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PRASSIES (Ancient city) LEONIDION
Brasiae, Prasiai, Prasia, Brasiai, Eth. Brasiates, Prasieus. A town
on the eastern coast of Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the
Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia
by sea from Cyphanta. (Paus. iii. 24. § 3.) Scylax speaks of it as a city and
a harbour. The name of the town was derived by the inhabitants from the noise
of the waves (Brazein). It was burnt by the Athenians in the second year of the
Peloponnesian War, B.C. 430. (Thuc. ii. 56; Aristoph. Pac. 242.) Also in B.C.
414 the Athenians, in conjunction with the Argives, ravaged the coast near Prasiae.
(Thuc. vi. 105.) In the Macedonian period Prasiae, with other Laconian towns on
this coast, passed into the hands of the Argives (Polyb. iv. 36); whence Strabo
calls it one of the Argive towns (viii. p. 368), though in another passage he
says that it belonged at an earlier period to the Lacedaemonians (viii. p. 374).
It was restored to Laconia by Augustus, who made it one of the Eleuthero-Laconian
towns. (Paus. iii. 21. § 7, iii. 24. § 3.) Among the curiosities of Prasiae Pausanias
mentions a cave where Ino nursed Dionysus; a temple of Asclepius and another of
Achilles, and a small promontory upon which stood four brazen figures not more
than a foot in height. (Paus. iii. 24. §§ 4, 5.) Leake places Prasiae at St. Andrew
in the Thyreatis; but it more probably stood at Tyro, which is the site assigned
to it by Boblaye, Ross, and Curtius.
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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