Greek Texts & Translations

two dynasties, as we have before said, ^note the head of one was Eetion, the other Mynes. 61

Homer says that Thebe was the city of Eetion; We went to Thebe, the sacred city of Eetion. ^note
Il. i. 366. To him also belonged Chrysa, which contained the temple of Apollo Smintheus, for Chryseis was taken from Thebe; We went,
he says, to Thebe, ravaged it, and carried everything away; the sons of the Achtaeans divided the booty among themselves, but selected for Atrides the beautiful Chryseis.

Lyrnessus he calls the city of Mynes, for having plundered Lyrnessus, and destroyed the walls of Thebe, ^note
Il. ii. 691. Achilles slew Mynes and Epistrophus, so that when Bryseis says, you suffered me not to weep when the swift Achilles slew my husband, and laid waste the city of the divine Mynes, ^note the poet cannot mean Thebe, for that belonged to Eetion, but Lyrnessus, for both cities lay in what was afterwards called the plain of Thebe, which, on account of its fertility, was a subject of contest among the Mysians and Lydians formerly, and latterly among the Greeks who had migrated from Aeolis and Lesbos. At present Adramytteni possess the greater part of it; there are Thebe and Lyrnessus, a strong place, but both are deserted. One is situated at the distance of 60 stadia from Adramyttium on one side, and the other 88 stadia on the other side. 62

In the Adramyttene district are Chrysa and Cilla. There is at present near Thebe a place called Cilla, in which is a temple of Apollo Cillaeus. Beside it runs a river, which comes from Mount Ida. These places are near Antandria. The Cillaeum in Lesbos has its name from this Cilla. There is also amountain Cillaeum between Gargara and Antandrus. Daes of Colonae says that the temple of Apollo Cillaeus was founded at Colonae by the Aeolians, who came by sea from Greece. At Chrysa also it is said that there is a Cillaean Apollo, but it is uncertain whether it is the same as Apollo Smintheus, or a different statue.