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AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
About eighty stades beyond Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city on the coast. Well worth seeing here are a temple and marble image of the Mother of the Gods. The people of Acriae say that this is the oldest sanctuary of this goddess in the Peloponnesus, although the Magnesians, who live to the north of Mount Sipylus, have on the rock Coddinus the most ancient of all the images of the Mother of the gods. The Magnesians say that it was made by Broteas the son of Tantalus. The people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals carried off five prizes for running. There has been raised to him a monument between the gymnasium and the wall by the harbor.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Asopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and about twelve stades inland from the city is a sanctuary of Asclepius. They call the god Philolaus, and the bones in the gymnasium, which they worship, are human, although of superhuman size. On the citadel is also a sanctuary of Athena, surnamed Cyparissia (Cypress Goddess ). At the foot of the citadel are the ruins of a city called the City of the Paracyparissian Achaeans. There is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
NYMFEON (Ancient port) VOION
On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of Poseidon standing, and a cave close to the sea; in it is a spring of sweet water. There is a large population in the district.
VIES (Ancient city) VOION
. . there runs into the land the Gulf of Boeae, and the city of Boeae is at the head of the gulf. This was founded by Boeus, one of the Heracleidae, and he is said to have collected inhabitants for it from three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias and Side. Of the ancient cities two are said to have been founded by Aeneas when he was fleeing to Italy and had been driven into this gulf by storms. Etias, they allege, was a daughter of Aeneas. The third city they say was named after Side, daughter of Danaus. When the inhabitants of these cities were expelled, they were anxious to know where they ought to settle, and an oracle was given them that Artemis would show them where they were to dwell. When therefore they had gone on shore, and a hare appeared to them, they looked upon the hare as their guide on the way. When it dived into a myrtle tree, they built a city on the site of the myrtle, and down to this day they worship that myrtle tree, and name Artemis Saviour. In the market-place of Boeae is a temple of Apollo, and in another part of the town are temples of Asclepius, of Serapis, and of Isis. The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes. Among the ruins is a not insignificant sanctuary of Asclepius and Health.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
AFRODISSIAS (Ancient city) VOION
City of Laconia.
AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
City of Free Laconians.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
City of Free Laconians.
ELAFONISSOS (Island) PELOPONNISOS
Cape in Laconia.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
Limera, city of Free Laconians (Paus. 3,217 & 3,236 ff).
EPIDILION (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
Place in Laconia, sacred to Apollo.
ITI (Ancient city) VOION
City of Laconia.
KYFAS (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
Town of Laconia.
NYMFEON (Ancient port) VOION
Harbour in Laconia.
PALEA (Ancient city) NIATA
Village of Laconia.
SIDI (Ancient city) VOION
City of Laconia.
VIES (Ancient city) VOION
City of Laconia, captured by Athenians, Bay of.
YPERTELEATON (Ancient sanctuary) ASSOPOS
Place in Laconia.
ZARAX (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
Maritime city of Laconia, belongs to Free Laconians.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
But Apollodorus observes that this Epidaurus Limera is near Cythera, and that, because it has a good harbor, it was called "Limenera," which was abbreviated and contracted to "Limera," so that its name has been changed.
KYPARISSIA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
And one comes also to a plain called Leuce; then to a city Cyparissia, which is situated on a peninsula and has a harbor; then to Onugnathus, which has a harbor.
PALEA (Ancient city) NIATA
On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea
(Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a temple and grove of Ares. Every year they
hold a festival in honor of the God, at which women are forbidden to enter the
grove. Around the market-place are their springs of drinking-water. On the citadel
is a temple of Apollo with the head of an ivory image. The rest of the image was
destroyed by fire along with the former temple.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
AFRODISSIAS (Ancient city) VOION
Accordingly they now allowed the Athenians to ravage their seaboard,
without making any movement, the garrisons in whose neighbourhood the descents
were made always thinking their numbers insufficient, and sharing the general
feeling. A single garrison which ventured to resist, near Cotyrta and Aphrodisia,
struck terror by its charge into the scattered mob of light troops, but retreated,
upon being received by the heavy infantry, with the loss of a few men and some
arms, for which the Athenians set up a trophy.
KOTYRTA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
Accordingly they now allowed the Athenians to ravage their seaboard,
without making any movement, the garrisons in whose neighbourhood the descents
were made always thinking their numbers insufficient, and sharing the general
feeling. A single garrison which ventured to resist, near Cotyrta and Aphrodisia,
struck terror by its charge into the scattered mob of light troops, but retreated,
upon being received by the heavy infantry, with the loss of a few men and some
arms, for which the Athenians set up a trophy.
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