Listed 27 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "LAKEDEMONA Province LACONIA" .
THORNAX (Ancient city) SPARTI
For the Lacedaemonians had sent to Sardis to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on Thornax in Laconia; and Croesus, when they offered to buy it, made them a free gift of it.
GERONTHRES (Ancient city) LACONIA
A hundred and twenty stades inland from Acriae is Geronthrae. It was inhabited before the Heracleidae came to Peloponnesus, but the Dorians of Lacedaemon expelled the Achaean inhabitants and afterwards sent to it settlers of their own; but in my time it belonged to the Free Laconians. 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: 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.
KROKEES (Ancient city) LACONIA
As you go down to the sea towards Gythium you come to a village called Croceae and a quarry. It is not a continuous stretch of rock, but the stones they dig out are shaped like river pebbles; they are hard to work, but when worked sanctuaries of the gods might be adorned with them, while they are especially adapted for beautifying swimming-baths and fountains. Here before the village stands an image of Zeus of Croceae in marble, and the Dioscuri in bronze are at the quarry.
EGYS (Ancient city) PELANA
Vassal city of Lacedaemon, enslaved.
ELOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
Achaean city in Laconia, destroyed by Lacedaemonians.
ERMES (Ancient location) LACONIA
Place in Laconia.
EVROTAS (River) PELOPONNISOS
River of Laconia, its sources, unites with Alpheus.
FARAS (Ancient city) THERAPNES
Or Pharae, city of Laconia, captured from Achaeans by Lacedaemonians, attacked by Messenians under Aristomenes.
KARYES (Ancient city) LAKEDEMONA
Place in Laconia, sacred to Artemis, maidens dance at C. in honour of Artemis.
KROKEES (Ancient city) LACONIA
Village of Laconia, its quarries.
PARNONAS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Mount Parnon, on which the Lacedaemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatae
PELLANA (Mycenean settlement) PELANA
City of Laconia, Tyndareus flees to, infant Dioscuri taken by Hermes to, Pellanian spring.
SELINOUS (Ancient small town) GERONTHRI
There was a road from Geronthres to Selinounta (Paus. 3,22,8).
SELLASIA (Ancient city) INOUDAS
City of Laconia, enslaved by Achaeans, its ruins, Lacedagemonians under Cleomenes defeated by Antigonus and Achaeans at.
TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
THERAPNI (Ancient city) SPARTI
Νear Sparta, near Sparta, a temple of Helen there, Menelaus and Helen buried at.
THORNAX (Ancient city) SPARTI
A mountain in Laconia, Apollo's temple there, place in Laconia.
VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
City of Laconia.
AMYKLES (Ancient sanctuary) SPARTI
According to Ephorus: Eurysthenes and Procles, the Heracleidae,
took possession of Laconia, divided the country into six parts, and founded cities;
now one of the divisions, Amyclae, they selected and gave to the man who had betrayed
Laconia to them and who had persuaded the ruler who was in possession of it to
accept their terms and emigrate with the Achaeans to Ionia; Sparta they designated
as a royal residence for themselves; to the other divisions they sent kings, and
because of the sparsity of the population gave them permission to receive as fellow
inhabitants any strangers who wished the privilege; and they used Las as a naval
station because of its good harbor, and Aegys as a base of operations against
their enemies (for its territory bordered on those of the surrounding peoples)
and Pharis as a treasury, because it afforded security against outsiders;
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited May 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
EGYS (Ancient city) PELANA
There is also a Carystus in the Laconian country, a place belonging to Aegys, towards Arcadia;
According to Ephorus: Eurysthenes and Procles, the Heracleidae, took possession of Laconia, divided the country into six parts, and founded cities; now one of the divisions, Amyclae, they selected and gave to the man who had betrayed Laconia to them and who had persuaded the ruler who was in possession of it to accept their terms and emigrate with the Achaeans to Ionia; Sparta they designated as a royal residence for themselves; to the other divisions they sent kings, and because of the sparsity of the population gave them permission to receive as fellow inhabitants any strangers who wished the privilege; and they used Las as a naval station because of its good harbor, and Aegys as a base of operations against their enemies (for its territory bordered on those of the surrounding peoples) and Pharis as a treasury, because it afforded security against outsiders;
ELOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
Then comes a marshy district situated above the gulf, and also a village called Helus. In earlier times Helus was a city, just as Homer says.
. . but though the neighboring peoples, one and all, were subject to the Spartiatae, still they had equal rights, sharing both in the rights of citizenship and in the offices of state, and they were called Helots; but Agis, the son of Eurysthenes, deprived them of the equality of rights and ordered them to pay tribute to Sparta; now all obeyed except the Heleians, the occupants of Helus, who, because they revolted, were forcibly reduced in a war, and were condemned to slavery, with the express reservation that no slaveholder should be permitted either to set them free or to sell them outside the borders of the country; and this war was called the War against the Helots.
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.
The stream of the Eurotas reappears where the district called Bleminatis begins, and then flows past Sparta itself, traverses a long glen near Helus (a place mentioned by the poet), and empties between Gythium, the naval station of Sparta, and Acraea.
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.
EVROTAS (River) PELOPONNISOS
Then comes the mouth of the Alpheius, which is distant two hundred and eighty stadia from Chelonatas, and five hundred and forty five from Araxus. It flows from the same regions as the Eurotas, that is, from a place called Asea, a village in the territory of Megalopolis, where there are two springs near one another from which the rivers in question flow.
KARYSTOS (Ancient city) PELANA
There is also a Carystus in the Laconian country, a place belonging to Aegys, towards Arcadia; whence the Carystian wine of which Alcman speaks.
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