An ancient Greek city of Asia Minor in present-day southwest Asiatic Turkey. It was noted for its wealth and its magnificent buildings and statuary.
Cnidus
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An ancient Greek city of Asia Minor in present-day southwest Asiatic Turkey. It was noted for its wealth and its magnificent buildings and statuary.
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| Bible Guide: Cnidus |
A city on a promontory on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor sighted by Paul on his voyage to Rome.
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Acts 27:7
| Classical Literature Companion: Cnidus |
Cnidus, Greek city on the coast of Caria in south-western Asia Minor, a Lacedaemonian colony, and one of the six Dorian colonies in Asia Minor known collectively as the Dorian Hexapolis, namely Cnidus, Cos, Halicarnassus (before its expulsion), and the three cities of Rhodes: Lindus, Ialysus, and Camirus. Owing to its favourable situation it acquired great wealth from trade. Famous citizens include Ctēsias and Eudoxus. Aphroditē was worshipped there, and the Cnidians, who seem to have been fond of art, possessed the statue by Praxiteles of the goddess naked; they refused the king of Bithynia's offer to pay their public debt in exchange for it. (See also DELPHI.) In the fifth century BC Cnidus developed a flourishing medical school; with Cos it became the main centre for teaching medicine, with its own particular doctrines and practices.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: Cnidus |
Cnidus or Cnidos (both: nī'dəs), ancient Greek city of Caria, SW Asia Minor, on Cape Krio, in present SW Asian Turkey. It was partly on the peninsula and partly on an island that had been created by cutting through the peninsula. One of the cities of the Dorian Hexapolis, it sought to maintain its independence but fell (540 B.C.) under Persian rule. It had a large trade, particularly in wine, and was also noted for its medical school and other institutions of learning. One of the most famous statues of the ancient world, Aphrodite by Praxiteles, was there. In the waters off Cnidus the Athenians under Conon defeated the Spartans under Pisander in 394 B.C. Cnidus retained its importance in Roman times and is mentioned in the Bible (Acts 27.7; 1 Mac. 15.23).
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