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makjetil - 15 Aug 2004 20:05 GMT

Acording to some old sources there is in the areas of Pontus and Bythina i
modern days Turkey a harbour and a lake called Ascanius. Do anybody know the
turkish names of these places?

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Lars Rugaard - 27 Sep 2004 10:32 GMT

Ascania
Strabo suggests that Homer refers to two different Ascanias: one in Phrygia
(Il. 2.863) and another one in Mysia (Il. 13.793), near the posterior city
of Nicaea, that both were allies of the Trojans in the War of Troy. The name
of their leaders was Ascanius and the geographer says that this synonimity
is not remarkable because Homer often used to use synomyms and names of
persons after rivers, lakes and places (see Strab. 12,4,5 & 14,5,29).

> Acording to some old sources there is in the areas of Pontus and Bythina i
> modern days Turkey a harbour and a lake called Ascanius. Do anybody know the
> turkish names of these places?

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