Εμφανίζονται 5 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Πληροφορίες για τον τόπο για το τοπωνύμιο: "ΚΑΣΣΩΠΗ Αρχαιολογικός χώρος ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ".
Located in SW Epeiros, above the modern village of Kamarina. The city
was apparently the result of a Sunoikismos of the Kassopaians in the 3d c. B.C.
although some earlier remains, notably roof tiles, may indicate prior settlement
on the site. Kassope may not have been severely damaged in the destructions attendant
on the Roman conquest. In any event, there is evidence that it flourished at least
up to the founding of Nikopolis. The site of the ancient city is extensive: its
circuit wall has been calculated to be 2800 m long. A large theater, a smaller
theater in the agora, the foundations of a temple, and the remains of a grid plan
agora have been recorded.
A portion of the city has been excavated. Most interesting is a large
building (33 x 30.3 m) constructed of ashlar and polygonal masonry, with upper
courses built of baked brick set into a wooden superstructure. The building contains
17 rooms grouped around an interior courtyard, with an entrance through an 18th
room which served as a doorway for the building on the S. The courtyard was surrounded
by a colonnade of 26 octagonal Doric columns. There was also an upper story in
the building on three of its four sides, perhaps allowing enough space for a total
of 30 rooms. The rooms in the upper story must have been accessible by wooden
ladders, while those on the lower one show some evidence for hearths and foundations
for tables. The building has been identified as a katagogeion or guest house,
and apparently some destruction in the 1st c. B.C. was followed by repairs.
A street 4 m wide runs to the S parallel to the katagogeion; to the
SE lies the small theater, and to the SW a rectangular building so far unexplored.
On the other side of the street is a long Doric stoa (63.1 x 11.3 m) which faces
N; its construction is similar to that of the katagogeion. Opinions differ as
to dates: 1) the katagogeion is placed in the first half of the 4th c., primarily
on the basis of early roof tiles, and the katagogeion in the 3d c.; 2) the stoa
and the katagogeion are more or less contemporary, constructed in the second half
of the 3d c. when the agora itself was laid out.
W. R. Biers, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Sep 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains 68 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Ελάτρια, Βατία, Βούχετα (ή Βουχέτιον), Κασσώπη, Πανδοσία, ονόματα
πόλεων αρχαίων, που ήκμασαν στην περιοχή του νομού Πρέβεζας και που τα ίχνη τους
χάθηκαν στο πέρασμα του χρόνου.Η Κασσώπη, πρωτεύουσα της Κασσωπαίας, κτίστηκε
πριν τα μέσα του 4ου αιν. π.Χ. σε φυσικά οχυρή θέση, σε ένα οροπέδιο με υψόμετρο
550-650μ., στις πλαγιές του Ζαλόγγου,
με σκοπό να προστατευθεί από την εκμετάλλευση των Ηλείων αποίκων, η εύφορη πεδιάδα
που απλωνόταν νοτιότερα.
Η μεγάλη ακμή της πόλης σημειώνεται στον 3ο αιώνα π.Χ. όταν κτίζονται
τα μεγάλα δημόσια κτίρια και ανοικοδομούνται πολλά σπίτια. Μέσα στον πολυγωνικό
της περίβολο τείχη πάχους 3,20-3,50μ, υπήρχαν περίπου 600 διώροφα σπίτια σε οικόπεδα
των 230μ2, όλα με μεσημβρινό προσανατολισμό και άρτια κατασκευή και λειτουργικότητα,
συνδεόμενα με μια οδό και με κοινό αποχετευτικό διάδρομο με ειδικό σκεπασμένο,υπόνομο.
Κτισμένη κατά το Ιπποδάμειο σύστημα με 20 παράλληλους δρόμους, τους
"στενωπούς", πλάτους 4,20μ., που μεταξύ τους απέχουν 30μ., και διασταυρώνονται
με τους πλατύτερους δρόμους, τις "πλατείες", πλάτους 6μ., σχηματίζοντας
60 περίπου οικοδομικά τετράγωνα, η Κασσώπη εντυπωσιάζει. Στον χώρο δεσπόζει το
Πρυτανείο ή Καταγώγιο, οικοδόμημα 30X30 μ., διώροφο κατά τις τρεις πλευρές και
μονώροφο στην τέταρτη για να μη κρύβει τον ήλιο. Εμφανή είναι τα κατάλοιπα του
Ωδείου και του Θεάτρου. Η πόλη είχε περίπου 10.000 κατοίκους. Καταστράφηκε το
167 π.Χ., απ' τους Ρωμαίους (Αιμίλιος Παύλος) κι εγκαταλείφθηκε οριστικά με την
υποχρεωτική συνοίκηση των κατοίκων της στη Νικόπολη,
στο τέλος του 1ου π.Χ., αι.
Το κείμενο παρατίθεται τον Οκτώβριο 2002 από την ακόλουθη ιστοσελίδα, με φωτογραφίες, του Δήμου Ζαλόγγου
Kassope, Kassopia polis, Kassiope. The chief town of the Cassopaei
(Kassopaioi), a people of Epirus, occupying the coast between Thesprotia and the
Ambracian gulf, and bordering upon Nicopolis. (Scylax, p. 12; Strab. vii. p. 324,
seq.) Scylax describes the Cassopaei as living in villages; but they afterwards
rose to such power as to obtain possession of Pandosia, Buchaetium, and Elateia.
(Dem. de Halon. 33.) We learn from another authority that Batiae was also in their
territory. (Theopomp. ap. Harpocr. s. v. Elateia.) Their own city Cassope or Cassopia
is mentioned in the war carried on by Cassander against Alcetas, king of Epirus,
in B.C. 312. (Diod. xix. 88.)
Cassope stood at a short distance from the sea, on the road from Pandosia
to Nicopolis upon the portion of the mountain of Zalongo, near the village of
Kamarina. Its ruins, which are very extensive, are minutely described by Leake.
The ruined walls of the Acropolis, which occupied a level about 1000 yards long,
may be traced in their entire circuit; and those of the city may also be followed
in the greater part of their course. The city was not less than three miles in
circumference. At the foot of the cliffs of the Acropolis, towards the western
end, there is a theatre in good preservation, of which the interior diameter is
50 feet. Near the theatre is a subterraneous building, called by the peasants
Vasilospito, or King's House. A passage, 19 feet in length, and 5 feet in breadth,
with a curved roof one foot and a half high, leads to a chamber 9 feet 9 inches
square, and having a similar roof 5 feet 7 inches in height. The arches are not
constructed on the principles of the Roman arch; but are hollowed out of horizontal
courses of stone. Leake found several tombs between the principal gate of the
city and the village of Kamarina. The ruins of this city are some of the most
extensive in the whole of Greece.
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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