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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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In Ionia nine cities1 were in the habit of holding a common assemblage of all the
Ionians and of offering sacrifices of great antiquity on a large scale to Poseidon in a lonely
region near the place called Mycale. Later, however, as a result of the outbreak of wars in
this neighbourhood, since they were unable to hold the Panionia there, they shifted the
festival gathering to a safe place near Ephesus. Having sent an embassy to Delphi, they
received an oracle telling them to take copies of the ancient ancestral altars at Helice, which
was situated in what was then known as Ionia,2 but is known now as Achaia.
1 Herodotus (Hdt. 1.145) has twelve Ionian cities and makes the connection between Achaia and Ionia. Helice and Bura are specially mentioned there as two places of refuge of the Ionians from the Achaeans. Cp. Strabo 14.1.20 for the festival celebrated near Mycale.
2 See chap. 48.3 for earthquake and tidal wave. On the connection of Helice and Bura with the Ionians see Strabo 8.7.2 and 4: "after Bura, Helice, whither the Ionians fled for refuge after they were conquered in battle by the Achaeans, and whence at last they were expelled."
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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