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LEONIDIO (Small town) KYNOURIA
GLYPPIA (Ancient small town) LEONIDION
Glyppia or Glumpia (Gluppia, Paus. iii. 22. § 8), a village of Laconia, situated
near the frontiers of Argolis. Glyppia is the name in Pausanias, who simply describes
it as situated in the interior above Marius. It appears to be the same place as
the fortress called Glumpeis by Polybius, who places it near the borders of the
Argeia and Laconia, and who relates that the Messenians were defeated here in
B.C. 218 by the Spartans, when they; were endeavouring, by a round--about march
from Tegea, to penetrate into the southern valley of the Eurotas. (Polyb. v. 20.)
It is also mentioned on another occasion by Polybius (iv. 36). The ancient town
is probably represented by the Hellenic remains at Lympiada, which is probably
a corruption of the ancient name. The district south of Lympiada is called Olympo-khoria,
which name would seem to indicate that, one of the mountains in the neighbourhood
bore the name of Olympus in ancient times. Leake indeed conjectures that Glumpia
was the ancient local form of Olumpia, and consequently that Lympiada and Olympo-khoria
may both originate in the same ancient name Olympia having the local form of Glympia.
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
MARIOS (Ancient city) LEONIDION
Marios. A town of Laconia, belonging in the time of Pausanias to the
Eleuthero-Lacones, was situated 100 stadia east of Geronthrae. It contained a
sanctuary of all the gods and, one of Artemis, and in each there were copious
springs of water. It is represented by Mari, which stands on the road from Gheraki
(Geronthrae) over the mountains to Kremasti; but, according to the French Commission,
its real distance from Geronthrae is from 75 to 80 stadia, and not 100, as is
stated by Pausanias. There are ruins of the ancient town about a mile and a half
to the south of the modern village, and the place is still characterised by its
abundant fountains.
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
POLICHNA (Ancient city) LEONIDION
Polichna. A town of Laconia, mentioned only by Polybius (iv. 36), is placed by Leake in the interior of the country on the eastern slope of Mt. Parnon at Reonda (Ta Hpeonta), where, among the ruins of a fortified town of the lower empire, are some remains of Hellenic walls.
PRASSIES (Ancient city) LEONIDION
Brasiae, Prasiai, Prasia, Brasiai, Eth. Brasiates, Prasieus. A town
on the eastern coast of Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the
Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia
by sea from Cyphanta. (Paus. iii. 24. § 3.) Scylax speaks of it as a city and
a harbour. The name of the town was derived by the inhabitants from the noise
of the waves (Brazein). It was burnt by the Athenians in the second year of the
Peloponnesian War, B.C. 430. (Thuc. ii. 56; Aristoph. Pac. 242.) Also in B.C.
414 the Athenians, in conjunction with the Argives, ravaged the coast near Prasiae.
(Thuc. vi. 105.) In the Macedonian period Prasiae, with other Laconian towns on
this coast, passed into the hands of the Argives (Polyb. iv. 36); whence Strabo
calls it one of the Argive towns (viii. p. 368), though in another passage he
says that it belonged at an earlier period to the Lacedaemonians (viii. p. 374).
It was restored to Laconia by Augustus, who made it one of the Eleuthero-Laconian
towns. (Paus. iii. 21. § 7, iii. 24. § 3.) Among the curiosities of Prasiae Pausanias
mentions a cave where Ino nursed Dionysus; a temple of Asclepius and another of
Achilles, and a small promontory upon which stood four brazen figures not more
than a foot in height. (Paus. iii. 24. §§ 4, 5.) Leake places Prasiae at St. Andrew
in the Thyreatis; but it more probably stood at Tyro, which is the site assigned
to it by Boblaye, Ross, and Curtius.
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
PRASSIES (Ancient city) LEONIDION
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