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ARTEMISSION (Mountain) LYRKIA
Artemisium. A mountain forming the boundary between Argolis and Arcadia, with a temple of Artemis on its summit. It is 5814 feet in height, and is now called the Mountain of Turniki. (Paus. ii. 25.3, viii. 5.6; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 203.)
INOI (Ancient city) LYRKIA
Or Oene (Oine). A small town in the Argeia, west of Argos, on the
left bank of the river Charadrus, and on the southern (the Prinus) of the two
roads leading from Argos to Mantineia. Above the town was the mountain Artemisium
(Malevos), with a temple of Artemis on the summit, worshipped by the inhabitants
of Oenoe under the name of Oenoatis (Oinoatis). The town was named by Diomedes
after his grandfather Oeneus, who died here. In the neighbourhood of this town
the Athenians and Argives gained a victory over the Lacedaemonians. Leake originally
placed Oenoe near the left bank of the Charadrus; but in his later work he has
changed his opinion, and supposes it to have stood near the right bank of the
Inachus. His original supposition, however, seems to be the correct one; since
there can be little doubt that Ross has rightly described the course of the two
roads leading from Argos to Mantineia.
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
LYRKIA (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Lyrceia, Lyrceium (he Lurkeia, Lurkeion, in Strab. viii. p. 376, Lukourgion
is a false reading for Lurkeion). A town in the Argeia, distant 60 stadia from
Argos, and 60 stadia from Orneae, and situated on the road Climax, which ran from
Argos in a north-westerly direction along the bed of the Inachus. The town is
said to have been originally called Lynceia, and to have obtained this name from
Lynceus, who fled hither when all his other brothers, the sons of Aegyptus, were
murdered by the daughters of Danaus on their wedding night. He gave intelligence
of his safe arrival in this place to his faithful wife Hypermnestra, by holding
up a torch; and she in like manner informed him of her safety by raising a torch
from Larissa, the citadel of Argos. The name of the town was afterwards changed
into Lyrceia from Lyrcus, a son of Abas. It was in ruins in the time of Pausanias.
Its remains may still be seen on a small elevation on the left of the Inachus,
at a little distance beyond Sterna, on the road to Argos.
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
INOI (Ancient city) LYRKIA
A town of Argolis, west of Argos. Here the Argives and Athenians defeated the Lacedaemonians, B.C. 388.
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