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AGIOS FLOROS (Village) ARFARA
(Paus. 4,31,4). The spring of Pamisos is in Agios Floros (Ekdot. Ath., Pausanias' Periegisis, vol. 3, p.109, note 2).
DORISKOS (Ancient city) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Serrheum: a promontory in Thrace near Doriscus: Hdt. 7.59
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
At Pheneus contains writings on mysteries, oath by P.
KANDILA (Village) LEVIDI
The rain-water, flowing through a deep gully between the city and Mount Trachy, descends to another Orchomenian plain, which is very considerable in extent, but the greater part of it is a lake.
MANTHYREA (Ancient city) TEGEA
In Arcadia.
NASSIA (Village) KALAVRYTA
Place in Arcadia beside river Ladon (Paus. 8,25,2). The village has maintained the ancient name of the place.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
They say that the place now occupied by Lake Copais was formerly dry ground, and that it was tilled in all kinds of ways when it was subject to the Orchomenians, who lived near it. And this fact, accordingly, is adduced as an evidence of their wealth (Strab. 9.2.40).
PAROS (Island) KYKLADES
There is also an Asopus that flows past Thebes and Plataea and Tanagra, and there is another in the Trachinian Heracleia that flows past a village which they call Parasopii, and there is a fourth in Paros. (Strabo 8,6,24)
A mountain in Paros, from which the celebrated Parian marble was obtained. Hence Vergil speaks of Marpesia cautes
PELLANA (Mycenean settlement) PELANA
Remarkable sights I remember seeing here were a sanctuary of Asclepius and the spring Pellanis. Into it they say a maiden fell when she was drawing water, and when she had disappeared the veil on her head reappeared in another spring, Lancia.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
...and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus.
SKOPI (Village) TRIPOLI
Place near Mantinea.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Place at Sparta.
Place in Sparta.
And there is a place called Platanistas (Plane-tree Grove) from the unbroken ring of tall plane trees growing round it. The place itself, where it is customary for the youths to fight, is surrounded by a moat just like an island in the sea; you enter it by bridges.
Fountain at Sparta.
Street in Sparta, origin of name.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, only the district got its name from him, and that the inhabitants dwelt in parishes, Gareatae, Phylacenses, Caryatae, Corythenses, Potachidae, Oeatae, Manthyrenses, Echeuethenses. But in the reign of Apheidas a ninth parish was added to them, namely Apheidantes.
The lofty place, on which are most of the altars of the Tegeans, is called the place of Zeus Clarius (Of Lots), and it is plain that the god got his surname from the lots cast for the sons of Arcas. Here the Tegeans celebrate a feast every year. It is said that once at the time of the feast they were invaded by the Lacedaemonians. As it was snowing, these were chilled, and thus distressed by their armour, but the Tegeans, without their enemies knowing it, lighted a fire. So untroubled by the cold they donned, they say, their armour, went out against the Lacedaemonians, and had the better of the engagement.
VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
Peak of Mountain Taygetus, sacred to Sun, SW of Brysae
ACHAIA (Ancient country) GREECE
River of Achaia, of Argolis, of Messenia, of Phocis.
River of Achaia.
River of Achaia.
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Chelonatas (Chelonatas), a promontory of Achaia, and the most westerly
point of the Peloponnesus, distant, according to Pliny, two miles from Cyllene.
(Strab. viii. pp. 335, 338, 342; Paus. i. 2. § 4; Agathem. i. 5; Plin. iv. 5.
s. 6; Mel. ii. 3.) It has been disputed whether Chelonatas corresponds to C. Glarentza
(Klarentza) or to C. Tornese, both of them being promontories of the peninsula
of Khlemutzi. There can be little doubt, however, that C. Tornese, the most southerly
of the two, is the ancient Chelonatas, both because there is near it the small
island mentioned by Strabo, and because it is distant two miles from Glarentza,
the ancient Cyllene. It is probable, however, that the name Chelonatas was originally
given to the whole peninsula of Khlemutzi, from its supposed resemblance to a
tortoise. (Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 210.)
ACHILLION (Ancient port) ANATOLIKI MANI
The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius.(Perseus Encyclopedia)
AKAKISSION (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
After crossing the river it is two stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to the hill called Acacesian Hill. At the foot of this hill used to be a city Acacesium.
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
The peninsula is Pallene . . . has an isthmus five stadia in width, through which a canal is cut. On the isthmus is situated a city founded by the Corinthians, which in earlier times was called Potidaea
AKRA (Settlement) TEGEA
Hill near Tegea.
AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
Spring at Corinth, daughter of Achelous or of Oebalus, identified by some with spring on Acro-Corinth, bronze dipped in it.
ALALKOMENES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Triton. A river, a small torrent. They call it Triton, because the story is that beside a river Triton Athena was reared.(Paus. 9.33.7)
ALFIOS (River) ILIA
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus
Tributary of Alpheus, divides territories of Megapolis and Heraea.
River of Arcadia, tributary of Alpheus, also called Lusius.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
River of Arcadia, tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
Tributary of Alpheus.
River of Arcadia.
River of Elis.
River at Olympia, tributary of Alpheus, most honoured by Eleans after Alpheus, figure of, altar of.
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Not far from it is a sanctuary of Dionysus Leucyanites, whereby flows a river Leucyanias. This river too is a tributary of the Alpheius; it descends from Mount Pholoe.
ALIAKMON (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Herodotus in making the river the frontier between Bottiaiis and Makedonis, seems to be in error, as in uniting the Haliakmon with the Lydias
ALIFIRA (Ancient city) ILIA
Fountain at Aliphera.
ALOS (Ancient city) MAGNESSIA
Amphrysus (Amphrusos). A small river in Thessaly, rising in Mt. Others and flowing
near Alus into the Pagasaean gulf. It is celebrated in mythology as the river
on the banks of which Apollo fed the flocks of king Admetus. (Strab. pp. 433,
435; Apoll. Rhod. i. 54; Virg. Georg. iii. 2; Ov. Met. i. 580, vii. 229; Leake
Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 337.) Hence the adjective Amphrysius is used in reference
to Apollo. Thus Virgil (Aen. vi. 398) calls the Sibyl Amphrysia vates. Statius
(Silv. i. 4. 105) uses the adjective Amphrysiacus in the same sense.
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AMVRAKIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
The River Aratthus flows past Ambracia; it is navigable inland for only a few stadia, from the sea to Ambracia, although it rises in Mount Tymphe and the Paroraea.
ANAGYRUS (Ancient demos) VARI
Zoster. Now Cape of Vari; a promontory on the west of Attica, between Phalerum and Sunium.
ANAVALOS (Spring) LERNA
Spring of fresh water in sea.
To the S. of Kyveri begins the rugged road across the mountains, anciently called Anigraea (Anigraia), running along the west into the plain of Thyrea. (Paus. ii. 38. § 4, seq.) Shortly before descending into the Thyreatic plain, the traveller arrives opposite the Anavolos (Anabolos), which is a copious source of fresh water rising in the sea, at a quarter of a mile from the narrow beach under the cliffs. Leake observed that it rose with such force as to form a convex surface, and to disturb the sea for several hundred feet round. It is evidently the exit of a subterraneous river of some magnitude, and thus corresponds with the Dine (Dine) of the ancients, which, according to Pausanias (viii. 7. § 2), is the outlet of the waters of the Argon Pedion in the Mantinice. (Leake, vol. ii. p. 469, seq.; Ross, p. 148, seq.)
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ANDROS (Island) KYKLADES
a harbor in the island of Andros, Liv. 31, 45.
ARACHAMITES (Village) VALTETSI
Stream in Arcadia.
ARGOLIS (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
(Lukone), a mountain of Argolis, on the road from Argos to Tegea. (Paus. ii. 24.
§ 6.)
ARGOS AMFILOCHIKON (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
A river in the territory of Argos Amphilochicum.
ARGYRA (Ancient city) RIO
A spring.
ARKADIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
Mountain of Arcadia.
ARTEMISSION (Ancient city) ISTIEA
Artemisium (Artemision). The name of the northern coast and of a promontory of Euboea, immediately opposite the Thessalian Magnesia, so called from the temple of Artemis Proseoa, belonging to the town of Histiaea. It was off this coast that the Grecian fleet fought with the fleet of Xerxes, B.C. 480. (Herod. vii. 175, viii. 8; Plut. Them. 7; Diod. xi. 12.)
ASSOPOS (Municipality) LACONIA
Situated on the foothill of the rocky cape Xili. The year of its establishment is still unknown, as well as the origin of its colonists. We can calculate the time of year of its establishment, on the Copper Age or the Neolithic Age, before the city of Kyparissia, because in the area there have been found objects which are identified as being from the Ages which we mentioned before.
