Listed 43 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "CORINTHIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
At Pheneus contains writings on mysteries, oath by P.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
...and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus.
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
Spring at Corinth, daughter of Achelous or of Oebalus, identified by some with spring on Acro-Corinth, bronze dipped in it.
EFYRA (Homeric city) CORINTHIA
there is another River Selleeis near Sicyon, and near the river a village Ephyra
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
Place at boundary between Pellene and Pheneus.
FLIASIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
It was famous for its wines (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 2, p. 114, note 6).
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
It was on that hill that Aras had built Arantia, which later took the name Phlious. Pausanias saw the graves of Aras' children on that same hill.
Not far away is what is called the Omphalos (Navel), the center of all the Peloponnesus, if they speak the truth about it.
KORINTHIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
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KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
A grove of cypresses near Corinth.
Not far from this theater is the ancient gymnasium, and a spring called Lerna. Pillars stand around it, and seats have been made to refresh in summer time those who have entered it.
Peirene. The spring struck out by the winged steed Pegasus on the citadel of Corinth. It is also said to have sprung from Pirene, daughter of Oebalus, who melted into tears in sorrow for the loss of her son Cenchrias, accidentally slain by Artemis. It flowed from a rock in the Acrocorinthus, and was conveyed by subterranean conduits down the hill to a marble reservoir, from which the city received a great part of its watersupply.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
Cited Sept 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
Pirene (2): Perseus Encyclopedia
Pirene: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
KYLLINI (Mountain) CORINTHIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
MATI (Village) FENEOS
Mountains of Arcadia.
After the boundaries of the cities I have mentioned lies a ravine, and the road to Pheneus leads through it. Just about the middle of the ravine water rises up from a spring, and at the end of the ravine is a place called Caryae.
Place near Pheneus.
MYSSEON (Ancient city) TRIKALA KORINTHIAS
River of Achaia.
River near Sicyon.
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of Apesas. (Paus. 2.15.3)
Apesas. The mountain was also called Aphesas because the horse races in the
Nemean Games began at its base. The Nemean lion was said to have roamed its slopes
and the high summit was known also in legend as the place where Perseus first
sacrificed to Zeus Apesantios. (The chief ancient sources are Hes. Theog. 327-31;
Plin. HN 4.17; author of de fluv. 18.5; Paus. 2.15.3; Stat. Theb. 3.461; Etym.
Mag. and Steph. Byz.) The remains of the great ash altar of Zeus are located near
the E edge of the summit and pottery sherds in the vicinity date from the Geometric
period to the 4th c. B.C. The mountain rises above the Nemea river and separated
the Corinthia from the territory of Kleonai.
Apesas (Fuka), a mountain in Peloponnesus above Nemea in the territory of Cleonae, where Perseus is said to have been the first person, who sacrificed to Zeus Apesantius. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 325; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 40.)
PELLANA (Ancient city) XYLOKASTRO
Above the temple of Athena is a grove, surrounded by a wall, of Artemis surnamed Saviour, by whom they swear their most solemn oaths. No man may enter the grove except the priests. These priests are natives, chosen chiefly because of their high birth.
Place near Pellene.
Township of Pellene.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
River near Sicyon.
The other stories about the river are current among both the Phliasians and the Sicyonians, for instance that its water is foreign and not native, in that the Maeander, descending from Celaenae through Phrygia and Caria, and emptying itself into the sea at Miletus, goes to the Peloponnesus and forms the Asopus.
SIKYONIA (Ancient area) CORINTHIA
Perseus Encyclopedia
Helisson : Perseus Project index
SOLYGIA (Ancient city) SARONIKOS
The Athenians made an expedition against the territory of Corinth. Putting out to sea they made land at daybreak between Chersonese and Rheitus, at the beach of the country underneath the Solygian hill, upon which the Dorians in old times established themselves and carried on war against the Aeolian inhabitants of Corinth.
This extract is from: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War,
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
STYMFALOS (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
Lake of, its water brought to Corinth, river Erasinus flows from Stymphalus under ground, in Arcadia, the birds there shot by Herakles, alleged subterranean channel from it to Argos.
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
KYLLINI (Mountain) CORINTHIA
Mountains of Arcadia. Some locate them at the area of the village Kastania, whereas others think that they are somewhere near the village Mossia (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p.238, note 7).
Mountain of Arcadia.
Mountain of Arcadia and Achaia.
GOURA (Village) FENEOS
Fountain near Pheneus.
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Spring at Nemea.
STYMFALOS (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
Spring in Arcadia.
River of Arcadia.
A river in Argolis alleged to be partly subterranean, rises in Stymphalus.
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