Hellenistic Greek sacred sites in Turkey

Aigai

Manisa, Turkey

On a high shoulder of the Yunt Mountains in Manisa Province, the ancient city of Aigai held something rare: the principal oracle sanctuary of the entire Aiolis region,...

Aizanoi

Kütahya, Turkey

Aizanoi in western Turkey contains one of the best-preserved Roman temples in existence, remarkable for its dual dedication: Zeus Olympios above in the bright Ionic...

Asclepieion of Pergamon

İzmir, Turkey

One of antiquity's most celebrated healing sanctuaries, the Asclepieion stood at the edge of Pergamon where patients from across the Mediterranean came not for medicine in...

Assos

Çanakkale, Turkey

A volcanic hilltop city above the Aegean, Assos holds the only Archaic Doric temple in Anatolia and the site of Aristotle's philosophical academy....

Blaundus

Uşak, Turkey

Blaundus was founded by veterans of Alexander the Great's army on a dramatically narrow cliff-ringed peninsula jutting into the Ulubey canyon system in western Anatolia....

Iasos

Muğla, Turkey

Iasos occupies a rocky promontory in the Gulf of Güllük that was once a true island, connected to the mainland only by a narrow causeway....

Kaunos

Muğla, Turkey

Kaunos is an ancient Carian city whose most striking feature is a row of spectacular rock-cut tombs carved high into a vertical cliff face above the Dalyan River....

Klazomenai

İzmir, Turkey

Klazomenai was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, established on the western Anatolian coast in the first millennium BCE....

Knidos

Muğla, Turkey

Knidos stands at the extreme western point of the Datça Peninsula, where the Aegean gives way to the Mediterranean....

Magnesia on the Maeander

Aydın, Turkey

Magnesia on the Maeander was the city of Artemis Leucophryene, the white-browed goddess who appeared to her people in a theophany and prompted one of the most remarkable...

Miletus

Aydın, Turkey

Miletus was once the most powerful city in the Greek world—birthplace of the Milesian philosophers who first sought rational explanations for the cosmos, and the starting...

Nysa

Aydın, Turkey

Nysa on the Maeander was a Hellenistic city of unusual distinction — the mythological birthplace valley of Dionysus, a renowned center of philosophical scholarship, and...

Old Smyrna

İzmir, Turkey

Within a residential neighbourhood of modern İzmir, the Tepekule mound rises ten metres above the surrounding streets — a compressed record of human settlement from the...

Priene

Aydın, Turkey

Priene is the most completely preserved Hellenistic city on Earth — a street grid carved into the hillside below Mount Mycale, still legible after two thousand years of...

Temple of Apollo, Didyma

Part of Didyma

Aydın, Turkey

At Didyma, the ancient world came for answers. Second only to Delphi as a prophetic sanctuary, the Didymaion was one of the largest temples ever built — its 122 Ionic...

Temple of Athena at Assos

Çanakkale, Turkey

Perched at 235 metres above the Aegean Sea on the acropolis of Assos, the Temple of Athena has occupied this promontory since approximately 540 BC — the sole surviving...

Teos

İzmir, Turkey

Teos was an Ionian coastal city that served as the worldwide headquarters of the Dionysiac Artists guild — the professional association of actors, musicians, and poets who...