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the 4th century BC coming of Alexander of Macedon, Gocek may have been known as
Hyparna, the name Hyparna known to us only from records kept by Alexander's scribes. Those
scribes cite Hyparna as a fortified village east of the Indus, now the Dalaman River. Hyparna
was then defended by Greek mercenaries in the pay of Persia, but mercenaries not paid enough to
put up more than token resistance. Alexander hardly paused. Neither did he pause for long at
Telmessus, now Fethiye, though he did leave a detachment of Macedonians there to deny Persia the
port's facilities. Among Macedonians Amyntas was a relatively common name. Amyntas was not a
Telmessian name nor was it a Lycian name. So it might be surmised that the magnificent temple
tomb in the hill above Fethiye, a temple tomb inscribed with the name Amyntas and architecturally
dated to the late 4th century BC, may well have been the final resting place of one of Alexander's
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ancient history? Perhaps cruising east to Kalkan, gateway to the heart of Lycia, to Patara and
Pinara and Letoon and Xanthos, home of those mighty Trojan allies of whom Homer wrote. Or cruising
further along Alexander's path to Andriake where four hundred years later Saint Paul was to
transship while a prisoner en route to Rome. Where sixty years still later the Roman Emperor
Hadrian was to build the massive cistern depicted in the photograph above, a cistern few people
today are able to locate and which is seen by perhaps five (that's the handful
five, not five million) of Turkey's twenty-one million annual
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