Colonides or Kolonides ( grc, Κολωνίδες), also known as Colonis or Kolonis (Κολωνίς)
[ Plutarch, ''Phil.'' 18.] or as Colone or Kolone (Κολώνη), was a town in the southwest of
ancient Messenia described by
Pausanias as standing upon a height at a short distance from the sea, and 40
stadia
Stadia may refer to:
* One of the plurals of stadium, along with "stadiums"
* The plural of stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which equals to 600 Greek feet (''podes'').
* Stadia (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, now in Turkey
* Stadi ...
from
Asine. The inhabitants affirmed that they were not Messenians, but a colony led from
Athens by
Colaenus. It is mentioned by
Plutarch as a place which
Philopoemen marched to relieve leading to his capture and execution;
[ but according to the narrative of Livy, Corone was the place towards which Philopoemen marched.
Its site is located near the modern Vournaria.]
References
Populated places in ancient Messenia
Former populated places in Greece
Athenian colonies
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