Listed 45 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "MESSINIA Prefecture PELOPONNISOS" .
DORION (Prehistoric settlement) TRIFYLIA
A Thracian or Odrysian, dealt with in poem Minyad, son of Philammon and Argiope, a great minstrel, engages in a musical contest with the Muses, is beaten and blinded by them, wins prize for singing at Pythian games, boasts he can vanquish the Muses, loses his sight and is punished in hell, throws away his lyre.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Son of Hermes and Phylodamia, founds Pharae.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
A Pelasgic people, who dwelt first in Thessaly, from the Spercheus to Parnassus, and afterwards in Doris, which was called from them Dryopis. Driven out of Doris by the Dorians, they migrated to other countries, and settled in Peloponnesus, Euboea, and Asia Minor. S
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AVLON (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Aulonius (Aulonios), a surname of Asclepius, derived from a temple he had in Aulon, a valley in Messenia. (Paus. iv. 36.5)
KORYFASSIO (Cape) NESTOR
Copyphasia (Koruphasia), a surname of Athena, derived from the promontory of Coryphasion, on which she had a sanctuary. (Paus. iv. :3.2)
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
(Anemotis, the subduer of the winds, a surname of Athena under which she was worshipped and had a temple at Mothone in Messenia. It was believed to have been built by Diomedes, because in consequence of his prayers the goddess had subdued the storms which did injury to the country. (Paus. iv. 35.5)
ANDANIA (Ancient city) ANDANIA
Caucon (Kaukon), a son of Celaenus, who was believed to have carried the orgies of the great goddess from Eleusis to Messene, where he was worshipped as a hero. His tomb was shewn in Lepreos (Paus. iv. 1.4, 27.4, v. 5.4). One of the sons of Lycaon also bore the name of Caucon. (Apollod. iii. 8.1)
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
Chalcon, of Cyparissus, the shield-bearer of Antilochus. He was in love with the Amazon Penthesileia, but on hastening to her assistance Hle was killed by Achilles, and the Greeks nailed his body to a cross. (Eustath. ad Hom.)
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Alastor, an Argonaut, son of Neleus and Chloris. When Heracles took Pylos, Alastor and his brothers, except Nestor, were slain by him. (Apollod. i. 9.9; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 156.) According to Parthenius (c. 13) he was to be married to Harpalyce, who, however, was taken from him by her father Clymenus.
A shepherd of Neleus. Apollo turned him to stone because he revealed that the god had stolen Neleus' cattle.
Battus (Battos), a shepherd of Neleus, who saw Hermes driving away the cattle he had stolen from Apollo. The god promised to reward him if he would not betray what he had seen. Battus promised on oath to keep the secret; but as Hermes mistrusted him nevertheless, he assumed a different appearance, returned to Battus, and promised him a handsome present, if he would tell him who had stolen the cattle of Apollo. The shepherd was tempted, and related all he knew, whereupon Hermes touched him with his staff, and changed him into a stone. (Ovid, Met. ii. 688, &c.; Anton. Lib. 22.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Hippocoon disputed Tyndareus about the kingship, claiming the throne on the ground of being the eldest. With the end of Icarius and his partisans he had surpassed Tyndareus in power, and forced him to retire in fear; the Lacedaemonians say that he went to Pellana, but a Messenian legend about him is that he fled to Aphareus in Messenia.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Daughter of Leucippus, mother of Aesculapius by Apollo, her sanctuary at Sparta.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa, from whom Alagonia, a town in Laconia, derived its name. (Paus. iii. 21.6, 26.8)
ANDANIA (Ancient city) ANDANIA
A woman.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Abia, the nurse of Hyllus, a son of Heracles. She built a temple of Heracles at Ira in Messenia, for which the Heraclid Cresphontes afterwards honoured her in various other ways, and also by changing the name of the town of Ira into Abia. (Paus. iv. 30. Β§ 1.)
ITHOMI (Acropolis) MESSINIA
Ithome, a nymph from whom the Messenian hill of Ithome derived its name. According to a Messenian tradition, Ithome and Neda, from whom a small river of the country derived its name, were said to have nursed Zeus, and to have bathed the infant god in the well Clepsydra. (Paus. iv. 33. Β 2.)
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
Daughter of Triopas, wife of Polycaon, revered and invoked as heroine by Messenians, her temple and image.
NEDON (River) MESSINIA
Nymph, nurse of Zeus.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Son of Cleson, king of Megara, claims kingdom against Nisus, receives Pandion and gives him his daughter to wife, slays his father's brother Bias, gives the kingdom to Pandion, and retires to Peloponnese, founds Pylos.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Gorgasus, (Gorgasos), one of the sons of Machaon, the son of Aesculapius, by Anticleia, the daughter of Diocles, king of Pherae, in Messenia who, after the death of his grandfather, succeeded to the kingdom. He also followed the example of his father, by practising the art of healing, for which he received divine honours after his death. (Paus. iv. 30.2.)
