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SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
The Lacedaemonians who live in Sparta have a market-place worth seeing; the council-chamber of the senate, and the offices of the ephors, of the guardians of the laws, and of those called the Bidiaeans, are all in the market-place.
AMYKLES (Ancient sanctuary) SPARTI
On the altar are wrought in relief, here an image of Biris, there Amphitrite and
Poseidon. Zeus and Hermes are conversing; near stand Dionysus and Semele, with
Ino by her side. On the altar are also Demeter, the Maid, Pluto, next to them
Fates and Seasons, and with them Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis. They are carrying
to heaven Hyacinthus and Polyboea, the sister, they say, of Hyacinthus, who died
a maid. Now this statue of Hyacinthus represents him as bearded, but Nicias, son
of Nicomedes, has painted him in the very prime of youthful beauty, hinting at
the love of Apollo for Hyacinthus of which legend tells. Wrought on the altar
is also Heracles; he too is being led to heaven by Athena and the other gods.
On the altar are also the daughters of Thestius, Muses and Seasons. As for the
West Wind, how Apollo unintentionally killed Hyacinthus, and the story of the
flower, we must be content with the legends, although perhaps they are not true
history.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
They also say that a snake, which they were bringing from their home in Epidaurus, escaped from the ship, and disappeared into the ground not far from the sea. As a result of the portent of the snake together with the vision in their dreams they resolved to remain and settle here. There are altars to Asclepius where the snake disappeared, with olive trees growing round them.
There is a place having its porticoes in the form of a square, where of old stuff used to be sold to the people. By this is an altar of Zeus Counsellor and of Athena Counsellor, also of the Dioscuri, likewise surnamed Counsellors. By "Councellor", we mean the god who either gives advice when needed or postpones a misfortune for later, so that it can be easily faced (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol.2, p. 352, note 2). See also (Paus. 3,13,6).
KYFAS (Ancient city) ZARAKAS
After an ascent of ten stades inland are the ruins of the so-called Cyphanta, among which is a cave sacred to Asclepius; the image is of stone.
AMYKLES (Ancient sanctuary) SPARTI
Amyclae was laid waste by the Dorians, and since that time has remained a village; I found there a sanctuary and image of Alexandra worth seeing. Alexandra is said by the Amyclaeans to be Cassandra, the daughter of Priam.
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Assopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and about twelve stades inland from the city is a sanctuary of Asclepius. They call the god Philolaus.
On the citadel is also a sanctuary of Athena, surnamed Kyparissia (Cypress Goddess).
EGILA (Ancient city) ANATOLIKI MANI
There is a place Aegila in Laconia, where is a sanctuary sacred to Demeter. Aristomenes and his men knowing that the women were keeping festival there . . . the women were inspired by the goddess to defend themselves.
ELAFONISSOS (Island) PELOPONNISOS
Two hundred stades from Assopus there juts out into the sea a headland, which they call Onugnathus (Jaw of an Ass). Here is a sanctuary of Athena, having neither image nor roof. Agamemnon is said to have made it.
ELOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
From this Helos, on stated days, they bring up to the sanctuary of the Eleusinian a wooden image of the Maid, daughter of Demeter.
EPIDAVROS LIMIRA (Ancient city) MONEMVASSIA
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor.
ERMES (Ancient location) LACONIA
On the way from the Hermae the whole of the region is full of oak-trees. The name of the district, Scotitas (Dark), is not due to the unbroken woods but to Zeus surnamed Scotitas, and there is a sanctuary of Zeus Scotitas on the left of the road and about ten stades from it.
GYTHION (Ancient city) LACONIA
In another part of the city are Carnean Apollo, a sanctuary of Ammon and a bronze image of Asclepius.
In another part of the city are Carnean Apollo, a sanctuary of Ammon and a bronze image of Asclepius, whose temple is roofless, a spring belonging to the god, a holy sanctuary of Demeter and an image of Poseidon Earth-embracer.
IPPOLA (Ancient city) ITYLO
Thirty stades distant is Thyrides, a headland of Taenarum, with the ruins of a city Hippola; among them is a sanctuary of Athena Hippolaitis.
ITI (Ancient city) VOION
The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. Among the ruins is a not insignificant sanctuary of Asclepius and Health.
ITYLOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
In Oetylus the sanctuary of Sarapis, and in the market-place a wooden image of Apollo Carneius are worth seeing.
KENI POLIS (Ancient city) ITYLO
Certain Lacedaemonians who had been condemned to death on some charge fled as suppliants to Taenarum but the board of ephors dragged them from the altar there and put them to death.
LAS (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Across the river is an ancient shrine . . . further from an altar of Zeus.
PELLANA (Mycenean settlement) PELANA
Remarkable sights I remember seeing here were a sanctuary of Asclepius and the spring Pellanis.
PYRRICHOS (Ancient city) ANATOLIKI MANI
The sanctuaries of the gods, that they have in the country, are of Artemis, called Astrateia, because the Amazons stayed their advance (strateia) here, and an Apollo Amazonius. Both gods are represented by wooden images, said to have been dedicated by the women from Thermodon.
The sanctuaries of the gods, that they have in the country, are of Artemis, called Astrateia, because the Amazons stayed their advance (strateia) here, and an Apollo Amazonius. Both gods are represented by wooden images, said to have been dedicated by the women from Thermodon.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
On the opposite side of the office of the Bidiaeans is a sanctuary of Athena. Odysseus is said to have set up the image and to have named it Keleuthea (Lady of the Road), when he had beaten the suitors of Penelope in the foot-race. Of Keleuthea he set up sanctuaries, three in number, at some distance from each other.
Sanctuary of Earth.
At the end of the Aphetaid Road, quite close to the wall, are a sanctuary of Dictynna and the royal graves of those called the Eurypontidae.
Beside the Hellenium is a sanctuary of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus and sister of the wives of Polydeuces and Castor.
There is also a sanctuary of Maron and of Alpheius. Of the Lacedaemonians who served at Thermopylae they consider that these men distinguished themselves in the fighting more than any save Leonidas himself.
The sanctuary of Zeus Tropaean (He who turns to flight) was made by the Dorians, when they had conquered in war the Amyclaeans, as well as the other Achaeans, who at that time occupied Laconia.
The sanctuary of the Great Mother has paid to it the most extraordinary honors.
Not far from the Dionysus is a sanctuary of Zeus of Fair Wind, on the right of which is a hero-shrine of Pleuron.
An oracular utterance caused to be built a sanctuary of Hera Hyperchemia (she whose hand is above) at a time when the Eurotas was flooding a great part of the land.
Not far from the lounge is a sanctuary of Asclepius, called "in the place of the Agiadae".
Here are sanctuaries of Poseidon Hippocurius (Horse-tending) and of Artemis Aiginaea.
Here are sanctuaries of Poseidon Hippocurius (Horse-tending) and of Artemis Aiginaea (Goat-goddess?).
On returning to the lounge you see a sanctuary of Artemis Issoria. They surname her also Lady of the Lake, though she is not really Artemis hut Britomartis of Crete.
The sanctuary of Thetis was set up, they say, for the following
reason. The Lacedaemonians were making war against the Messenians, who had revolted,
and their king Anaxander, having invaded Messenia, took prisoners certain women,
and among them Cleo, priestess of Thetis. This Cleo the wife of Anaxander asked
for from her husband, and discovering that she had the wooden image of Thetis,
she set up with her a temple for the goddess. This Leandris did because of a vision
in a dream, but the wooden image of Thetis is guarded in secret.
The Spartans have also a sanctuary of Serapis, the newest sanctuary in the city.
The Spartans have also a sanctuary of Serapis, the newest sanctuary in the city, and one of Zeus surnamed Olympian.
Farther away from the Course are sanctuaries of the Dioscuri, of the Graces, of Eileithyia, of Apollo Carneus, and of Artemis Leader.
Farther away from the Course are sanctuaries of the Dioscuri, of the Graces, of Eileithyia, of Apollo Carneus, and of Artemis Leader.
Farther away from the Course are sanctuaries of the Dioscuri, of the Graces, of Eileithyia, of Apollo Carneus, and of Artemis Leader.
Farther away from the Course are sanctuaries of the Dioscuri, of the Graces, of Eileithyia, of Apollo Carneus, and of Artemis Leader.
Farther away from the Course are sanctuaries of the Dioscuri, of the Graces, of Eileithyia, of Apollo Carneus, and of Artemis Leader.
