Lykia and Pamphylia

The Corcyrian Caves are now known as the Heaven and Hell caves. The underground river was very clear and pure that ran to the sea and was called the Bitter Water. Amongst the shrubs that grew here was the saffron crocus. The caves are actually sinkholes.
    Aratos wrote the original Phainomena. Pompeiupolis was a later Roman settlement built on Soloi where pirates were resettled. The Issic gulf is the eastern Mediterranean at Israel. Issus is a city that gave it its name. Philamon the comedic poet was from the area. Panaitios too. Pamphylia pamphlet? Zenothetes.
   Xanthos is one of the larger cities who voted in three representatives. Proportional representation. Myra was another big city. The Chelidonian islands lie off Lykia near Pisidia. Cleopatra VII liked Antonius and he liked her.
   Isaura pirate said Isauricus and I destroyed him at Isaura along with the other pirates as they were an eyesore. Servilius Isauricus.
   Chimaira monster from near Mount Antikragos and city of Kragos and Pandaros the Trojan was honoured near Pinara. Kragos is similar to the Gaelic word crag. Gaelic gall gaul Galatians. All one race.
   Lykian Phaselis was razed by Alexander the Great when he opened the narrows of Termessos and he navigated the narrow passage at the foot of Mt Klimax in stormy weather. The tide was in and the coastal area was flooded so he and his army spent most of the day wading up to their bellies in water coming in from the Pamphylian Sea.
  River Kataractes was very torrential and noisy and can be heard as far as Berlin. Attaleia was named after King Attalos. Kallisthenes says the Trojans came to Pamphylia. Korakesion is the start of Rough Kilikia or Trachiotis. Level Kilikia is called Pedias. Herodotus says the Trojans followed Amphilochos and Kalchas. Others went with Mopsos over the Tauros mountains.
   In Kilikia there was a revolutionary  called Diodotus who operated from Korakesion, a fortress on a rock called Tryphon. Diodotus urged the Syrian and Kilikian people to revolt against the Seleukian kings and he was eventually locked up in a cell by Antiochus VII and was forced to kill himself. Other uprisings quickly followed suit as is often the case in revolutions. The people began to revolt against these nasty kings. Kilikian pirates took advantage of the situation and captured people and sold them as slaves to the Romans at the great naval base and emporium of Delos. This was a lucrative trade as the Romans paid good money for slaves as they were very wealthy and made much use of slaves since the capture and plundering of Corinth and Karchedon. The slaves were easy to capture in times of great upheaval. It was one ship in and one ship out. The Romans sent Scipius Aemilianus along to monitor the slave situation as it was getting quite ruthless. The kings of Egypt and Cyprus and the Rhodians were getting in on the slave trade in the guise of supporting the cause of the revolutionaries as they were enemies of the Syrians. Scipius and other Romans decided not to intervene as the Romans had ratified the hereditary succession of the Seleukian kings and were too proud to admit that they had fucked things up by doing so! The slave trade continued with the Kilikians calling themselves slave traders instead of pirates thinking that it sounded less evil. The terrible rule of King Seleukos Nikator of Syria was the straw that broke the camel's back and paved the way for the Parthians, sometimes known as Arsakes. The Romans had no choice but to go to war with the Parthians and kicked them out of Kilikia after a few bloodthirsty battles. The Romans then gave the Kilikians their country back along with their coastline and there was peace at last.
   "One sees the sickness in Tarsos especially in its excrement" said Athenodoros, teacher of Caesar, at an assembly. This relates to the man who had splattered diarrhoea extensively on his front door and walls of his house. Prior to this, Boethus the bad poet was exiled from Tarsos and his government was dissolved by Athenodoros son of Sandon.