When Freya Stark traveled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other tourist; today, this region is the most popular in the country. Wandering beyond the boundaries of travel, Stark entered into the soul of ancient Ionia, examining the ever-present tensions between East and West and the elements of religion, society, and commerce that forged the culture of a civilization.
"First published in 1954 by John Murray (Publishers) Limited" --t.p. verso.
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Contents
Synopsis of History -- Dates -- 1. Dawn in Ionia -- 2. Smyrna: The Family in the Levant -- 3. Clazomenae: The Philosophic Weather -- 4. Teos: Anacreon and the Poetry of Living -- 5. Erythrae: Exile and Slavery -- 6. Chios: Ingredients of Empire -- 7. Myrina: 'New Harvests Cover the Land' -- 8. Gryneium: Solitude and Patriotism -- 9. Pitane: Toleration and Truth -- 10. Pergamum: The Raiders of the Border -- 11. Cyme: The Phrygian Mood -- 12. Phocaea: Decision -- 13. Colophon: The Position of Women -- 14. Clarus and Notium: Xenophanes and Reason -- 15. Sardis: The Commerce of Sardis -- 16. Ephesus: Commerce and the Unexpected -- 17. The Panionium: Symbols -- 18. Priene: Greatness in Art -- 19. The Oracle of Didyma: Ecclesiastical Tradition -- 20. Miletus: The Aegean -- 21. Heracleia: The Myth -- 22. Magnesia on Maeander: The Persian Administration -- 23. Aphrodisias: The Ease of Life -- 24. Hierapolis and Laodicea.