Listed 24 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "EPIDAVROS LIMIRAS Province LACONIA" .
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
They also say that a snake, which they were bringing from their home in Epidaurus, escaped from the ship, and disappeared into the ground not far from the sea. As a result of the portent of the snake together with the vision in their dreams they resolved to remain and settle here. There are altars to Asclepius where the snake disappeared, with olive trees growing round them.
KYFAS (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
After an ascent of ten stades inland are the ruins of the so-called Cyphanta, among which is a cave sacred to Asclepius; the image is of stone.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Assopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and about twelve stades inland from the city is a sanctuary of Asclepius. They call the god Philolaus.
On the citadel is also a sanctuary of Athena, surnamed Kyparissia (Cypress Goddess).
ELAFONISSOS (Island) PELOPONNISOS
Two hundred stades from Assopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which they call Onugnathus (Jaw of an Ass). Here is a sanctuary of Athena, having neither image nor roof. Agamemnon is said to have made it.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
ITI (Ancient city) VOION
The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. Among the ruins is a not insignificant sanctuary of Asclepius and Health.
YPERTELEATON (Ancient sanctuary) ASSOPOS
There is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum.
ITI (Ancient city) VOION
The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes.
NYMFEON (Ancient port) VOION
On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of Poseidon standing.
AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
About eighty stades beyond Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city on the coast.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Assopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
VIES (Ancient city) VOION
In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo.
In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo, and in another part of the town are temples of Asclepius.
In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo, and in another part of the town are temples of Asclepius, of Serapis, and of Isis.
In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo, and in another part of the town are temples of Asclepius, of Serapis, and of Isis.
ZARAX (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
There is nothing in Zarax except a temple of Apollo, with a statue holding a lyre, at the head of the harbor.
ELAFONISSOS (Island) PELOPONNISOS
Two hundred stades from Assopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which they call Onugnathus (Jaw of an Ass). Here is a sanctuary of Athena, having neither image nor roof. Agamemnon is said to have made it. There is also the tomb of Cinadus, one of the pilots of the ship of Menelaus.
KYFAS (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
There is a fountain of cold water springing from the rock, where they say that Atalanta, distressed by thirst when hunting, struck the rock with her spear, so that the water gushed forth.
AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
The people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals carried off five prizes for running. There has been raised to him a monument between the gymnasium and the wall by the harbor.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
The bones in the gymnasium, which they worship, are human, although of superhuman size.
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