Location of Lampsacus (Lapseki).
Lampacus is a city of Greek antiquity on the eastern side of Hellespont. Nowadays, the city is called Lapseki. History
Originally called Lampsacus Pityasa or Pityussa when founded by Phocaea. According to the legend of Pomponius Mela, the city received her name when an oracle answered the question of where the city had to be founded: where it was blinded (in Greek lampein). In the beginning, Lampsacus was involved in various border conflicts, including Milete and the Thracian Miltades, who, according to Herodotus, conducted a war with Lampacus. Miltiades were lured by the lampiacians and imprisoned and released only after the threat of King Croesus.
In the sixth century BC. Lampsacus was consecutively conquered by Lydia and the Persian empire. Although the city fell formally under the Persian Empire, she was ruled by one of her own citizens, Hippoklos, whose son Aeantides married a daughter of Peisistratos. In 471 BC, Artaxerxes admitted the city to Themistocles, under the obligation of the Persian king to provide the rest of his life with her famous wine.
Lampsacus became a member of the Mycian member of the Delicacic Sea Seal and paid an estimate of twelve talents a year, indicating the extraordinary wealth of the city. The covenant with Athens faded during the Sicilian expedition. A revolt came in 411 BC. violently dropped through Athens. In 405 BC Lampsacus was taken by Lysander for Sparta, but left to the Persians some time later. In 362 BC. Lampsacus became autonomous for a while. However, the good relationship with Athens quickly declined. In 355 BC. the city was conquered by the Athener Chares.
In 334 BC. Lampsacus was conquered by Alexander the Great. In 196 BC. Rome defended the city against Antioch III the Great, after which the city was connected with the Roman Empire.
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