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Priene Photo Gallery 2

The first city was probably a peninsula with two harbours but there is little factual knowledge of these early days. In 495 BC the citizens of Priene participated in the Battle Lade with their contribution of 12 warships. The result was that their city was also raised to the ground by the Persians. In 359 BC Priene was rebuilt on its present site which in those days was nearer the sea. It had a port called Naulochos. Help for the task for rebuilding the city was provided by Athens thought Priene was never to the forefront of the political life of the times. Bias, considered to be one of world's seven most important philosophers, traditionally thought to have lived in Priene at around 600 BC. Plutarch tells the story of how the King of Egypt consulted the great thinker as to which evil should be removed from an unhappy man in order that he should be cured of his misery. "His tongue," was the reply.