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ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
A town of Laconia near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones,
containing temples of Dionysus and Artemis. This town was distant 30 stadia from
Gerenia, but its site is unknown.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
he Abia: nr. Zarnata. A town of Messenia, on the Messenian gulf, and
a little above the woody dell, named Choerius, which formed the boundary between
Messenia and Laconia in the time of Pausanias. It is said to have been the same
town as the Ira of the Iliad (ix. 292), one of the seven towns which Agamemnon
offered to Achilles, and to have derived its later name from Abia, the nurse of
Hyllus, the son of Hercules. Subsequently it belonged, with Thuria and Pharae,
to the Achaean League. It continued to be a place of some importance down to the
reign of Hadrian, as we learn from an extant inscription of that period.
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
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Gerenia, (Paus., Steph. B. s. v.); ta Gerena (Strab.); Gerenos (Hes.
Fragm. 22): Eth. Gerenios. A town of Messenia, where Nestor was said to have been
brought up after the destruction of Pylos, and whence he derived the surname Gerenian,
which occurs so frequently in Homer. There is, however, no town of this name in
Homer, and many of the ancient critics identified the later Gerenia with the Homeric
Enope. (Il. i. 150; Pans. iii. 26. § 9; Strab. viii. p. 360.) Under the Roman
empire Gerenia was the most northerly of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns, and was
situated on the eastern side of the Messenian gulf, upon the mountainous promontory
now called Cape Kephali. It possessed a celebrated sanctuary of Machaon, which
bore the name of Rhodon. Pausanias says that in the district of Gerenia there
was a mountain called Calathium, upon which there was a sanctuary of Claea, and
close to the latter a cavern, of which the entrance was narrow, though within
there were many things worthy to be seen. (Paus. iii. 26. § 11.) This cavern is
undoubtedly the one noticed by Leake, which is situated at the head of a little
valley behind the beach of Kitries, and immediately under a rocky gorge in the
mountains: at present the entrance is not narrow, but it appears to have been
widened to make it more convenient for a sheep-fold, for which purpose it is at
present used. Leake observed two or three sepulchral niches in the side of the
cliffs about the valley. Two very ancient inscriptions discovered at Gerenia are
published by Bockh. (Corp. Inscr. no. 13, 42.)
Gerenia is placed by the French Commission at Zarnta, about three
miles from the coast, where a castle built by the Franks rests upon very ancient
foundations. But Leake observes that the words of Pausanias (iii. 26. § 11) -
I erenias de hos es eesopsaian ano triakonta atechei stadious Alapsonia - leave
little or no doubt that Gerenia was a maritime town, and that it is now represented
by Kitries on the coast. He further supposes that Zarnata is the site of Alagonia.
But since the most ancient towns in Greece were almost universally built at some
distance from the coast, it is not improbable that the acropolis and the original
town of Gerenia stood at Zarnata, but that the town itself was afterwards removed
to the coast.
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
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
A town of Messenia on the Messenian Gulf, and at one time a member of the Achaean League.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Alagonia is considered to be the extensive mountainous area in the west part of the mountain range of Taygetos, on the borders between the provinces of Messinia and Lakonia and includes the villages of Alagonia, Artemisia, Ladas, Karveli, Nedousa and Piges which were named Pisinohoria during the turkish rule. It got its name from the ancient city Alagonia which belonged to the Eleftherolakones (=free Lakones) in Mani. at Artemisia and in the area of Volimos there was the famous Temple of Limnatidos Artemidos where the incident between Messinian men and the women from ancient Sparta took place in the early 8th century B.C. and caused the Peloponnesean wars(740-460 B.C). During the Roman era, it had become a part of the «Public of the Freelakones».
This extract is cited Oct 2002 from the Messenia Prefecture Tourism Promotion Commission URL below.
It is suggested that the ancient city is located near the Anatoliko village.
A site occupied in mediaeval times by the fortress of Zarnata, S of the modern town of Kambos on the Mani peninsula. Pausanias (3.26.11) lists it among the Free Lakonian cities and mentions Sanctuaries of Dionysos and Artemis. There are traces of polygonal masonry in the facade of the fortress.
M. H. Mc Allister, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Oct 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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