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“an ancient Turkish wonder” “Blocks of marble that made up a wall of the mausoleum, built more than 300 years BC”
Turkish?
The Turks didn’t invade and take over Byzantium and make it Turkey until almost a thousand years later.
Halicarnassus was originally a Dorian colony of Greece. Things were swell and cultured for a while, but then Lygdamis came to power and started killing the poets. The long-winded Herodotus, a native of Halicarnassus, left in 457 BCE.
By 387 BCE the Dorian cities of Asia became subservient to Persia, and under the Persian satrap Mausolus things started looking up again.
The city prospered, and was wealthy enough for Mausolus’ widow Artemisia II (who was also his sister!) to build a gigantic tomb named the Mausoleum after its occupant. It was about 45 meters tall, and the exterior walls had sculptural reliefs. It was so gigantic and elaborate that it was included in the standard list of Seven Wonders of the World (compiled by one Antipater of Sidon). And, “Mausoleum” became a general term for an above-ground tomb, especially ones that were large, elaborate, or ideally, both.
IIRC, The Knights of Malta used what was left of the ruins after earthquakes and pillaging to built the castle. Today we call that recycling.
Bodrum is a nice little town.
bump for later.