The true mythology of the constellations

Ancient Syria

Dionysos - Dousares

                                              Dionysos - marble (150 CE) - State Hermitage Museum

Zeugma

    Floor masaics from Zeugma

     
     Photographs: iefimerida, muratd, wikipedia

Babylon

Coordinates:  32.5422   44.421

Ancient Greek cities in Asia

  

  
Taprobane is the ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka.



There is a river Phasis in prehistoric Colchis (near Caucasus) and a river Phasis in Taprobane. According to Nonnos (Dionysiaka 13, 223), the Cretans had built a colony in Colchis. Diodorus (5, 42 and 46) writes that in the island Pachaea near India there were Cretan priests from the time of Zeus. Ptolemy (Geography 7, 2, 25) mentions a city Tharra in Thailand. But this is a Cretan name.

The last three maps are based on Ptolemy's coordinates.