Cape Baba Explained

Cape Baba (Turkish: Baba Burnu) or Cape Lecton (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Λεκτόν)[1] is the westernmost point of the Turkish mainland, making it the westernmost point of Asia. It is located at the village of Babakale ("Father Castle"), Ayvacık, Çanakkale, in the historical area of the Troad. There was a lighthouse at Cape Baba that was called Lekton (Latinized as Lectum) in classical times,[2] anglicised as Cape Lecture.[3]

Cape Lecton is mentioned in Homer's Iliad,[4] and by many ancient writers and geographers, including Herodotus,[5] Thucydides,[6] Aristotle,[7] Livy,[8] Plutarch,[9] Strabo,[10] Pliny the Elder,[11] Athenaeus[12] and Ptolemaeus.[13]

The Acts of the Apostles records a journey around the Cape from Troas to Assos undertaken by Luke the Evangelist and his companions, while Paul the Apostle took the journey over land (Acts 20:13). The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains:

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39.4797°N 26.0633°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lecton — Brill.
  2. [William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]
  3. [Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary]
  4. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc1:14.280 Homer, Iliad, 14.284
  5. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc1:9.114 Herodotus, The Histories, 9.114
  6. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-grc1:8.101 Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 8.101
  7. https://cts.perseids.org/read/greekLit/tlg0086/tlg014/1st1K-grc1/5.15 Aristotle, History of Animals, 5.15.3
  8. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/livy/liv.37.shtml#37 Livy, History of Rome, 37
  9. https://topostext.org/work/192#Luc.3.8 Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 3.8
  10. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:13.1.2 Strabo, Geography, 13.1.2
  11. https://latin.packhum.org/cit/PlinSen/Nat/5.121#366 Pliny the Elder, Natural History
  12. http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/erudits/athenee/livre3gr.htm#88a Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 3.88
  13. https://topostext.org/work/209#5.2.4 Ptolemaeus, Geography, 5.2.4

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