Concept
Oenoanda
Overview
Oenoanda or Termessos Minor (; Ancient Greek: Οἰνόανδα Oinoanda, Τερμησσός ἡ Μικρά Termessos ē Mikra) was a Lycian city, in the upper valley of the River Xanthus. It is noted for the philosophical inscription by the Epicurean, Diogenes of Oenoanda.
The ruins of the city lie on a high, isolated site, west of the modern village İncealiler in the Fethiye district of Muğla Province, Turkey, which partly overlies the ancient site.
The place name suggests that it was known for viticulture.
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To the west of the river Triton, Libyans who are husbandmen next adjoin the Auses; they are accustomed to live in houses, and are called Maxyes. They let the hair grow on the right side of the head, and shave the left; and bedaub the body with vermilion: they say that they are descended from men who came from Troy.
Herodotus, The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus
States what Oenoanda is.
Amphīon, the district of Thebes between the rivers Strophia and Ismenus (Pausan. ix. 16 and 17), 10. Amphipolis, a town of Macedon on the Strymon, taken by Brasidas in 424, 175 _n._ Amphitheüs, a Theban patriot, imprisoned by the Polemarchs, 11, 29, 43, 50. Amphitryon, father of Hercules, 13. Anactorium, a town and promontory of Acarnania, 184. Anaxagoras, 499-427, a philosopher of Clazomenae in Ionia, 71, 165, 231…
Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
Close in meaning to Oenoanda; the term itself is not named.
This city is said to be the mother-city of all the other Ethiopians: and they who dwell in it reverence of the gods Zeus and Dionysos alone, and these they greatly honour; and they have an Oracle of Zeus established, and make warlike marches whensoever the god commands them by prophesyings and to whatsoever place he commands. Sailing from this city you will come to the "Deserters" in another period of time equal to…
Herodotus, An Account of Egypt
Close in meaning to Oenoanda; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Oenoanda
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Turkey
- Hadrian
- Physics
- Classical antiquity
- Epicureanism
- Lycia
- Strabo
- Ancient Rome
- Catholic Church
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Diogenes of Oenoanda
Place in the tradition
Part of Epicureanism.