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| Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities |
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Cranii
Kranioi. A town of Cephallenia on the south coast.
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| Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith) |
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Cranii
Kranioi. A town of Cephallenia, situated at the head of a bay on the
western coast. In B.C. 431 it joined the Athenian alliance, together with the
other Cephallenian towns (Thuc. ii. 30); in consequence of which the Corinthians
made a descent upon the territory of Cranii, but were repulsed with loss. (Thuc.
ii. 33.) In B.C. 421 the Athenians settled at Cranii the Messenians who were withdrawn
from Pylos on the surrender of that fortress to the Lacedaemonians. (Thuc. v.
35.) Cranii surrendered to the Romans without resistance in B.C. 189. (Liv. xxxviii.
28.) It is mentioned both by Strabo (x.) and Pliny (iv. 12. s. 19).
The ruins of Cranii are near the modern town of Argostoli. Leake remarks
that the walls of Cranii are among the best extant specimens of the military architecture
of the Greeks, and a curious example of their attention to strength of position
in preference to other conveniences; for nothing can be more rugged or forbidding
than the greater part of the site. The enclosure, which was of a quadrilateral
form, and little, if at all, less than three miles in circumference, followed
the crests of several rocky summits, surrounding an elevated hollow which falls
to the south-western extremity of the gulf of Argostoli. The walls may be traced
in nearly their whole circumference.
| This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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