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ΑΒΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑ
he Abia: nr. Zarnata. A town of Messenia, on the Messenian gulf, and
a little above the woody dell, named Choerius, which formed the boundary between
Messenia and Laconia in the time of Pausanias. It is said to have been the same
town as the Ira of the Iliad (ix. 292), one of the seven towns which Agamemnon
offered to Achilles, and to have derived its later name from Abia, the nurse of
Hyllus, the son of Hercules. Subsequently it belonged, with Thuria and Pharae,
to the Achaean League. It continued to be a place of some importance down to the
reign of Hadrian, as we learn from an extant inscription of that period.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town of Messenia on the Messenian Gulf, and at one time a member of the Achaean League.
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