{{Short description|Ancient city on the Propontis, Turkey}} '''Artace''' or '''Artake''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀρτάκη}}) was a town of ancient Mysia, near Cyzicus.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|4.14}}</ref> It was a Milesian colony.<ref>{{Cite Strabo|pp. 582, 635}}</ref> It was a seaport, and on the same peninsula on which Cyzicus stood, and about 40 stadia from it. in Greek mythology, Artace is mentioned as the place where the argonauts changed the stone anchor of the ''Argo'' for a larger one.<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, ''Argonautica'' 1.955.</ref> Artace was burnt, together with Proconnesus, during the Ionian Revolt, in the reign of Darius I.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|6.33}}</ref> Probably it was not rebuilt for quite some time, for Strabo in the 1st century does not mention it among the Mysian towns: but he speaks of a wooded mountain of the name, with an island of the same name near to it,<ref>{{Cite Strabo|p. 576}}</ref> the same which Pliny the Elder calls ''Artacaeum''.<ref>{{Cite Pliny|5.32}}</ref> Timosthenes, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium,<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s. v.'' Ἀρτάκη}}</ref> also gives the name Artace or Artake to a mountain, and to a small island, one stadium from the land. In the time of Procopius (6th century), Artace had been rebuilt, and was a suburb of Cyzicus.<ref>Procopius, ''Bell. Pers.'' 1.25.</ref>

It was a member of the Delian League since it appears in tribute records of Athens between 454/3 and 418/7&nbsp;BCE.<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|page= 977}}</ref>

Its site is located near Erdek, Asiatic Turkey.<ref name=Barrington>{{Barrington Atlas|page=52}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|31361}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in ancient Mysia Category:Former populated places in Turkey Category:Milesian colonies Category:Places in Greek mythology Category:Members of the Delian League Category:Greek colonies in Mysia

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