Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "KALAMATA Province MESSINIA" .
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Son of Hermes and Phylodamia, founds Pharae.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
A Pelasgic people, who dwelt first in Thessaly, from the Spercheus to Parnassus, and afterwards in Doris, which was called from them Dryopis. Driven out of Doris by the Dorians, they migrated to other countries, and settled in Peloponnesus, Euboea, and Asia Minor. S
Dryopes : Perseus Encyclopedia
Dryopes, Dryopians : Perseus Project Index
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Hippocoon disputed Tyndareus about the kingship, claiming the throne on the ground of being the eldest. With the end of Icarius and his partisans he had surpassed Tyndareus in power, and forced him to retire in fear; the Lacedaemonians say that he went to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled to Aphareus in 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.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa, from whom Alagonia, a town in Laconia, derived its name. (Paus. iii. 21.6, 26.8)
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Abia, the nurse of Hyllus, a son of Heracles. She built a temple of Heracles at Ira in Messenia, for which the Heraclid Cresphontes afterwards honoured her in various other ways, and also by changing the name of the town of Ira into Abia. (Paus. iv. 30. Β§ 1.)
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Gorgasus, (Gorgasos), one of the sons of Machaon, the son of Aesculapius, by Anticleia, the daughter of Diocles, king of Pherae, in Messenia who, after the death of his grandfather, succeeded to the kingdom. He also followed the example of his father, by practising the art of healing, for which he received divine honours after his death. (Paus. iv. 30.2.)
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