She was the daughter of a local king Mandrolytos and betrayed her city to the Magnesians. According to an inscription found in the agora of Magnesia on the Meander, a prophecy of Apollo that they most probably heard in Delphi, led these settlers to Leukophryene (White Eyebrows). Later, certain Leukippos took a group of colonists to Asia Minor. They spent eighty years on the island where they had also founded the city called Magnesia. The Magnetes travelled to Asia Minor through Delphi and Crete, before they finally crossed the Aegean Sea. Because of this, Magnesia on the Meander was not accepted into the Ionian League. Geographically, Magnesia on the Maeander was located in Ionia, but the Magnetes were of Aeolian origins. Interestingly, two Magnesias were the only important towns established inland from the Aegean coast at the time of the Hellenic migration to Anatolia at the end of the second millennium BCE. The city discussed here was later called Magnesia on the Maeander, to distinguish it from Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern Manisa). To complicate the issue, Strabo comments that "the Magnetans are thought to be descendants of Delphians who settled in the Didyman hills, in Thessaly".Īfter the Trojan War, the Magnesians founded two cities in Asia Minor, both called Magnesia. Their names became the eponyms of the Magnetes and Macedones tribes. Hesiod explains that she had an affair with Zeus and bore him two sons: Magnes and Makednos. The name of the tribe originated in the myth about Thyia, a daughter of Deucalion. According to Homer, they took part in the Trojan War as a part of the Greek troops led by Agamemnon. The painter Yang Liu, for example, has incorporated smooth versions of the traditional Greek Key (also called Sona drawing, Sand drawing, and Kolam) in many of her paintings.According to Greek tradition, Magnesia on the Meander was founded by the colonists from the tribe of Magnetes who arrived in Asia Minor from Thessaly. Meanders and their generalizations are used with increasing frequency in various domains of contemporary art. A meander motif also appears in prehistoric Mayan design motifs in the western hemisphere, centuries before any European contacts. 202 BC) by way of trade with the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. 1000 BC -600 BC), frequently there is speculation that meanders of Greek origin may have come to China during the time of the Han Dynasty (c. Although space-filling curves have a long history in China in motifs more than 2,000 years earlier, extending back to Zhukaigou Culture (c. 1045 BC), and many traditional buildings in and around China still bear geometric designs almost identical to meanders. The meander is a fundamental design motif in regions far from a Hellenic orbit: labyrinthine meanders ("thunder" pattern ) appear in bands and as infill on Shang bronzes (c. The design is common to the present-day in classicizing architecture, and is adopted frequently as a decorative motif for borders for many modern printed materials. In ancient Greece they appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric Period onward. Meanders are common decorative elements in Greek and Roman art. On another hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form". On one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) that is typical of river pathways. Usually the term is used for motifs with straight lines and right angles and the many versions with rounded shapes are called running scrolls or, following the etymological origin of the term, may be identified as water wave motifs. Such a design also may be called the Greek fret or Greek key design, although these terms are modern designations even though the decorative motif appears thousands of years before that culture, thousands of miles away from Greece, and among cultures that are continents away from it.
Among some Italians, these patterns are known as "Greek Lines". Meander motif in the streets of Rhodes (Greece), in pavement made from beach stonesĪ meander or meandros ( Greek: Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.
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