Εμφανίζονται 8 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Μνημεία που αναφέρονται από αρχαίους για το τοπωνύμιο: "ΕΠΙΔΑΥΡΟΣ Αρχαία πόλη ΑΡΓΟΛΙΔΑ".
There is also in the city a temple of Dionysus and one of Artemis. The figure of Artemis one might take to be the goddess hunting. (Paus. 2.29.1)
Above the grove (of Asclepius) are the Nipple and another mountain called Cynortium;
on the latter is a sanctuary of Maleatian Apollo. The sanctuary itself is an ancient
one, but among the things Antoninus made for the Epidaurians are various appurtenances
for the sanctuary of the Maleatian, including a reservoir into which the rain-water
collects for their use.
The serpents, including a peculiar kind of a yellowish color, are
considered sacred to Asclepius, and are tame with men. These are peculiar to Epidauria,
and I have noticed that other lands have their peculiar animals. For in Libya
only are to be found land crocodiles at least two cubits long; from India alone
are brought, among other creatures, parrots. But the big snakes that grow to more
than thirty cubits, such as are found in India and in Libya, are said by the Epidaurians
not to be serpents, but some other kind of creature. (Paus.+2.27.7-28.1)
As you go up to Mount Coryphum you see by the road an olive tree called Twisted. It was Heracles who gave it this shape by bending it round with his hand, but I cannot say whether he set it to be a boundary mark against the Asinaeans in Argolis, since in no land, which has been depopulated, is it easy to discover the truth about the boundaries. On the Top of the mountain there is a sanctuary of Artemis Coryphaea (of the Peak), of which Telesilla made mention in an ode. (Paus. 2.28.2)
On going down (from Mount Coryphum) to the city of the Epidaurians, you come to
a place where wild olives grow; they call it Hyrnethium. I will relate the story
of it, which is probable enough, as given by the Epidaurians. Ceisus and the other
sons of Temenus knew that they would grieve Deiphontes most if they could find
a way to part him and Hyrnetho. So Cerynes and Phalces (for Agraeus, the youngest,
disapproved of their plan) came to Epidaurus. Staying their chariot under the
wall, they sent a herald to their sister, pretending that they wished to parley
with her.
When she obeyed their summons, the young men began to make many accusations
against Deiphontes, and besought her much that she would return to Argos, promising,
among other things, to give her to a husband in every respect better than Deiphontes,
one who ruled over more subjects and a more prosperous country. But Hyrnetho,
pained at their words, gave as good as she had received, retorting that Deiphontes
was a dear husband to her, and had shown himself a blameless son-in-law to Temenus;
as for them, they ought to be called the murderers of Temenus rather than his
sons.
Without further reply the youths seized her, placed her in the chariot,
and drove away. An Epidaurian told Deiphontes that Cerynes and Phalces had gone,
taking with them Hyrnetho against her will; he himself rushed to the rescue with
all speed, and as the Epidaurians learned the news they reinforced him. On overtaking
the runaways, Deiphontes shot Cerynes and killed him, but he was afraid to shoot
at Phalces, who was holding Hyrnetho, lest he should miss him and become the slayer
of his wife; so he closed with them and tried to get her away. But Phalces, holding
on and dragging her with greater violence, killed her, as she was with child.
Realizing what he had done to his sister, he began to drive the chariot
more recklessly, as he was anxious to gain a start before all the Epidaurians
could gather against him. Deiphontes and his children--for before this children
had been born to him, Antimenes, Xanthippus, and Argeus, and a daughter, Orsobia,
who, they say, after-wards married Pamphylus, son of Aegimius--took up the dead
body of Hyrnetho and carried it to this place, which in course of time was named
Hyrnethium.
T hey built for her a hero-shrine, and bestowed upon her various honors;
in particular, the custom was established that nobody should carry home, or use
for any purpose, the pieces that break off the olive trees, or any other trees,
that grow there; these are left there on the spot to be sacred to Hyrnetho. (Paus .2.28.2-7)
There is also a sanctuary of Aphrodite, while the one at the harbor, on a height that juts out into the sea, they say is Hera's. (Paus. 2.29.1)
The Athena on the citadel, a wooden image worth seeing, they surname Cissaea (Ivy Goddess). (Paus. 2.29.1)
Not far from the city is the tomb of Melissa, who married Periander, the son of Cypselus, and another of Procles, the father of Melissa. He, too, was tyrant of Epidaurus, as Periander, his son-in-law, was tyrant of Corinth (ca 600 BC). (Paus. 2.28.8)
The most noteworthy things which I found the city of Epidaurus itself had to show are these. There is, of course, a precinct of Asclepius, with images of the god himself and of Epione. Epione, they say, was the wife of Asclepius. These are of Parian marble, and are set up in the open. (Paus. 2.29.1)
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