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ΑΛΚΥΟΝΙΑ (Λίμνη) ΛΕΡΝΑ
Alcyonia (Alkuonia), a lake in Argolis, near the Lernaean grove, through which
Dionysus was said to have descended to the lower world, in order to bring back
Semele from Hades. Pausanias says that its depth was unfathomable, and that Nero
had let down several stadia of rope, loaded with lead, without finding a bottom.
As Pausanias does not mention a lake Lerna, but only a district of this name,
it is probable that the lake called Alcyonia by Pausanias is the same as the Lerna
of other writers. (Paus. ii. 37. § 5, seq.; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 473.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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