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Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources
for destination: "GERINIA
Ancient city
AVIA".
Ancient literary sources (2)
Pausanias
Machaon's tomb in Gerenia
For they say that the sons of Asclepius who went to Troy were Messenians, Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, not the son of Coronis, and they call a desolate spot in Messenia by the name Tricca and quote the lines of Homer, in which Nestor tends Machaon kindly, when he has been wounded by the arrow. He would not have shown such readiness except to a neighbor and king of a kindred people. But the surest warrant for their account of the Asclepiadae is that they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL bellow, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks
- Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Messenia
Perseus Encyclopedia
Gerinia
City of Free Laconians, borders on Messenia, called Enope by Homer, tomb and worship of Machaon at G.
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