Turkey, Mugla, Caria, Stratonikeia ancient city (00:07:44)

According to Strabo, it was founded by the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter (281–261 BC), who named it after his wife Stratonice.  Or at least this is what has been generally told; some historians have contested this date as too early, and proposed to consider the city’s founder Stratonice’s son, Antiochus II Theos, or, later still, Antiochus III the Great. What seems certain is that the city was founded on the site of an old Carian town, Idrias, anciently called Chrysaoris, said to be the first town funded by the Lycians. Later it passed under the control of the Achaemenid Empire. According to Athens’ tribute “assessment” of 425 BC Idrias was supposed to be responsible for the payment of the considerable sum of six talents. Like many other non-Greek cities on the 425 BC assessment Idrias is never recorded actually paying any tribute to Athens and was never a member of the Delian League.