The sanctuary of Agnitas has been made on the right of the Course; Agnitas is a surname of Asclepius, because the god had a wooden image of agnus castus. The agnus is a willow like the thorn.
Beside the shrine of Alcon is a sanctuary of Poseidon, whom they surname "of the House".
There are sanctuaries of Helen and of Heracles; the former is near the grave of Alcman.
There are sanctuaries of Helen and of Heracles; the former is near the grave of Alcman, the latter is quite close to the wall and contains an armed image of Heracles. The attitude of the image is due, they say, to the fight with Hippocoon and his sons.
As you go from the Course towards the east, there is a path on the right, with a sanctuary of Athena called Axiopoinos (Just Requital or Tit for Tat). For when Heracles, in avenging himself on Hippocoon and his sons, had inflicted upon them a just requital for their treatment of his relative, he founded a sanctuary of Athena, and surnamed her Axiopoinos because the ancients used to call vengeance poinai.
(Axiopoinos), the avenger, a surname of Athena. Under this name Heracles built
a temple to the goddess at Sparta, after he had chastised Hippocoon and his sons
for the murder of Oeonus. (Paus. iii. 15.4.)
There is another sanctuary of Athena on another road from the Course. It was dedicated, they say, by Theras son of Autesion son of Tisamenus son of Thersander, when he was leading a colony to the island now called Thera after him, the name of which in ancient times was Calliste (Fairest).
The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who surname Hera Goat-eater,
and sacrifice goats to the goddess. They say that Heracles founded the sanctuary
and was the first to sacrifice goats, because in his fight against Hippocoon and
his children he met with no hindrance from Hera, although in his other adventures
he thought that the goddess opposed him. He sacrificed goats, they say, because
he lacked other kinds of victims.
Not far from the theater is a sanctuary of Poseidon God of Kin.
The most famous of their sanctuaries of Asclepius has been built near Booneta.
The most famous of their sanctuaries of Asclepius has been built near Booneta, and on the left is the hero-shrine of Teleclus.
A little farther on is a small hill, on which is an ancient
temple with a wooden image of Aphrodite armed. This is the only temple I know
that has an upper storey built upon it. It is a sanctuary of Morpho, a surname
of Aphrodite, who sits wearing a veil and with fetters on her feet. The story
is that the fetters were put on her by Tyndareus, who symbolized by the bonds
the faithfulness of wives to their husbands. The other account, that Tyndareus
punished the goddess with fetters because he thought that from Aphrodite had come
the shame of his daughters, I will not admit for a moment. For it were surely
altogether silly to expect to punish the goddess by making a cedar figure and
naming it Aphrodite.
Near is a sanctuary of Hilaeira and of Phoebe. The author of
the poem Cypria calls them daughters of Apollo. Their priestesses are young maidens,
called, as are also the goddesses, Leucippides (Daughter of Leucippus). One of
the images was adorned by a Leucippis who had served the goddesses as a priestess.
She gave it a face of modern workmanship instead of the old one; she was forbidden
by a dream to adorn the other one as well. Here there his been hung from the roof
an egg tied to ribands, and they say that it is the famous egg that legend says
Leda brought forth.
The Lacedaemonians have also made a sanctuary for Lycurgus, who drew up the laws, looking upon him as a god.
The place named Limnaeum (Marshy) is sacred to Artemis Orthia (Upright). The wooden image there they say is that which once Orestes and Iphigenia stole out of the Tauric land, and the Lacedaemonians say that it was brought to their land because there also Orestes was king.
Not far from the Orthia is a sanctuary of Eileithyia. They say that they built it, and came to worship Eileithyia as a goddess, because of an oracle from Delphi.
There are hills in the city, and the highest of them they call
the citadel. Here is built a sanctuary of Athena, who is called both City-protecting
and Lady of the BronzeHouse. The building of the sanctuary was begun, they say,
by Tyndareus. On his death his children were desirous of making a second attempt
to complete the building, and the resources they intended to use were the spoils
of Aphidna. They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that
the Lacedaemonians made of bronze both the temple and the image of Athena. The
builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta.
There is here another sanctuary of Athena; her surname is the Worker.
On the left of the Lady of the Bronze House they have set up a sanctuary of the Muses, because the Lacedaemonians used to go out to fight, not to the sound of the trumpet, but to the music of the flute and the accompaniment of lyre and harp.
