Listed 8 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "KRESTENA Small town ILIA" .
SAMIKON (Ancient city) ILIA
There is in Samicum a cave not far from the river, and called the Cave of the Anigrid Nymphs. Whoever enters it suffering from alphos or leuke first has to pray to the nymphs and to promise some sacrifice or other, after which he wipes the unhealthy parts of his body. Then, swimming through the river, he leaves his old uncleanness in its water, coming up sound and of one color.
At the base of these mountains, on the seaboard, are two caves. One is the cave of the nymphs called Anigriades; the other is the scene of the stories of the daughters of Atlas and of the birth of Dardanus. And here, too, are the sacred precincts called the Ionaeum and the Eurycydeium.
Then comes the mountain of Triphylia that separates Macistia
from Pisatis; then another river called Chalcis, and a spring called Cruni, and
a settlement called Chalcis, and, after these, Samicum, where is the most highly
revered temple of the Samian Poseidon. About the temple is a sacred precinct full
of wild olive trees. The people of Macistum used to have charge over it; and it
was they, too, who used to proclaim the armistice day called "Samian." But all
the Triphylians contribute to the maintenance of the temple.
TYPANEES (Ancient city) ILIA
The Acheron has been so named by virtue of its close relation
to Hades; for, as we know, not only the temples of Demeter and Core have been
held in very high honor there, but also those of Hades, perhaps because of "the
contrariness of the soil," to use the phrase of Demetrius of Scepsis. For while
Triphylia brings forth good fruit, it breeds red-rust and produces rush; and therefore
in this region it is often the case that instead of a large crop there is no crop
at all.
FRIZA (Ancient city) SKILOUNTA
In this district is a hill rising to a sharp peak, on which are the ruins of the city of Phrixa, as well as a temple of Athena surnamed Cydonian. This temple is not entire, but the altar is still there. The sanctuary was founded for the goddess, they say, by Clymenus.
SKILLOUS (Ancient city) ILIA
Xenophon having made Scillus his home built in honor of Ephesian Artemis a temple with a sanctuary and a sacred enclosure.
The temple of Athene Scilluntia at Scillus, in the neighborhood of Olympia near Phellon, is one of the famous temples.
At a little distance from the sanctuary was shown a tomb, and upon the grave is a statue of marble from the Pentelic quarry. The neighbors say that it is the tomb of Xenophon.
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