Halicarnasse
Halicarnasse (in Greek old Ἁλικαρνασσός / Halikarnassós ), today Bodrum , is an old town of Asia Mineure on the Aegean Sea, in the old province of Carie, currently in the south-west of the Turkey.
The city is founded by the Doriens, probably of Trézène and Argos. It forms then part of Hexapole dorienne, but is driven out by it after one of its nationals named Agasiklès had carried at his place the tripod of Airain gained with the plays of Apollon Triopien instead of devoting it to the god (Hér., I, 144).
Halicarnasse then becomes a small kingdom, directed initially by the Tyran Lygdamis, then by his/her daughter Artémise I {{Re}}. She is finally the capital of the Satrapie Perse of Carie, under the orders of Mausole.
This city sheltered one of the seven wonders of the world: the Mausoleum, monumental tomb of the king Mausole, set up by his/her sister and marries Artémise II. It is also the birthplace of Hérodote and the fatherland of the Naïade Salmacis which made wish be plain with Hermaphrodite according to the Metamorphoses of Ovide.
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