Cos (city)

{{Short description|City of ancient Greece}}

Cos or Kos ({{langx|grc|Κῶς}}) was a city of ancient Greece on the island of the same name. In 366 BCE, the inhabitants of the town of Astypalaea abandoned their town to populate Cos.{{Cite Strabo|xiv. p. 658}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ἀστυπάλαια}} Cos was a member of the Dorian Pentapolis, whose sanctuary was on the Triopian promontory.{{Cite Herodotus|1.144}} Under the Athenian rule it had no walls, and it was first fortified by Alcibiades at the close of the Peloponnesian War.{{Cite Thucydides|8.108}} In subsequent times it shared the general fate of the neighbouring coasts and islands. Antoninus Pius rebuilt the city, after it had been destroyed by an earthquake.{{Cite Pausanias|8|43|1}} et seq.

Its site is located near modern Kos.{{Cite Barrington|61}}{{Cite DARE|22680}}

File:The Abduction of Europa mosaic 2008.jpg|An Ancient Roman mosaic depicting the Abduction of Europa in the House of Europa in the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos town

File:Kos Gymnasion 7.jpg|Ruins of the Ancient Gymnasion

File:Kos Asklepeion.jpg|View of the Asclepeion

File:Odeon of Kos 3.jpg|View of the ancient Odeon