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Fig.89: Theater and Mausoleum of Opramoas. Photo by A. Kılınç.
The economic cost as a result of the earthquake was so high
that despite this, the great philanthropist put his hand in his
pocket without any hesitation. Because he knew that in order
to become immortal, he must either be a great commander or a
great benefactor. In this he chooses the latter and gave a total of
3 million denarii in aid to 30 Lycian cities, including large cities
such as Patara, Olympos, Tlos, Xanthos and Myra. The great
benefactor made the biggest of these donations to Myra with
100,000 denars and then to Tlos with 60,000 denarii. In return,
all the cities he helped gave him citizenship out of respect for his
generosity (Kızgut 2011; Çevik 2015; Kızgut 2016).
“… The people of Phaselis set up the Opramoas, son and grandson
of Apollonios and great-grandson of Calliades, citizen of Rhodiapolis,
Myra and Phaselis, who is also in all Lycian cities politically operates and
our city for a distribution and festive embassies 12,500 denarii gave.”
(Adak ‒ Öner ‒ Şahin 2005).

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