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Idrias

Ἰδριάς

Idrias (Ἰδριάς), according to Stephanus B. (s. v.), a town in Caria which had formerly borne the name of Chrysaoris. Herodotus (5.118) describes the river Marsyas as flowing from a district called Idrias; and it is conjectured that Stratoniceia, founded by Antiochus Soter, was built on the site of the ancient town. of Idrias. (Comp. Leake, Asia Minor, p. 235; see LAODICEIA)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.