishops are mentioned by Lequien (I, 981): Basil, who attended the Council of Seleucia in 359; Antipater, who attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451; Nicolaus, who subscribed the letter to Emperor Leo in 458; and Stephanus, who attended the Council of Nicaea in 787. The "Synecdemus" of Hierocles and most "Notitiae Episcopatuum", as late as the 12th or 13th century, place it in Lycia, as a suffragan of Myra.
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