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ITYLOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
Oitulos, Beitulos, Bitula, (kaleitai d hupo tinon Beitulos, Strab.
viii). A town of Laconia on the eastern side of the Messenian gulf, represented
by the modern town of Vitylo, which has borrowed its name from it. Pausanias says
that it was 80 stadia from Thalamae and 150 from Messa; the latter distance is
too great, but there is no doubt of the identity of Oetylus and Vitylo; and it
appears that Pausanias made a mistake in the names, as the distance between Oetylus
and Caenepolis is 150 stadia. Oetylus is mentioned by Homer, and was at a later
time one of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns. It was still governed by its ephors
in the third century of the Christian era. Pausanias saw at Oetylus a temple of
Sarapis, and a wooden statue of Apollo Carneius in the agora. Among the modern
houses of Vitylo there are remains of Hellenic walls, and in the church a beautiful
fluted Ionic column supporting a beam at one end of the aisle, and three or four
Ionic capitals in the wall of the church, probably the remains of the temple of
Sarapis.
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
(Oitulos), also Tylus (Tulos). An ancient town in Laconia on the Messenian Gulf.
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