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League Of Free Laconians
The League of Free Laconians () was established in southern Greece in 21 BC by the Emperor Augustus,Greenhalgh and Eliopoulos. ''Deep into Mani: Journey to the southern tip of Greece'', 21 giving formal structure to a group of cities that had been associated for almost two centuries. History The (, 'free Laconians') are first mentioned in 195 BC, after Sparta's defeat in the Roman-Spartan War. The Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus placed several coastal cities, inhabited by ''perioikoi'', under the protection of the Achaean League, separating them from the rump Spartan state. The most important of its cities was Gythium. A few years later, in 192 BC, Gythium was recaptured by Nabis of Sparta, but the Achean League immediately attacked the city. The city of Las was attacked and captured by the Spartans. The Achaean League retaliated and attacked Las and Sparta. Following the dissolution of the Achaean League in 146 BC, the joined the Lacedaemonian League(κοινὸν ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia. Diocles rose through the ranks of the military early in his career, eventually becoming a cavalry commander for the army of Emperor Carus. After the deaths of Carus and his son Numerian on a campaign in Persia, Diocles was proclaimed emperor by the troops, taking the name Diocletianus. The title was also claimed by Carus's surviving son, Carinus, but Diocletian defeated him in the Battle of the Margus. Diocletian's reign stabilized the empire and ended the Crisis of the Third Century. He appointed fellow officer Maximian as ''Augustus'', co-emperor, in 286. Diocletian reigned in the Eastern Empire, and Maximian reigned in the Western Empire. Diocletian delegated further on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boeae
Boeae or Boiai ( grc, Βοιαί), also known as Boea or Boia (Βοία), was a town in the south of ancient Laconia, situated between the promontories Malea and Onugnathos, in the bay called after it Boeatic Gulf (Βοιατικὸς κόλπος). The town is said to have been founded by Boeus, one of the Heraclidae, who led thither colonists from the neighbouring towns of Etis, Aphrodisias, and Side. It afterwards belonged to the Eleuthero-Lacones, and was visited by Pausanias, who mentions a temple of Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ... in the forum, and temples of Aesculapius and of Sarapis and Isis elsewhere. At the distance of seven ''stadion (unit), stadia'' from the town there were ruins of a temple of Aesculapius and Hygieia. Its site is located near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acriae
Acriae or Akriai ( grc, Ἀκριαί), or Acraeae or Akraiai (Ἀκραῖαι), or Acreia or Akreia (Ἄκρεια), also spelled Acraea, was a town of ancient Laconia, on the eastern side of the Laconian bay, 30 stadia south of Helos. Strabo describes the Eurotas as flowing into the sea between Acriae and Gythium. Acriae possessed a sanctuary and a statue of the mother of the gods, which was said by the inhabitants of the town to be the most ancient in the Peloponnesus. William Martin Leake William Martin Leake (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the Mediterrane ... was unable to discover any remains of Acriae; the French expedition place its ruins at the harbour of Kokinio. Its site is located near the modern Kokkinia. References * Cities in ancient Peloponnese Populated places in ancient Laconia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asopus
Asopus (; grc, Ἀ̄σωπός ''Āsōpos'') is the name of four different rivers in Greece and one in Turkey. In Greek mythology, it was also the name of the gods of those rivers. Zeus carried off Aegina, Asopus' daughter, and Sisyphus, who had witnessed the act, told Asopus that he could reveal the identity of the person who had abducted Aegina, but in return Asopus would have to provide a perennial fountain of water at Corinth, Sisyphus' city. Accordingly, Asopus produced a fountain at Corinth, and pursued Zeus, but had to retreat for fear of Zeus' terrible thunderbolt. Rivers The rivers in Greece #Asopos (Boeotia), a river of Boeotia originating on Mt. Cithaeron and flowing through the district of Plataea into the Euripus Strait. #Asopos (Corinthia) or Phliasian Asopus, originating in Phliasian territory and flowing through Sicyonian territory into the Gulf of Corinth near Sicyon. Pausanias mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerenia
Gerenia ( grc, Γερηνία), or Gerena (τὰ Γέρηνα), or Gerenus or Gerenos (Γέρηνος), was a town of ancient Messenia, where, according to Greek mythology, Nestor was said to have been brought up after the destruction of Pylos, and whence he derived the surname Gerenian, which occurs so frequently in the ''Iliad'' of Homer. There is, however, no town of this name mentioned in Homer, and many of the ancient critics identified the later Gerenia with the Homeric Enope. Under the Roman Empire, Gerenia was the most northerly of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns, and was situated on the eastern side of the Messenian Gulf, upon a mountainous promontory. Pausanias says that in the district of Gerenia there was a mountain called Calathium, upon which there was a sanctuary of Claea (an Oread), and close to the latter a cavern, of which the entrance was narrow, though within there were many things worthy to be seen. Its site is located near the Zarnata, аbove the modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alagonia
