GA´RGARA
GA´RGARA (
Γάργαρα or
Γάργαρον), one of the heights of Mount Ida in Troas (
Hom. Il. 8.48,
14.292), which continued to bear this name even in the time of Strabo (
xiii. p.583; comp.
Plin. Nat. 5.32;
Macr. 5.20; Steph, B. s. v.). Its modern name is said to be
Kazdag. (Walpole's
Memoirs relating to Turkey, p. 120.)
A town of the same name existed from early times upon that height, or rather on a branch of it forming a cape on the north of the bay of Adramyttium, between Antandrus and
[p. 1.977]Assus.
In the earliest times it is said to have been inhabited by Leleges, but afterwards to have received Aeolian colonists from Assus, and others from Miletupolis. (Strab.
l.c. pp. 606, 610; Mela, 1.18; Ptol.5.2.5.)
The name of this town is in some authors misspelt
Ἰάργανον, as in Ptolemy, and
Σάγαρα, as in Hierocles.
The territory round Gargara was celebrated for its fertility. (
Verg. G. 1.103; Senec.
Phoen. 4.608.)
The modern village of
Iné probably occupies the site of ancient Gargara.
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