Listed 15 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "MESSINIA Ancient area MESSINIA" .
EPIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Aepeia was the old name of Corone.
And Aepeia is now called Thuria.
Pausanias identifies Aepea with Corone and Pedasus, and claims that before the Trojan War it was called Mothone.
Before the mustering of the army for the Trojan war, and during the war, Mothone was called Pedasus (Paus. 4,35,1). Next comes Methone. This, they say, is what the poet calls Pedasus (Strabo 8,4,3).
ARINI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to me with certainty (Paus. 5.6.2).
AMFIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
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MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Boundaries of, given in trust to Nestor by Herakles, descendants of Nestor expelled from Messenia by Heraclids, safety of Messenia depends on a secret object, residence of kings of, its alliance with Samos, wars with Sparta.
STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Messenia, palace of Messenian kings at, scene of a battle between Spartans and Messenians.
Descendants of Aepytus.
YAMITIS (Ancient city) MESSINI
District in Messenia, given by Lacedaemonians to descendants of Androcles.
MESSOLA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
RION (Ancient city) MESSINIA
From Thuria is derived the name of the Thuriates Gulf, on which there was but one city, Rhium by name, opposite Taenarum. When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis, he sent kings to them.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians; but since this irritated the Dorians, he changed his mind, gave sanction to Stenyclarus alone as a city, and also gathered into it all the Dorians.
YAMITIS (Ancient city) MESSINI
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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