Lampsacus

E74886

ancient Greek city

Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek city →
ancientNameInGreek	Λάμψακος →
associatedWithPhilosophicalSchool	Epicureanism → Peripatetic school →
colonizedFrom	Miletus → Phocaea →
country	Ancient Greece →
economicActivity	maritime trade → viticulture →
famousResident	Anaxagoras of Clazomenae → Chrysippus of Lampsacus → Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) → Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) → Strato of Lampsacus →
foundedBy	Greek colonists →
hasCitizenshipStatus	free city under Roman rule →
hasType	polis →
historicalPeriod	Classical antiquity → Hellenistic period → Roman period →
knownFor	culture → philosophy → wine production → worship of Priapus →
languageSpoken	Ancient Greek →
locatedIn	Asia Minor → Mysia →
locatedInPresentDay	Turkey →
locatedNear	Gallipoli peninsula →
locatedOn	eastern shore of the Hellespont →
mentionedBy	Herodotus → Pliny the Elder → Strabo → Thucydides →
modernNearbySettlement	Lapseki →
partOf	Achaemenid Empire → Delian League → Hellenistic world →
region	Troad (broad cultural region) →
religiousCult	Greek polytheism → cult of Priapus →
situatedOnWaterBody	Dardanelles →
strategicImportance	control of Hellespontine sea route →
underControlOf	Alexander the Great → Lysimachus → Pergamon → Persian satrapy of Hellespontine Phrygia → Roman Empire → Roman Republic →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anaxagoras →	deathPlace
Themistocles →	grantedCity
Battle of Aegospotami →	locatedNear