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Ancient authors' reports

Pellanian spring

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.

Theomelida

SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Place at Sparta.

Hellenium

Place in Sparta.

Platanistas

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.

Dorcea

Fountain at Sparta.

Sebrium

Place at Sparta.

Apheta

Street in Sparta, origin of name.

Taletum, Sanctuary of Helius (the sun)

VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
Peak of Mountain Taygetus, sacred to Sun, SW of Brysae

Ancient place-names

Tanaus River

PARNONAS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
A river called Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the Argive territory and empties itself into the Gulf of Thyrea.

Messeis

SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Fountain at Therapne.

Dromos (Running Course)

The Lacedaemonians give the name Running Course to the place where it is the custom for the young men even down to the present day to practise running.

Kaiadas

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon: a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown (Th.1.134), (Paus. 4.18.4).

Menelaius

Perseus Project - Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short: a mountain in Laconia, on the Eurotas, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 28.

Lapithaeum

TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Place in Laconia.

Dereum

Place in Laconia.

Harplea

Place in Laconia.

Taletum

Peak of Mt. Taygetus, sacred to Sun

Historical place-names

Cave of Kolokotroni

ARNA (Village) FARIDA

Springs

Anonus

TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Spring in Taygetus

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