EGETÜRKİYE

İzmir: Teos’s harbours and actors

[Teos](/en/yer/teos) was an Ionian city with two harbours. The Ionian Actors’ Association was founded there toward the end of the third century BCE. The Temple of Dionysus, dated to the early second century BCE, is associated with Hermogenes of Priene. Harbour, civic association and temple reveal distinct aspects of public life in Teos.

52 narratives and 53 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.

Four gateways into this world

  • Craft and material — Forms given to stone, timber, clay, thread, metal and plant material through local knowledge.
  • Ritual and memory — Connections made by belief, commemoration, celebration and community memory with place.
  • Music and narrative — The movement of epic, lament, zeybek, oral history and literature through geography.
  • Architecture and everyday life — The relationship of house, street, workshop, market and public building with living culture.

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