Cayster

To the north of the Büyük Menderes is the Küçük Menderes (Little Meander), the ancient Cayster (Caystros).

Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006

The next posts in this series will be about the colorful mostly, turbid brown, actually histories of the Meander and the Cayster rivers.

Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006

Lydia, formed by the river Cayster, near its mouth.

The Iliad of Homer 2003

Cayster, sleeping under tent, stretched deliciously on fine chariots, half dead with weariness.

The Acharnians 2000

Slowly above the tree-tops the swans are waving their great pinions, to seek the stream of Cayster.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

That night Chios quietly stole along under the stars until the old road to Smyrna intersected his path; but he did not swerve from his course until he reached the Cayster.

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

We suffered horribly on the plains of the Cayster, sleeping under a tent, stretched deliciously on fine chariots, half dead with weariness.

The Acharnians 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

He saw the river Cayster winding towards the sea like a river of death.

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

The Cayster has undoubtedly in the course of ages brought down and deposited much soil, and has formed

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Here the western chain of hills which we had skirted ceases, and the great marshy plain of Ephesus opens out, the river Cayster meandering through it.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various