Castabus Explained

Castabus or Kastabos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Κάσταβος) was a town of ancient Caria. Diodorus says Hemithea was carried off by Apollo and deified at Castabus. The city came under Rhodian control, as part of the Rhodian Peraia, no later than 300 BC.^[1] In 1960, an ancient Greek sanctuary (1st century BC) dedicated to the demigod Hemithea was discovered near the city by the British archaeologists J.M. Cook and W.H. Plommer.^[2] The sanctuary consists of a temple, a theatre and numerous houses. The theatre follows the common typical layout of Greek theatres, with a wide koilon (auditorium) and a small scene-building.

Its site is located near Pazarlık, Asiatic Turkey.^[3]

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Notes and References

1. Book: Wilkening-Aumann, Christine . The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre . 2015 . Aarhus University Press . 978-87-7124-996-5 . Frederiksen . Rune . Aarhus, Denmark . 233 . en . The Hellenistic Theatre in the Sanctuary of Hemithea at Kastabos (Asia Minor) . Gebhard . Elizabeth R. . Sokolicek . Alexander.
2. Cook, J. M., and W. H. Plommer. "The shrine of a Greek demi-goddess revealed on the coast of Asia Minor: The 2400-year-old Temple of Hemithea, near Pazarlık." (1961): 750-751.
3. Book: Bresson, Alain . Recueil des inscriptions de la Pérée rhodienne: (Pérée intégrée) . 1991 . Presses Universitaires Franche-Comté . 978-2-251-60445-9 . 3 . fr.