Alagonia ( grc, Ἀλαγονία) was a town of ancient Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia.Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC * Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ..., ''Description of Greece'' iii. 21. § 6-7, iii. 26. § 8-11 Its site is tentatively located near the modern Anatoliko. References Populated places in ancient Laconia Former populated places in Greece Children of Zeus {{AncientLaconia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalamae (Laconia)
Thalamae or Thalamai ( grc, Θαλάμαι or Θαλάμη) was a town of ancient Laconia, which at various times belonged to Messenia. According to Greek mythology, Thalamae was founded by Pelops, who, after his sister Niobe married Amphion, brought colonists from Boeotia; and was called in the time of Strabo the Boeotian Thalamae. It stood 80 stadia north of Oetylus, and 20 stadia from Pephnus., 2 Pephnus was on the coast, on the eastern side of the Messenian Gulf, and Thalamae was situated inland, upon the river Miléa, the minor Pamisus of Strabo. Ptolemy also calls it one of the inland towns of Laconia. Theopompus called Thalamae a Messenian town, and we know that the Messenians said that their territory originally extended as far as the minor Pamisus. Indeed, when Hippocoon usurped the throne of Sparta, Tyndareus fled to his brother Aphareus of Messenia where he settled in Thalamae and while living there, children were born to him. Thalamae is mentioned by Polybius. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leuctra (Laconia)
Leuctra or Leuktra ( grc, τὰ Λεῦκτρα), also Leuctrum or Leuktron (τὸ Λεῦκτρον), was a town of ancient Laconia, situated on the eastern side of the Messenian Gulf, 20 ''stadion (unit), stadia'' north of Pephnus, and 60 ''stadia'' south of Cardamyle. Strabo speaks of Leuctrum as a colony of the Leuctra in ancient Boeotia, Boeotia, near the minor Pamisus, but this river flows into the sea at Pephnus, about three miles (5 km) south of Leuctrum. Leuctrum was said to have been founded by Pelops, and was claimed by the ancient Messenia, Messenians as originally one of their towns. It was awarded to the latter people by Philip II of Macedon in 338 BCE, but in the time of the Roman Empire it was one of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns. Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias saw in Leuctra a temple and statue of Athena on the acropolis, a temple and statue of Cassandra (there called Alexandra), a marble statue of Asclepius, another of Ino (mythology), Ino, and wooden figures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oetylus
Oetylus or Oitylos ( grc, Οἴτυλος), also known as Beitylus or Beitylos (Βείτυλος), or Bityla (Βίτυλα), was a town of ancient Laconia on the eastern side of the Messenian Gulf, at the modern settlement of Oitylo. Pausanias says that it was 80 ''stadia'' from Thalamae and 150 from Messa;, 3.25.10, 3.26.1. the latter distance is too great, but there is no doubt of the identity of Oetylus and modern Oitylo; and it appears that Pausanias made a mistake in the names, as the distance between Oetylus and Caenepolis is 150 ''stadia''. Oetylus is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the ''Iliad''. During the Roman period it was one of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns. It was still governed by its ephors in the 3rd century AD. Pausanias saw at Oetylus a temple of Sarapis, and a wooden statue of Apollo Carneius in the agora The agora (; grc, ἀγορά, romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caenepolis
Caenepolis or Kainepolis ( grc, Καινήπολις, 3=new town), also called Caene or Kaine (Καινή), was a town of ancient Laconia north of the Cape Taenarum. It is probably the same town as mentioned by Strabo under the corrupt form Cinaedium or Kinaidion (Κιναίδιον). It contained a temple of Demeter and another of Aphrodite, the latter near the sea. The modern village of Kyparissos stands on the site of this town. Some ancient remains and inscriptions of the time of the Antonines and their successors have been found here. On the door-posts of a small ruined church are two inscribed quadrangular στῆλαι, decorated with mouldings above and below. One of the inscriptions is a decree of the Taenarians, and the other is by the community of the Eleuthero-Lacones (τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἐλευθερολακώνων). We have the testimony of Pausanias that Caenepolis was one of the Eleuthero-Laconian cities; and it would appear from the above-mentioned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrrhichus
Pyrrhichus or Pyrrhichos ( grc, Πύρριχος) was a town of ancient Laconia, situated about the centre of the promontory ending in Cape Taenarum, and distant 40 ''stadia'' from the river Scyras. According to some it derived its name from Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, according to others from Pyrrhichus, one of the Curetes. Silenus was also said to have been brought up here. It contained temples of Artemis Astrateia and of Apollo Amazonius – the two surnames referring to the tradition that the Amazons did not proceed further than this place. There was also a well in the ''agora''. The ruins of this town have been discovered by the French Commission near the village of Kavalos near Kotronas, where they found the well of which Pausanias speaks, the torso of a female statue, the remains of baths, and several Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
