Listed 100 (total found 158) sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "CORINTHIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
Their acropolis is precipitous on all sides, mostly so naturally, but a few parts have been artificially strengthened, to make it more secure.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
On the market-place, where most of the sanctuaries are, stand Artemis surnamed Ephesian and wooden images of Dionysus, which are covered with gold with the exception of their faces; these are ornamented with red paint.
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
After these (precincts) are altars to Helius.
ISTHMIA (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
There is also an ancient sanctuary called the altar of the Cyclopes, and they sacrifice to the Cyclopes upon it.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
After the hero-shrine of Aratus is an altar to Isthmian Poseidon.
Behind the sanctuary of Hera he (Adrastus) built an altar to Pan.
Behind the sanctuary of Hera he (Adrastus) built an altar to Pan, and one to Helius (Sun) made of white marble.
On one day in each year they celebrate a festival to them and offer sheep big with young as a burnt offering, and they are accustomed to use a libation of honey and water, and flowers instead of garlands. They practise similar rites at the altar of the Fates; it is in an open space in the grove.
TITANI (Ancient city) SIKYON
The sanctuary is built upon a hill, at the bottom of which is an Altar of the Winds, and on it the priest sacrifices to the winds one night in every year. He also performs other secret rites at four pits, taming the fierceness of the blasts, and he is said to chant as well charms of Medea.
HERAION (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
An oracle of Hera Acraea (i. e. the goddess of the hill-tops) was between Lechaeon and Pagae, on the gulf of Corinth (Strabo, viii. p. 380).
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
After these (precicts) are altars to Helius, and a sanctuary of Necessity and Force, into which it is not customary to enter.
Here, too, is the temple of Hera Bunaea set up by Bunus the son of Hermes. It is for this reason that the goddess is called Bunaea.
When you have turned from the Acrocorinthus into the mountain road you see the Teneatic gate and a sanctuary of Eilethyia.
FELOI (Ancient city) EVROSTINA
There are sanctuaries of Dionysus and of Artemis. The image of Dionysus is painted with vermilion.
There are sanctuaries of Dionysus and of Artemis. The goddess is of bronze, and is taking an arrow from her quiver.
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
There stands also a bronze Poseidon, surnamed Horse, whose image, it is said, was dedicated by Odysseus. The legend is that Odysseus lost his mares, traversed Greece in search of them, and on the site in the land of Pheneus where he found his mares founded a sanctuary of Artemis, calling the goddess Horse-finder, and also dedicated the image of Horse Poseidon. When Odysseus found his mares he was minded, it is said, to keep horses in the land of Pheneus, just as he reared his cows, they say, on the mainland opposite Ithaca. On the base of the image the people of Pheneus pointed out to me writing, purporting to be instructions of Odysseus to those tending his mares.
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The people of Pheneus have also a sanctuary of Demeter, surnamed Eleusinian, and they perform a ritual to the goddess, saying that the ceremonies at Eleusis are the same as those established among themselves. Beside the sanctuary of the Eleusinian has been set up Petroma, as it is called, consisting of two large stones fitted one to the other.When every other year they celebrate what they call the Greater Rites, they open these stones. They take from out them writings that refer to the rites, read them in the hearing of the initiated, and return them on the same night. Most Pheneatians, too, I know, take an oath by the Petroma in the most important affairs. On the top is a sphere, with a mask inside of Demeter Cidaria. This mask is put on by the priest at the Greater Rites, who for some reason or other beats with rods the Folk Underground.
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FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
On the Phliasian citadel is a grove of cypress trees and a sanctuary which from ancient times has been held to be peculiarly holy. The earliest Phliasians named the goddess to whom the sanctuary belongs Ganymeda; but later authorities call her Hebe. All those who seek sanctuary here receive full forgiveness, and prisoners, when set free, dedicate their fetters on the trees in the grove. The Phliasians also celebrate a yearly festival which they call Ivy-cutters. There is no image, either kept in secret or openly displayed, and the reason for this is set forth in a sacred legend of theirs.