ASTROS (Port) ARCADIA
Astrum (Astron: Astro). A town in Cynuria on the coast, and the first town in Argolis towards the frontiers of Laconia. It is mentioned by Ptolemy alone (iii. 16. § 11), but is conjectured by Leake to have been the maritime fortress in the building of which the Aeginetae were interrupted by the Athenians in the eighth year of the Peloponnesian war. (Thuc. iv. 57.) The place was situated on a promontory, which retains its ancient name. Here there are still considerable remains of an ancient wall. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 484, seq.; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 162.)
ATHAMANIA (Ancient area) EPIRUS
A town of Athamania in Epeirus, where the royal treasures were kept. (Liv. xxxviii. 1.)
ATHENS (Ancient city) GREECE
Street at Athens.
Gate at Athens.
Hill at Athens where Musaeus is buried, garrisoned by Demetrius, captured by Athenians, garrisoned by Macedonians.
Limnae (Limnai), was a district to the south of the Acropolis, in which the temple of Dionysus was situated. (Thuc. ii. 15.) It was not a demus, as stated by the Scholiast on Callimachus (H. in Del. 172), who has mistaken the Limnae of Messenia for the Limnae of Athens.
AXIOS (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Astycus (Astupalaia : Vravnitza, or river of Istib), a river of Paeonia, flowing into the Axius, on which was situated the residence of the Paeonian kings. (Polyaen. Strat. iv. 12; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 464, 475.)
CHALKIS (Ancient city) EVIA
A fountain close to Chalcis in Euboea, which was sometimes disturbed by volcanic
agency. Dicaearchus says that its water was so abundant as to be sufficient to
supply the whole city with water. (Dicaearch. Bios tes Hellados, p. 146, ed. Fuhr;
Strab. i. p. 58, x. p. 449; Eurip. Iphig. in Aul. 170; Plin. iv. 12.) There were
tame fish kept in this fountain. (Athen. viii. p. 331, e. f.) Leake says that
this celebrated fountain has now totally disappeared. (Northern Greece, vol. ii.
p. 255.)
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
The northwestern promontory of the island of Chios.
A promontory of Chios.
Ariusia (Ariousia). A district on the north coast of Chios, famous for its wine.
CHRYSSORACHI (Village) IOANNINA
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CRETE (Island) GREECE
Iardanus (Iardanos), a river on the N. coast of Crete, near the banks
of which the Cydonians dwelt. (Hom. Od. iii. 292.) It is identified with the rapid
stream of the Platania, which rises in the White Mountains, and, after flowing
between the Rhizite villages of Theriso and Laki or Lakus, runs through a valley
formed by low hills, and filled with lofty platanes; from which it obtains its
name. The river of Platania falls into the sea, nearly opposite the islet of Haghios
Theodhoros, where there is good anchorage. (Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 22 ; Hock,
Kreta, vol. i. pp. 23, 384.)
DAVLIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
In the territory of Daulis is a place called Tronis. Here has been built a shrine of the Founder hero. This founder is said by some to have been Xanthippus, a distinguished soldier; others say that he was Phocus, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphus. At any rate, he is worshipped every day, and the Phocians bring victims and pour the blood into the grave through a hole, but the flesh they are wont to consume on the spot.
The Cleft Road (on which Oedipus slew his father) and the rash deed committed on it by Oedipus were the beginning of his troubles, and the tombs of Laius and the servant who followed him are still just as they were in the very middle of the place where the three roads meet, and over them have been piled unhewn stones. According to the story, it was Damasistratus, king of Plataea, who found the bodies lying and buried them.
DELFI (Ancient sanctuary) FOKIDA
Schiste (he schiste hodos, the name of the road leading from Delphi
into Central Greece, was more particularly applied to the spot where the road
divided into two, and which was called treis keleuthoi, reckoning the road to
Delphi as one of the three. Of the other two roads, the NE. led to Daulis; the
SE. parted into two, one leading to Trachis and Lebadeia, the other to Ambrysus
and Stiris. At the spot where the three roads met was the tomb of Laius and his
servant, who were here slain by Oedipus. It must have stood at the entrance of
the Zimeno Derveni, or opening between the mountains Cirphis and Parnassus, which
leads to Delphi. The road from this point becomes very steep and rugged towards
Delphi, as Pausanias has described it. (Aeschyl. Oed. Tyr. 733; Eurip. Phoen.
38; Paus. ix. 2. § 4, x. 5. § 3; leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 105.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DELOS (Island) KYKLADES
A mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, who were hence called Cynthius and Cynthia respectively.
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