Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . y a Macedonian colony, but hadexisted long before under other names, and at oneperiod belonged to Mysia. After the time of An-tiochus Nicator, however, it became an importantplace, and is often noticed in history. When thetwo Scipios arrived in Asia on their expedition againstAntiochus the Great, the latter was encamped nearThyateira, but retreated to Magnesia. (Liv. , 21, 37.) After the defeat of the Syrian king, thetown surrendered to the Romans. (Liv. xxxvii. 44;Polyb. xvi. 1, xxsii. 25; comp. Appian, S>/r. 30; p. 646; Pint. S
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . y a Macedonian colony, but hadexisted long before under other names, and at oneperiod belonged to Mysia. After the time of An-tiochus Nicator, however, it became an importantplace, and is often noticed in history. When thetwo Scipios arrived in Asia on their expedition againstAntiochus the Great, the latter was encamped nearThyateira, but retreated to Magnesia. (Liv. , 21, 37.) After the defeat of the Syrian king, thetown surrendered to the Romans. (Liv. xxxvii. 44;Polyb. xvi. 1, xxsii. 25; comp. Appian, S>/r. 30; p. 646; Pint. Sulla, 15; Ptol. v. 2. § 16; It. A 336.) In Christian times Thyateira appears asone of the seven Churches in the Apocalypse (ii. 18);in the Acts of the Apostles (xvi. 14) mention ismade of one Lydia, a purple-seller of Thyateira, andat a still later period we hear of several bishops whosesee it was. In the middle ages the Turks changedthe name of the town into Akhissar, which it stillbears. (Mich. Due. p. 114.) Sir C. Fellows (^liw. COIN OF IIIYATEIRA. THYJIENA. jilin. p. 22), who calls the modern place Aha,states that it teems with relics of an ancient splendidcity, although he could not discover a trace of thesite of any ruin or early building. These relics consistchiefly of fragments of pillars, many of which liavebeen chantred into well-tops or trouglis. (, Seven Churches, p. 188, foil.; Wheelerand Spon, vol. i. p. 253; Lucas, Troisieme 192, &c.; Prokesch, Denkwiirdiglceiten, iii. p. 60,foil.) [L. S.] THYIA (Quia), a place in Pliocis, where theDelphians erected an altar to the winds, derived itsname from Thyia, a daughter of Cephissus or Casta-lius, and the mother of Delphus by Apollo. (Herod,vii. 178; Diet, of Biogr. axl. Tiiyia.) THYiMBRA (Qv/xep-q or Ovfxgpa), a town ofTroas, in the vicinity of Ilium, ( x. 430;Steph. v.; Phn. v. 33.) Strabo (xiii. p. 598)speaks of it only as a plain traversed by the riverThymbrius. The valley of Thy
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