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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
City of Asia Minor, northwest of Ephesus (area
7).
Colophon was one of the member cities of the Ionian Confederacy, the Paniones,
grouping cities founded in Asia Minor by Ionians fleeing the southern shores
of the gulf of Corinth west of Sicyon
in northern Peloponnese when the area was conquered
by Achæans (Herodotus' Histories,
I, 142-148).
Colophon was the birthplace of the philosopher Xenophanes.
