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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
City of Asia Minor (area 6).
Halicarnassus was one of six cities of Dorian origin
in Caria that had gathered in a confederacy having its
common sanctuary, a temple to Apollo, on the promontory on which Cnidus
was located, named the Triopion. Together they formed what used to be called
the Hexapolis (in Greek, "the six cities") until, for some reason, Halicarnassus
was excluded and the remaining cities became the Pentapolis (in Greek, "the
five cities" : see Herodotus' Histories,
I, 144).
Halicarnassus was the birthplace of the first historian
whose works have come down to us, Herodotus.