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On the citadel is another enclosure, which is sacred to Demeter, and in it are a temple and statue of Demeter and her daughter. Here there is also a bronze statue of Artemis, which appeared to me to be ancient.
Below this temple is built a theater. Not far from it is a sanctuary of Demeter and old, seated images.
Farther on from the Omphalos they have an old sanctuary of Dionysus, a sanctuary of Apollo, and one of Isis. The image of Dionysus is visible to all, and so also is that of Apollo, but the image of Isis only the priests may behold.
Farther on from the Omphalos they have an old sanctuary of Dionysus, a sanctuary of Apollo, and one of Isis. The image of Dionysus is visible to all, and so also is that of Apollo, but the image of Isis only the priests may behold.
Farther on from the Omphalos they have an old sanctuary of Dionysus, a sanctuary of Apollo, and one of Isis. The image of Dionysus is visible to all, and so also is that of Apollo, but the image of Isis only the priests may behold.
ISTHMIA (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
Within the sanctuary of the god stand on the one side portrait statues of athletes who have won victories at the Isthmian games, on the other side pine trees growing in a row, the greater number of them rising up straight. On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons.
Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself. There is also what is called his Holy of Holies, and an underground descent to it, where they say that Palaemon is concealed. Whosoever, whether Corinthian or stranger, swears falsely here, can by no means escape from his oath.
KECHREES (Ancient city) KORINTHOS
In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis.
In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite, after it on the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon, and at the other end of the harbor sanctuaries of Asclepius and of Isis.
KLEONES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Here there is a sanctuary of Athena, and the image is a work of Scyllis and Dipoenus. Some hold them to have been the pupils of Daedalus, but others will have it that Daedalus took a wife from Gortyn, and that Dipoenus and Scyllis were his sons by this woman.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws.
There is also a temple of Fortune, with a standing image of Parian marble. Beside it is a sanctuary for all the gods.
Moreover near Peirene are an image and a sacred enclosure of Apollo; in the latter is a painting of the exploit of Odysseus against the suitors.
Medea, as her children were born, carried each to the sanctuary of Hera and concealed them, doing so in the belief that so they would be immortal. At last she learned that her hopes were vain.
Not far from the tomb of Medea’s children is the temple of Athena Chalinitis (Bridler). For Athena, they say, was the divinity who gave most help to Bellerophontes, and she delivered to him Pegasus, having herself broken in and bridled him. The image of her is of wood, but face, hands and feet are of white marble.
Above the theater is a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed in the Latin tongue Capitolinus, which might be rendered into Greek "Coryphaeos".
LECHEON (Ancient port) CORINTHIA
In Lechaeum are a sanctuary and a bronze image of Poseidon.
MYSSEON (Ancient city) TRIKALA KORINTHIAS
Sanctuary of Aesculapius, near Pellene.
ORNIES (Ancient city) NEMEA
At Orneae are a sanctuary and an upright wooden image of Artemis.
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
Opposite the grove of the Saviour is a sanctuary of Dionysus surnamed Torch. In his honor they celebrate a festival called the Feast of Torches, when they bring by night firebrands into the sanctuary, and set up bowls of wine throughout the whole city.
There is also at Pellene a sanctuary of Apollo, the Strangers' God, and the image is made of bronze.
Pellene has also a sanctuary of Eileithyia, which is situated in the lesser portion of the city.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at Athens, at Ephesus, at Megara, at Sicyon.
On the modern citadel is a sanctuary of Fortune of the Height, and after it one of the Dioscuri. Their images and that of Fortune are of wood.
On the modern citadel is a sanctuary of Fortune of the Height, and after it one of the Dioscuri. Their images and that of Fortune are of wood.
Within the market-place is a sanctuary of Persuasion; this too has no image.
Hard by is a sanctuary of Apollo Lycius (Wolf-god), now fallen into ruins and not worth any attention. For wolves once so preyed upon their flocks that there was no longer any profit therefrom, and the god, mentioning a certain place where lay a dry log, gave an oracle that the bark of this log mixed with meat was to be set out for the beasts to eat. As soon as they tasted it the bark killed them, and that log lay in my time in the sanctuary of the Wolf-god, but not even the guides of the Sicyonians knew what kind of tree it was.
