Guide
Teos lies at Sığacık, five kilometres from Seferihisar. A harbour city and one of the twelve Ionian cities, it was founded, according to some historians, between 1050 and 1000 BC, and its founder is known as Athamas, son of Dionysos. It had two harbours, one large and one small, and lived by sea trade. What stands today is Hellenistic and Roman.
The temple of Dionysos is the principal building, built at the start of the second century BC by Hermogenes of Priene, and the ministry calls it the largest temple raised to Dionysos in Anatolia. It was repaired often under the Roman empire but was still badly damaged by earthquakes. Walls, a theatre, the acropolis, an agora, an odeon, the council house, a gymnasium, temples and the harbour also survive in part.
Two things are known from inscriptions found on the site. The gymnasium had three classes and three teachers — two for sport, one for music. And the Ionian Actors' Guild was first established at Teos towards the end of the third century BC, the players using the city as their base and giving performances in various places.
Archaeological work here began early, in 1764 and 1765. Excavation, documentation and conservation resumed in 2010.
Entry fee
- Single entry to the museum or site · Local
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- Single entry to the museum or site · Foreign
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