مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A General Observation to the Political Changes at Caunus in the IVth and IIIth Centuries BC

Abstract :

Caunus, a city at the south shore of the Caria, is a port city located on the opposite coast from Rhodes. The city has been put back because of the high mountain ridges that the face of the your was turned towards to the east and on the South to Lycia. The earliest traces of settlement in Caunus are not older than the VIIth century B.C. Some monuments found in the harbour agora and its environment carry indications of events from Caunus in the IVth and IIIrd century B.C. Conon became famous in the Greek world after the sea battle in the sea Cnidus in 394 B.C. and in several cities Caunus was also honoured with numerous sculptures. At least, with Conon statue base, we can say that Caunus as a rule supported Athens at the beginning of the IVth century B.C. Many researchers, in the light of ancient works, suggest that rule of the Ptolemaids in Caunus began in 309/308 B.C. and continued until 197 B.C. However, the exedra of Antileon dated to 302 B.C. and the epistula of Demetrius Poliorcetes, in Caunos, the Ptolemaic ascendance shows that it did not take it so long to establish itself. From this date began the rule of the Antigonoids in 302 B.C. Also the statue of Philocles is dated to between 287-278 B.C. shows that the Antigonids the region again came under Ptolemaic dominion. Therefore, in the first half of the IIIrd century B.C., Caunus changed hands between the Antigonids and the Ptolemaids Kingdom.