Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "ASSINI Ancient city ARGOLIS".
It is said that Asine too
was a habitation of the Dryopians--whether, being inhabitants of the regions of
the Spercheius, they were
settled here by the Arcadian
Dryops, as Aristotle has said, or whether they were driven by Heracles out of
the part of Doris that is
near Parnassus. As for the
Scyllaeum in Hermione,
they say that it was named after Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, who, they say,
out of love for Minos betrayed Nisaea to him and was drowned in the sea by him,
and was here cast ashore by the waves and buried. Eiones was a village, which
was depopulated by the Mycenaeans
and made into a naval station, but later it disappeared from sight and now is
not even a naval station. (Strabo 8.6.13)
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