Lyrnessus

Lyrnessus was an ancient town in the Troad region of north-western Asia Minor, known almost entirely through Greek myth and the Iliad. Tradition places it in Dardania and says it was inhabited by Cilicians, who also held the nearby town of Cilician Thebe, with which it was closely associated. In the legendary account of the Trojan War, Lyrnessus was ruled by a king named Euenus. His son Mynes had married Briseis, and when she was widowed she became a prize of Achilles. The town is now grouped among the ancient sites of Balikesir in present-day Turkey, and what is known of it rests on Homer and the later writers who retell the episode rather than on dated excavation results.