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| Ancient literary sources
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Palaea
Village of Laconia.
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Palaea
On the road from Acriae to Geronthrae is a village called Palaea
(Old), and in Geronthrae itself are a temple and grove of Ares. Every year they
hold a festival in honor of the God, at which women are forbidden to enter the
grove. Around the market-place are their springs of drinking-water. On the citadel
is a temple of Apollo with the head of an ivory image. The rest of the image was
destroyed by fire along with the former temple.
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