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VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
Bruseiai, Bruseai, Brusiai. A town of Laconia, SW. of Sparta, at the
foot of the ordinary exit from Mt. Taygetus. Its name occurs in Homer, but it
had dwindled down to a small village in the time of Pausanias, who mentions, however,
a temple of Dionysus at the place, into which women alone were permitted to enter,
and of which they performed the sacred rites. Leake discovered the site of Bryseae
at the village of Sinanbey near Sklavokori. He remarks that the marble from Sklavokhori,
which was presented by the Earl of Aberdeen to the British Museum, probably came
from the above-mentioned temple at Bryseae: it bears the name of two priestesses,
and represents various articles of female apparel. Leake found another marble
at Sinanbey, which is also in the British Museum.
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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