Myus

Myus (Greek Μυοῦς; Myous also transcribed ) was an ancient city in what is now western Turkey. She was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League and was 15 km east-northeast of Miletus at the mouth of meanders in the Gulf Latmischen (now Lake Bafa ) near the present village Avşar.

According to ancient tradition Myus was founded by Athenians at the site of an earlier Carian settlement. According to Strabo, the city's founder was Kydrelos ( Pausanias: Kyaretos ), a son of the Athenian king Kodros. During the Ionian revolt the Persian fleet anchored in the year 499 BC before Myus ( Herodotus 5, 36). Myus participated in the Battle of charge in 494 BC with only three ships part ( Herodotus 6, 8). The Persian king Xerxes to Myus have passed the fled to the Persians Athenian commander Themistocles.

Myus a member of the Delian League, but paid only small contributions ( a talent ), as the port of the city under the increasing siltation suffered by the displacement of the meanders estuary. 201 BC Philip V gave the conquered Myus the Magnesiern. During the late Hellenistic period the town was finally united with Miletus and entirely abandoned; at the time of Pausanias in the 2nd century AD, it was already a ruin site.

During excavations was found on a terrace of the also mentioned in ancient sources Dionysos Temple, which was built in the 6th century BC in the Ionic style of white marble and measures 30 x 17 m. On another terrace was a Doric temple, which was probably dedicated to Apollo Terbintheos and of the foundations are still visible. In addition, remains of walls from the Archaic period and the ruins of a Byzantine castle can be visited.