Hypæpa

Hypæpa or Hypaepa (Ύπαιπα or Ύπηπα) was a city in Lydia, on the southern slope of the Tmolus, looking towards the plain of Caystrus. The goddess Artemis Persica was worshipped there, and its women were noted for their beauty and their skill in dancing. It coined its own money until the time of Emperor Gordianus. Pausanias mentions a Persian rite practiced in Hypaepa. [Paus. V 27:5-6 [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=27:section=1 text at Perseus] ] Demostene Baltazzi excavated Hypaepa in 1885. [ [http://www.levantine.plus.com/testi44.htm Leventine Heritage] ]

Under the Roman Empire, it lay in the Roman province of Asia Minor.

It is now a little village in Turkey called Günlüce (or Tapu?), 4 km northwest of Ödemiş, İzmir Province. [ [http://www2.egiklopedia.gr/asiaminor/forms/fLemma.aspx?lemmaId=6582 Ύπαιπα (Αρχαιότητα)] ] Under the Ottoman Empire, it was located in the vilayet of İzmir; local Christians retained the ancient name. It has ruins dating from classical and medieval times.

Church history

Hypaepa was an episcopal see until the thirteenth century; under Isaac II Angelus Comnenus (1185-1195 and 1203-1204) it became a metropolitan see. Lequien ("Oriens Christianus" I, 695) mentions six bishops: Mithres, present at the First Council of Nicaea in 325; Euporus, at the Council of Ephesus in 431; Julian, at Ephesus, 449, and at the Council of Chalcedon in 451; Anthony, who abjured Monothelism at the Third Council of Constantinople in 680; Theophylactus, at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787; Gregory, at the Council of Constantinople in 879. To these may be added Michael, who in 1230 signed a document issued by the Patriarch Germanus II (Revue des études grecques, 1894, VII).

Hypaepa remains a Roman Catholic titular bishopric, suffragan of the archbishop of Ephesus. [CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07604a.htm|title=Hypæpa]

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