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TITANI (Ancient city) SIKYON
Titana, Eth. Titanios. A place in the Sicyonia, upon the left bank
of the Asopus, distant 60 stadia from Sicyon, and 40 from Phlius. It was situated
upon the summit of a hill, where Titan, the brother of the Sun, is said to have
dwelt, and to have given his name to the spot. It was celebrated for a temple
of Asclepius, reported to have been built by Alexander, the son of Machaon, the
son of Asclepius. This temple still existed in the time of Pausanias, in the middle
of a grove of cypress trees, in which the servants of the god attended to the
patients who came thither for the recovery of their health. Within the temple
stood statues of Asclepius and Hygieia, and of the heroes Alexanor and Euamerion.
There was also a temple of Athena at Titane, situated upon a hill, and containing
an ancient wooden statue of the goddess. In descending from the hill there was
an altar of the Winds. (Paus. ii. 11. § § 5 - 8, ii. 12. § 1, ii. 27. § 1.) Stephanus
B. refers the Titanoio te leuka karena of Homer (Il. ii. 735) to Titane, but those
words indicate a mountain in Thessaly. The ruins of Titane were first discovered
by Ross. Leake heard that there were some ancient foundations on the summit of
the hill above Liopesi, which he supposed to be the remains of the temple of Asclepius
at Titane; but although Hellenic remains exist at this site, there can be no doubt
that Titane is represented by the more important Paleokastron situated further
S., and a few minutes N. of the village of Voivonda. This Paleokastron stands
upon a projecting spur of the mountains which run eastward towards the Asopus,
and terminate just above the river in a small hill, which is surrounded by beautiful
Hellenic walls, rising to the height of 20 or 30 ft. on the S. and SW. side, and
flanked by three or four quadrangular towers. On this hill there stands a chapel
of St. Tryphon, containing fragments of Doric columns. This was evidently the
acropolis of the ancient city, and here stood the temple of Athena mentioned by
Pausanias. The other parts of this projecting ridge are covered with ancient foundations;
and upon this part of the mountain the temple of Asclepius must have stood. (Leake,
Morea, vol. iii. p. 354, seq.; Ross, Reisen im Peloponnes, p. 49, seq.; Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 500, seq.)
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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