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There is also in another place a sanctuary of Heracles. The whole of the enclosure here they name Paedize; in the middle of the enclosure is the sanctuary, and in it is an old wooden figure carved by Laphaes the Phliasian. I will now describe the ritual at the festival.
From here is a way to a sanctuary of Asclepius. On passing into the enclosure you see on the left a building with two rooms. In the outer room lies a figure of Sleep, of which nothing remains now except the head. The inner room is given over to the Carnean Apollo; into it none may enter except the priests. In the portico lies a huge bone of a sea-monster, and after it an image of the Dream-god and Sleep, surnamed Epidotes (Bountiful), lulling to sleep a lion. Within the sanctuary on either side of the entrance is an image, on the one hand Pan seated, on the other Artemis standing.
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After this (the sanctuary of Asclepius) is the sanctuary of Aphrodite, into which enter only a female verger, who after her appointment may not have intercourse with a man, and a virgin, called the Bath-bearer, holding her sacred office for a year. All others are wont to behold the goddess from the entrance, and to pray from that place. The image, which is seated, was made by the Sicyonian Canachus, who also fashioned the Apollo at Didyma of the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans. It is made of gold and ivory, having on its head a polos, and carrying in one hand a poppy and in the other an apple. They offer the thighs of the victims, excepting pigs; the other parts they burn for the goddess with juniper wood, but as the thighs are burning they add to the offering a leaf of the paideros.
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Ascending from here to the gymnasium you see in the right a sanctuary of Artemis Pheraea. It is said that the wooden image was brought from Pherae.
They say that the neighboring sanctuary of Artemis and Apollo was also made by Epopeus, and that of Hera after it by Adrastus. I found no images remaining in either.
They say that the neighboring sanctuary of Artemis and Apollo was also made by Epopeus, and that of Hera after it by Adrastus. I found no images remaining in either.
On the way down to the plain is a sanctuary of Demeter, said to have been founded by Plemnaeis as a thank-offering to the goddess for the rearing of his son.
On the direct road from Sicyon to Phlius, on the left of the road and just about ten stades from it, is a grove called Pyraea, and in it a sanctuary of Hera Protectress and the Maid. Here the men celebrate a festival by themselves, giving up to the women the temple called Nymphon for the purposes of their festival. In the Nymphon are images of Dionysus, Demeter, and the Maid, with only their faces exposed.
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STYMFALOS (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
In Stymphalus there is also an old sanctuary of Stymphalian Artemis, the image being of wood, for the most part gilded. Near the roof of the temple have been carved, among other things, the Stymphalian birds. Now it was difficult to discern clearly whether the carving was in wood or in gypsum, but such evidence as I had led me to conclude that it was not of gypsum but of wood. There are here also maidens of white marble, with the legs of birds, and they stand behind the temple.
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TITANI (Ancient city) SIKYON
One cannot learn of what wood or metal the image is, nor do they know the name of the maker, though one or two attribute it to Alexanor himself. Of the image can be seen only the face, hands, and feet, for it has about it a tunic of white wool and a cloak. There is a similar image of Health; this, too, one cannot see easily because it is so surrounded with the locks of women. There are images also of Alexanor and of Euamerion; There is also a wooden image of Coronis, but it has no fixed position anywhere in the temple. While to the god are being sacrificed a bull, a lamb, and a pig, they remove Coronis to the sanctuary of Athena and honor her there. The parts of the victims which they offer as a burnt sacrifice, and they are not content with cutting out the thighs, they burn on the ground, except the birds, which they burn on the altar.In the gable at the ends are figures of Heracles and of Victories.
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In Titane there is also a sanctuary of Athena, into which they bring up the image of Coronis. In it is an old wooden figure of Athena, and I was told that it, too, was struck by lightning. The sanctuary is built upon a hill.
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
As you go down from the acropolis of Pheneus you come to a stadium.
ISTHMIA (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
Worth seeing here are a theater and a white-marble race-course.
