Listed 11 sub titles with search on: The inhabitants for wider area of: "MESSINIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Pylos the son of Cleson, bringing from the Megarid the Leleges who then occupied the country.
MESSINIA (Prefecture) PELOPONNISOS
The dirge in Mani is a kind of folk song and popular poetry which
is not met anywhere else in Greece. The dirge of Inside Mani has an eight-syllable
metre while the one of Outside Mani has a fifteen-syllable metre and are sung
during funerals and masses. Men do not participate in the «clama» (=mourning ,
crying) as the dirge is called so that they won’t show their sensitivity while
the women mourn the dead person hierarchically. When it is a man being mourned,
the «clama» starts from the mother, then the sister, the daughter and finally
ends at the wife.
Being mourned by individuals outside the family is also an honour
for the family of the dead person. In Mani, the women who sing dirges, and at
the moment of singing, are in a psychological state of ecstacy and speak in verse
using characterizations and comments on the dead person’s life and social activities.
A good dirge singer is thought of very highly in the local community and everybody
respects and admires her, while, when she is at a «clama», everyone hangs on her
every word to listen to what she has to say. The people present learn and remember
the best dirges, and sing those in various moments of their lives, creating the
«tragoudomirologia» (=song-dirges), from which the saddest words have been removed.
This extract is cited March 2003 from the Messenia Prefecture Tourism Promotion Commission URL below.
ASSINI (Ancient city) KORONI
The people of Asine originally adjoined the Lycoritae on Parnassus.
Their name, which they maintained after their arrival in Peloponnese, was Dryopes,
from their founder. Two generations after Dryops, in the reign of Phylas, the
Dryopes were conquered in battle by Heracles and brought as an offering to Apollo
at Delphi. When brought to Peloponnese according to the god's instructions to
Heracles, they first occupied Asine by Hermion. They were driven thence by the
Argives and lived in Messenia. This was the gift of the Lacedaemonians, and when
in the course of time the Messenians were restored, they were not driven from
their city by the Messenians.
But the people of Asine give this account of themselves. They admit
that they were conquered by Heracles and their city in Parnassus captured, but
they deny that they were made prisoners and brought to Apollo. But when the walls
were carried by Heracles, they deserted the town and fled to the heights of Parnassus,
and afterwards crossed the sea to Peloponnese and appealed to Eurystheus. Being
at feud with Heracles, he gave them Asine in the Argolid.
The men of Asine are the only members of the race of the Dryopes to
pride themselves on the name to this day. The case is very different with the
Euboeans of Styra. They too are Dryopes in origin, who took no part in the battle
with Heracles, as they dwelt at some distance from the city. Yet the people of
Styra disdain the name of Dryopes, just as the Delphians have refused to be called
Phocians. But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes,
and clearly have made the most holy of their sanctuaries in memory of those which
they once had, established on Parnassus. For they have both a temple of Apollo
and again a temple and ancient statue of Dryops, whose mysteries they celebrate
every year, saying that he is the son of Apollo.
The town itself lies on the coast just as the old Asine in Argive
territory. It is a journey of forty stades from Colonides to Asine, and of an
equal number from Asine to the promontory called Acritas. Acritas projects into
the sea and has a deserted island, Theganussa, lying off it. After Acritas is
the harbor Phoenicus and the Oenussae islands lying opposite. (Paus. 4.34.9-12)
It has to do with the wealth and the prosperity that the town used to have, thanks to the great oil export from its port.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
First war of Messenians with Lacedaemonians, second war of Messenians with Lacedaemonians, Messenians defeated at Great Trench, settle on Mount Ira, conquered a second time by Lacedaemonians and banished from Peloponnese, exiled Messenians settle at Zancle (Messene) in Sicily, Messenians revolt from Lacedaemonians a second time and take refuge on Ithome, but are subdued and allowed to depart (third Messenian war), receive Naupactus from Athenians, restored to Messenia by Thebans after battle of Leuctra, in exile forget their country's history, and are unsuccessful at Olympic games, form an alliance with Philip, son of Amyntas, revolt from Macedonia, aid Lacedaemonians against Pyrrhus, join Achaean League, welcome fugitives from Megalopolis.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 20/4/2001: 514 for Messenians.
After the return of the Heracleidae (Dorians) ,when they assigned Argos to Temenus, Cresphontes asked them for the land of Messenia Aristodemus was now dead, but Cresphontes was vigorously opposed by Theras the son of Autesion... who was at that time guardian of the sons of Aristodemus, being their uncle Cresphontes, wishing to obtain Messenia as his portion at all costs, approached Temenus, and having suborned him pretended to leave the decision to the lot. Temenus put the lots of the children of Aristodemus and of Cresphontes into a jar containing water, the terms being that the party whose lot came up first should be the first to choose a portion of the country. Temenus had caused both lots to be made of clay, but for the sons of Aristodemus sun-dried, for Cresphontes baked with fire. So the lot of the sons of Aristodemus was dissolved, and Cresphontes, winning in this way, chose Messenia.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ANDANIA (Ancient city) ANDANIA
I sanctified houses of Hermes and paths of holy Demeter and Kore her firstborn, where they say that Messene established the feast of the Great Goddesses, taught by Caucon, sprung from Phlyus' noble son. And I wondered that Lycus, son of Pandion, brought all the Attic rite to wise Andania.
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