Listed 7 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for destination: "LEFKTRA Ancient city MESSINIA".
The inhabitants honor Asclepius most of the gods. There is a stone statue of Asclepius.
There is a stone statue of Asclepius, and of Ino in another place.
There are wooden images of Apollo Carneius according to the same custom that prevails among the Lacedaemonians of Sparta.
I record an event which I know to have taken place in my time on the coast of Leuctra. A fire carried by the wind into a wood destroyed most of the trees, and when the place showed bare, a statue of Zeus of Ithome was found to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedaemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Also a temple and statue have been erected to Cassandra the daughter of Priam, called Alexandra by the natives.
On the acropolis is a sanctuary and image of Athena.
There is a temple and grove of Eros in Leuctra. Water flows through the grove in winter-time, but the leaves which are shaken from the trees by the wind would not be carried away by the water even in flood.
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