In
the year of 10 BC, Androclos, the son of King of Athens-Kodros, was searching a location
for establishing a site. Androclos belonged to Akhas , was running from the Dor invasion
in Greece. He was leading one of the migration convoys. It was predicted by an Apollon
oracle that a fish and a boar would show the location of the new settlement. Days later,
parallel to the oracle’s prediction, while frying, a fish fell down from the pan,
irritating a hiding boar behind the bushes. The feared boar escaped immediately. Androclos
followed the boar and established the city of Ephesus, where he had killed the boar. When
Androclos died in the wars with Carians, a mausoleum was built to the memory of the first
king of Ephesus. The mausoleum is considered to be placed around "The Door of
Magnesia".
Ephesus was ruled by
the Lydian king, Kreisos, in the mid 6BC. The city reached the "Golden Age" and
became a good model to the Antic World in culture and art, as well. But the inhabitants of
Ephesus moved away. Because they did not like being ruled and lived in the new
Ephesus
that is located around the area of Artemision. As the
detailed excavations have not completed yet, apart from the Artemision, the remains of
that age haven’t been revealed.
Later, Ephesus was dominated by Persians. As
Ephesians did not join the "Ionian Rebellion" against Persians, the city was
saved from destruction. The rebellion resulted in the loss of Persian. Alexander the Great
won Persians and the Ionian cities got their independence in the year of 334.
Ephesus was
in great prosperity during the times of Alexander the Great Until the arrival of Alexander
the Great, Ephesus was consisted of two governing systems, democratic and oligarchic. But
the oligarchic system was violated with the coming of a new ruler, and a rebellion existed
in Ephesus. The Temple of Artemision was fired and destroyed
by the supporters of oligarchy in 356BC. As the temple became unusable, Alexander the
Great proposed for repairing. But the Ephesians delicately refused for the reason that
"A God can not built a temple for a God." An Ephesian architect, Dinocrates
restored the Temple of Artemision.
After the death of Alexander the Great,
Ephesus was ruled
by the general of him, Lysimakhos, in 287 BC. Lysimakhos decided to change the prior
location of Ephesus to further west, due to the destruction of the port by the alluviums,
and the inhabitants were forced to settle in the new place named "Arsinoeina",
the name of Lysimakhos’ wife. The city was surrounded by wide stone walls in 10
meters height and 9 meters length. With the death of Lysimakhos, Ephesians destroyed most
of the city walls. And, "Arsinoeina" was changed into "Ephesus" again,
to be forgotten eternally.
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