Talk:Nysa on the Maeander

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Huon in topic Correction


Correction edit

This article says: The city had been dedicated to Dionysus when it was founded, perhaps by Antiochus I Soter in the third century BC /but it was founded before Antiochus I Soter! The name, Dionysos already means "Zeus (Dios) of Nysa"! Böri (talk) 13:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Dionysus is named after the mythological mountain of Nysa on whose location the ancients' opinions widely differed. Are there any sources suggesting that the place was named Nysa before Antiochus I Soter founded the city? Otherwise I'd consider it more probable that the city was simultaneously dedicated to Dionysus and named after his fabled childhood home. Huon (talk) 14:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)Reply


There is some conflict with Nyssa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyssa_(Cappadocia) In the present is writen "which remains a Latin Catholic titular see" and in the link "Today, its name continues to be used as a titular see in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church."