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
On the market-place is a votive offering, a bronze she-goat for the most part covered with gold. The following is the reason why it has received honors among the Phliasians. The constellation which they call the Goat on its rising causes continual damage to the vines. In order that they may suffer nothing unpleasant from it, the Phliasians pay honors to the bronze goat on the market-place and adorn the image with gold.
The Phliasians tell also the following legend. When Heracles came back safe from Libya, bringing the apples of the Hesperides, as they were called, he visited Phlius on some private matter. While he was staying there Oeneus came to him from Aetolia. He had already allied himself to the family of Heracles, and after his arrival on this occasion either he entertained Heracles or Heracles entertained him. Be this as it may, displeased with the drink given him Heracles struck on the head with one of his fingers the boy Cyathus, the cup-bearer of Oeneus, who died on the spot from the blow. A chapel keeps the memory of the deed fresh among the Phliasians; it is built by the side of the sanctuary of Apollo, and it contains statues made of stone representing Cyathus holding out a cup to Heracles.
Laphaes of Phlius, a statuary of the early period of Greek art. His wooden statue of Heracles at Sicyon is mentioned by Pausanias (ii. 10.1), who also conjectured that the colossal wooden statue of Apollo, at Aegeira in Achaia, was the work of the same artist, from the resenmblance in style between it and the Heracles (vii. 26. 3, or 6).
ISTHMIA (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
Within the sanctuary of the god (Poseidon) stand on the one side portrait statues
of athletes who have won victories at the Isthmian games, on the other side pine
trees growing in a row, the greater number of them rising up straight. On the
temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are
images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze.
The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes the Athenian, four
horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons
beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite
and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too
are made of ivory and gold. On the middle of the base on which the car is has
been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the
nymphs called Nereids. I know that there are altars to these in other parts of
Greece, and that some Greeks have even dedicated to them precincts by shores,
where honors are also paid to Achilles. In Gabala is a holy sanctuary of Doto,
where there was still remaining the robe by which the Greeks say that Eriphyle
was bribed to wrong her son Alcmaeon. Among the reliefs on the base of the statue
of Poseidon are the sons of Tyndareus, because these too are saviours of ships
and of sea-faring men. The other offerings are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse
like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus.
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KECHREES (Ancient city) KORINTHOS
On the mole running into the sea a bronze image of Poseidon.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
On the market-place, where most of the sanctuaries are, stand Artemis surnamed Ephesian and wooden images of Dionysus, which are covered with gold with the exception of their faces; these are ornamented with red paint.
On the market-place are wooden images of Dionysus, which are covered with gold with the exception of their faces; these are ornamented with red paint. They are called Lysius and Baccheus, and I too give the story told about them. They say that Pentheus treated Dionysus despitefully, his crowning outrage being that he went to Cithaeron, to spy upon the women, and climbing up a tree beheld what was done. When the women detected Pentheus, they immediately dragged him down, and joined in tearing him, living as he was, limb from limb. Afterwards, as the Corinthians say, the Pythian priestess commanded them by an oracle to discover that tree and to worship it equally with the god. For this reason they have made these images from the tree.
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There is also a bronze Apollo surnamed Clarius.
There is also a bronze Apollo surnamed Clarius and a statue of Aphrodite made by Hermogenes of Cythera.
There are two bronze, standing images of Hermes, for one of which a temple has been made.
The images of Zeus also are in the open; one had not a surname, another they call Chthonius (of the Lower World) and the third Most High.
In the middle of the market-place is a bronze Athena, on the pedestal of which are wrought in relief figures of the Muses.
A little farther away from the gateway, on the right as you go in, is a bronze Heracles.
Proceeding on the direct road to Lechaeum we see a bronze image of a seated Hermes. By him stands a ram, for Hermes is the god who is thought most to care for and to increase flocks.
After the image of Hermes come Poseidon, Leucothea, and Palaemon on a dolphin.
