Gordus (Lydia)
Gordus or Gordos (Ancient Greek: Γόρδος),[1] also known as Julia Gordus or Iulia Gordos, and possibly also known as Porotta,[2][3] was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia (modern western Turkey). It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.[4]
The city achieved the full status of a polis under the Flavian emperors.[5]
It was the home to Apollophanes the physician,[6] and there is epigraphical evidence of both pagans[7] and Christians in the town.[8]
Three bishops of the town are known: Isidor attended Third Council of Constantinople, Neophytus attended the Second Council of Nicaea and Stephen attended the Photian Council of 870. No longer the seat of a residential bishop, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[9]
Its site is located near Eski Gördes in Asiatic Turkey.[2][3]
References
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- Back to citation Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p209; Gordos-Julia in Lydia, Trajan, Coins; Coin of Julia Gordos under Antoninus Pius.
- Back to citation Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (University of California Press, 2 Nov. 1996)p210.
- Back to citation Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine (Routledge, 2012) p409.
- Back to citation H. Malay, Great Antiochose Basic Apollophanes A Adjusted To Zeus Around Gordos.
- Back to citation Peter Thonemann, Inscriptions from Hadrianopolis, Tieion, Iulia Gordos and Toriaion, P H I L I A - International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Volume 1 • 2015 p82-83.
- Back to citation Catholic Hierarchy