Pygela

{{Short description|Town in ancient Ionia}}

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| native_name =Πύγελα or Φύγελα

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| image = IONIA, Phygela. Circa 350-300 BC.jpg

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| caption = Coins issued by Pygela ca. 350-300 BC

| map = Admiralty Chart No 1546 Samos Strait to Mandelyah Gulf, Published 1898.jpg

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| map_caption = Admiralty Chart No 1546 Samos Strait to Mandelyah Gulf, Published 1898. The ruins of Pygela are noted near the top of the chart.

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| coordinates = {{coords|37.862209|N|27.263729|E|display=title,inline|format=dms|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/22782}}

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| region = Ionia

| type = Different at different periods

| part_of = Municipal unit of Melia
Municipal unit of Samos
Stand-alone polis
Polis with sympoliteia (double citizenship) with Miletos
Municipal unit of Ephesos

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{{for|the town of ancient Lycia|Pygela (Lycia)}}

Pygela ({{langx|grc|Πύγελα}}) or Phygela (Φύγελα)[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=pygela-harpers Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pygela] was a small town of ancient Ionia, on the coast of the Caystrian Bay, a little to the south of Ephesus. It is located near Kuşadası, Asiatic Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|61}}{{Cite DARE|22782}} The ruins are right down on Pygela Plaji, "Pygela Beach." They are obviously partly drowned.

According to Greek mythology, it was said to have been founded by Agamemnon, and to have been peopled with the remnants of his army; it contained a temple of Artemis Munychia.{{Cite Hellenica|1.2.2}}{{Cite Strabo|xiv. p.639}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Πύγελα}}Harpocrat. s.v. Πύγελα; {{cite Pliny|5.31}}Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 37; {{Cite Mela|1.17}}{{Cite Livy|37.1}} Dioscorides commends the wine of this town.Dioscorides, De Materia Medica 5.12 It was a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League.{{cite book | editor1=Mogens Herman Hansen | editor2=Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis | year= 2004 | publisher= Oxford University Press |location=New York | isbn= 0-19-814099-1 | first=Lene | last=Rubinstein | chapter=Ionia | page=1094}} Silver and bronze coins dated to the 4th century BCE bearing the legends «ΦΥΓΑΛΕΩΝ» or «ΦΥΓ» are attributed to the town.