The sanctuary of Athena Chalinitis is by the theater of Corinth, and near it is a naked wooden image of Herakles, said to be by Daidalos. All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
As you go to Pellene there is, by the roadside, an image of Hermes, who, in spite of his surname of Crafty, is ready to fulfill the prayers of men. He is of square shape and bearded, and on his head is carved a cap.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
In the market-place under the open sky is a bronze Zeus, a work of Lysippus,7 and by the side of it a gilded Artemis.
In the market-place under the open sky is a bronze Zeus, a work of Lysippus, and by the side of it a gilded Artemis.
Here there is a bronze Heracles, made by Lysippus the Sicyonian.
Here there is a bronze Heracles, made by Lysippus the Sicyonian, and hard by stands Hermes of the Market-place.
In the gymnasium not far from the market-place is dedicated a stone Heracles made by Scopas.
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
Above it are a temple of the Mother of the gods and a throne; the image and the throne are made of stone.
The temple of the Fates and that of Demeter and the Maid have images that are not exposed to view.
The temple of the Fates and that of Demeter and the Maid have images that are not exposed to view.
On the summit of the Acrocorinthus is a temple of Aphrodite. The images are Aphrodite armed, Helius, and Eros with a bow.
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
On the acropolis here is a temple of Athena surnamed Tritonia, but of it I found ruins only remaining.
Of the gods the people of Pheneus worship most Hermes, in whose honor they celebrate the games called Hermaea; they have also a temple of Hermes, and a stone image, made by an Athenian, Eucheir the son of Eubulides.
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
On the left as you go out is a temple of Hera with an image of Parian marble.
As you go down from the citadel you see on the right a temple of Asclepius with an image of the god as a beardless youth.
GOURA (Village) FENEOS
As you go from Pheneus to Pellene and Aegeira, an Achaean city, after about fifteen stades you come to a temple of Pythian Apollo. I found there only its ruins, which include a large altar of white marble. Here even now the Pheneatians still sacrifice to Apollo and Artemis, and they say that the sanctuary was made by Heracles after capturing Elis.
ISTHMIA (Ancient sanctuary) LOUTRAKI-PERACHORA
On the temple, which is not very large, stand bronze Tritons. In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze. The offerings inside were dedicated in our time by Herodes the Athenian, four horses, gilded except for the hoofs, which are of ivory, and two gold Tritons beside the horses, with the parts below the waist of ivory. On the car stand Amphitrite and Poseidon, and there is the boy Palaemon upright upon a dolphin. These too are made of ivory and gold. On the middle of the base on which the car is has been wrought a Sea holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the nymphs called Nereids. Among the reliefs on the base of the statue of Poseidon are the sons of Tyndareus. The other offerings are images of Calm and of Sea, a horse like a whale from the breast onward, Ino and Bellerophontes, and the horse Pegasus.
Within the enclosure is on the left a temple of Palaemon, with images in it of Poseidon, Leucothea and Palaemon himself.
KECHREES (Ancient city) KORINTHOS
In Cenchreae are a temple and a stone statue of Aphrodite.
On the road leading from the Isthmus to Cenchreae a temple and ancient wooden image of Artemis.
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
Here are a precinct of Bellerophontes, a temple of Aphrodite Melaenis and the grave of Lais, upon which is set a lioness holding a ram in her fore-paws.
There is also a temple of Fortune, with a standing image of Parian marble.
Above the market-place is a temple of Octavia the sister of Augustus, who was emperor of the Romans after Caesar, the founder of the modern Corinth.
As you go along another road from the market-place, which leads to Sicyon, you can see on the right of the road a temple and bronze image of Apollo.
By this gymnasium are temples of Zeus and Asclepius. The images of Asclepius and of Health are of white marble, that of Zeus is of bronze.
By this gymnasium are temples of Zeus and Asclepius. The images of Asclepius and of Health are of white marble, that of Zeus is of bronze.
KYLLINI (Mountain) CORINTHIA
After the grave of Aepytus you come to the highest mountain in Arcadia, Cyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Cyllenian Hermes. In days of old, men made wooden images, so far as I have been able to discover, from the following trees ebony, cypress, cedar, oak, yew, lotus. But the image of Cyllenian Hermes is made of none of these, but of juniper wood. Its height, I conjecture, is about eight feet.
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