Seleucia
The port of Antioch.
Description
"'[...] Seleucia is the real port of Antioch. The sea-town is at the mouth of the river Orontes, which is also gracefully suitable to receive boats that can go up the river as far as Antioch when the water is deep. The town you see, the larger one, is Seleucia. The other one, to the south, is not a town, but the ruins of a devastated place. They are deceiving, but it is a dead place. That chain is the Pierios, after which the town is called Seleucia Pieria. The mountain top farther inland, beyond the plain, is mount Casius, and it dominates like a giant the plain of Antioch. The other chain to the north is the Amanus. Oh! You will see the work the Romans have done in Seleucia and in Antioch! They could not have done anything greater. A port with three basins, which is one of the best, canals, jetties and breakwaters.'"[1]
Highlights
This is where Syntyche and John of Endor, the exiles who will found the famous Church of Antioch, land. See the Acts of the apostles.[2]
Its name
Port of Antioch in Syria. Other names: Seleucia on the sea, Seleucia of Pieria, Pieria.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
GRM 321
Learn more about this place
Founded by Seleucus I. Spreads over a hill at the site of Antigonea.
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