• the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?

Facts on topics related to Cyme (Aeolis)

Dorians

• in Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians?

Aegean Sea

• Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the Second World War, before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October 1944?
• Philip II of Macedon used the Social War (357-355 BC) as an opportunity to further the interests of his Macedonian Empire in the Aegean region?
• thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea, in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano?
• the Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade?

Classical antiquity

• Jacopo de' Barberi painted the first trompe l'oeil still-life (pictured) since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?
• more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity?
• the alloy hepatizon was highly valuable in classical antiquity, and was named due to its similarity to the colour of liver?
• the Cabinet des Médailles is the oldest museum of Paris, and houses the largest gold coin of Antiquity, a 20-stater of Eucratides I (pictured)?
• the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?

Homer

• Polydorus (pictured being killed by Polymestor), son of Priam, features in Euripides' Greek tragedy Hecuba, Virgil's Roman epic The Aeneid and Homer's Iliad?
• in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?
• the Achilles tang was named in honor of Achilles, the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad?