According to tradition, the founder of Ephesus was Androklos, one of the sons of the legendary King Kodros. Like the other Ionian settlements, the city must have been colonized by the 10th century B. C, at the latest. On reaching this spot, the Ionians found that the mother goddess, Kybele, held sway as chief deity, as in almost every part of Anatolia. The original settlement is thought to have been established 1,200 m. west of the Artemision, at the port of Koressos. Towards the middle of the 6th century, it came under the sovereignty of Lydia then Persia. After the death of Alexander, Ephesus together with the whole of lonia, fell into the hands of Lysimachos, who had the foresight to re-establish the city on the northern slopes of Mt. Koressos and on the southern and western slopes of Mt. Pion.