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LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Leuctrum (ta Leuktra, to Leuktron). A town of Laconia, situated on
the eastern side of the Messenian gulf, 20 stadia north of Pephnus, and 60 stadia
south of Cardamyle. Strabo speaks of Leuctrum as near the minor Pamisus, but this
river flows into the sea at Pephnus, about three miles south of Leuctrum. The
ruins of Leuctrum are still called Leftro. Leuctrum was said to have been founded
by Pelops, and was claimed by the Messenians as originally one of their towns.
It was awarded to the latter people by Philip in B.C. 338, but in the time of
the Roman empire it was one of the Eleuthero-Laconian places. Pausanias saw in
Leuctra a temple and statue of Athena on the Acropolis, a temple and statue of
Cassandra (there called Alexandra), a marble statue of Asclepius, another of Ino,
and wooden figures of Apollo Carneius.
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
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