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Perieris; son of Cynortus, father of Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus, and Leucippus. Gorgophone; daughter of Perseus, wife of Perieres and Oebalus, first woman who married a second time.
Perieres: A king of Messene, son of Aeolus and Enarete, and
father of Aphareus and Leucoppus by Gorgophone. Some accounts make him also the
father of Tyndareos and Icarius.
Leucippus (Leucippos) Son of Perieres, prince of the Messenians, and father of Phoebe
and Hilaira, usually called Leucippides, who were betrothed to Idas and Lynceus,
the sons of Aphareus, but were carried off by Castor and Pollux, who married them.
Leucippus. A son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and brother of Aphareus. He was the father of Arsinoe, Phoebe, and Hilaeira, and prince of the Messenians. He is mentioned among the Calydonian hunters, and the Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have derived its name from him. (Paus. iii. 26. 3, iv. 2. 3, 31. 9; Ov. Met. viii. 306; Apollod. iii. 10. 3, 11. 2.)
Leucippides (Leukippides), i. e. the daughters of the Messenian prince Leucippus. (Eurip. Helen. 1467.) Their names were Phoebe and Hilaeira, and they were priestesses of Athena and Artemis, and betrothed to Idas and Lynceus, the sons.of Aphareus; but Castor and Polydeuces being charmed with their beauty, carried them off and married them. (Apollod. iii. 12. 8, 10. 3; Paus. i. 18. 1). When the sons of Aphareus attempted to rescue their beloved brides, they were both slain by the Dioscuri. (Hygin. Fab. 80; Lactant. i. 10; Ov. Heroid. xvi. 327, Fast. v. 709; Theocrit.xxii. 137,&c.; Propert. i.2.15,&c.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Son of Isthmius, king of Messenia.
STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Cresphontes, a son of Aristomachus, who, with his brothers Temenus and Aristodemus,
conquered the Peloponnesus. This was the famous conquest achieved by the Heraclidae.
He and his two sons were subsequently slain by the Messenians.
Cresphontes Kresphontes), a Heracleid, a son of Aristomachus, and one of the conquerors of Peloponnesus, who obtained Messenia for his share. But during an insurrection of the Messenian nobles, he and two of his sons were slain. A third son, Aepytus, was induced by his mother, Merope, to avenge his father. (Apollod. ii. 8.4, &c.; Paus. ii. 18.6, iv. 3.3, 31.9, viii. 5. 34)
Aepytus. The younger son of Cresphontes, king of Messenia, and of Merope, daughter of the Arcadian king Cypselus. When his father and brothers were murdered during an insurrection, Aepytus, who was with his grandfather Cypselus, alone escaped. The throne of Cresphontes was meantime occupied by Polyphontes, who forced Merope to become his wife. When Aepytus had grown to manhood he returned to his kingdom, and put Polyphontes to death. From him the kings of Messenia were called Aepytidae.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aepytus. The youngest son of Cresphontes the Heraclid, king of Messenia, and of Merope, the daughter of the Arcadian king Cypselus. Cresphontes and his other sons were murdered during an insurrection, and Aepytus alone, who was educated in the house of his grandfather Cypselus, escaped the danger. The throne of Cresphontes was in the meantime occupied by the Heraclid Polyphontes, who also forced Merope to become his wife (Apollod. ii. 8.5). When Aepytus had grown to manhood, he was enabled by the aid of Holcas, his father-in-law, to return to his kingdom, punish the murderers of his father, and put Polyphontes to death. He left a son, Glaucus, and it [p. 36] was from him that subsequently the kings of Messenia were called Aepytids instead of the more general name Heraclids. (Paus. iv. 3.3, &c., viii. 5.5; Hygin. Fab. 137, 184)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Glaucus. A son of the Messenian king Aepytus, whom he succeeded on the throne. He distinguished himself by his piety towards the gods, and was the first who offered sacrifices to Machaon. (Paus. iv. 3.6.)
TETRAZIO (Mountain) IRA
An Arcadian nymph.
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Daughter of Oeneus.
KOLONIDES (Ancient city) EPIA
The city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but settlers from Attica brought by Colaenus, who followed a bird known as the crested lark to found the settlement in accordance with an oracle. They were, however, in the course of time to adopt the dialect and customs of the Dorians. The town of Colonides lies on high ground, a short distance from the sea.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
PYRGOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
A town in western Greece founded by the Minyae.
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