Knidos

Knidos was an ancient Greek city of Caria on the Datca peninsula in southwestern Asia Minor, a member of the Dorian Hexapolis confederation of six Dorian Greek cities, occupying by the 4th century BC the site of modern Tekir in Turkey. Originally ruled by an oligarchic senate of sixty members, it prospered through maritime trade and came under Persian, then Athenian, then Roman control, the Romans granting it freedom after it aided them against Antiochus III; a Hellenistic-era medical school operated there. Knidos was renowned for the Aphrodite of Knidos, a celebrated statue by the sculptor Praxiteles known today through Roman copies, and for the Lion of Knidos, a colossal marble monument commemorating a naval victory now held in the British Museum.