Only 20 miles east of Izmir (on the Aegean coast of western Anatolia), up the Gediz (Hermus) river is 5,000 foot Mt Sipylus named circa 1300 b. c. for Tantalos’ son, of the same east-to-west mountain range as Mt Tmolus (25 miles further east) named for Tantalus’ father, Lydians who eventually relinquished power to the Hercaleidae, for 500 years, until the Lydian kings Croesus then Midas regained power.
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