Farther on from here is a sanctuary of Ammon. From the first the Lacedaemonians are known to have used the oracle in Libya more than any other Greeks. It is said also that when Lysander was besieging Aphytis in Pallene Ammon appeared by night and declared that it would be better for him and for Lacedaemon if they ceased from warring against Aphytis.
The story of Artemis Cnagia is as follows. Cnageus, they say,
was a native who joined the Dioscuri in their expedition against Aphidna. Being
taken prisoner in the battle and sold into Crete, he lived as a slave where the
Cretans had a sanctuary of Artemis; but in course of time he ran away in the company
of the maiden priestess, who took the image with her. It is for this reason that
they name Artemis Cnagia. But I am of opinion that Cnageus came to Crete in some
other way, and not in the manner the Lacedaemonians state; for I do not think
there was a battle at Aphidna at all, Theseus being detained among the Thesprotians
and the Athenians not being unanimous, their sympathies inclining towards Menestheus.
Moreover, even if a fight occurred, nobody would believe that prisoners were taken
from the conquerors, especially as the victory was overwhelming, so that Aphidna
itself was captured.
I must now end my criticisms. As you go down to Amyclae from Sparta you come to a river called Tiasa. They hold that Tiasa was a daughter of Eurotas, and by it is a sanctuary of Graces, Phaenna and Cleta, as Alcman calls them in a poem. They believe that Lacedaemon founded the sanctuary for the Graces here, and gave them their names.
On the road from Sparta to Arcadia there stands in the open an image of Athena surnamed Pareia, and after it is a sanctuary of Achilles. This it is not customary to open, but all the youths who are going to take part in the contest in Plane-tree Grove are wont to sacrifice to Achilles before the fight. The Spartans say that the sanctuary was made for them by Prax, a grandson of Pergamus the son of Neoptolemus.
On the road is a precinct of Cranius surnamed Stemmatias, and a sanctuary of Mysian Artemis.
Place near Therapne.
At Sparta there is a shrine of Talthybius . . .
TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Between Taletum and Euoras is a place they name Therae, where they say Leto from the Peaks of Taygetus ... is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Eleusinian. Here according to the Lacedaemonian story Heracles was hidden by Asclepius while he was being healed of a wound. In the sanctuary is a wooden image of Orpheus, a work, they say, of Pelasgians.
TEFTHRONI (Ancient city) ANATOLIKI MANI
The inhabitants honor Artemis Issoria most of the Gods.
THERAPNI (Ancient city) SPARTI
Before the Eurotas is crossed, a little above the bank is shown a sanctuary of Zeus Wealthy.
Of all the objects along this road the oldest is a sanctuary
of Ares. This is on the left of the road, and the image is said to have been brought
from Colchis by the Dioscuri. They surname him Theritas after Thero, who is said
to have been the nurse of Ares. Perhaps it was from the Colchians that they heard
the name Theritas, since the Greeks know of no Thero, nurse of Ares. My own belief
is that the surname Theritas was not given to Ares because of his nurse, but because
when a man meets an enemy in battle he must cast aside all gentleness.
The fountain Polydeucea and a sanctuary of Polydeuces are on the right of the road to Therapne.
Place near Therapne.
Not far from Therapne is what is called Phoebaeum, in which is a temple of the Dioscuri. Here the youths sacrifice to Enyalius. At no great distance from it stands a sanctuary of Poseidon surnamed Earth-embracer.
YPERTELEATON (Ancient sanctuary) ASSOPOS
There is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum.
YPSI (Ancient location) LAKEDEMON
Some thirty stades from the Apollo is a place Hypsoi, within the Spartan frontier. Here is a sanctuary of Asclepius and of Artemis called Daphnaea (of the laurel).
AMYKLES (Ancient sanctuary) SPARTI
The part of the throne where the god would sit is not continuous;
there are several seats, and by the side of each seat is left a wide empty space,
the middle, whereon the image stands, being the widest of them. I know of nobody
who has measured the height of the image, but at a guess one would estimate it
to be as much as thirty cubits. It is not the work of Bathycles, being old and
uncouth; for though it has face, feet, and hands, the rest resembles a bronze
pillar. On its head it has a helmet, in its hands a spear and a bow. The pedestal
of the statue is fashioned into the shape of an altar and they say that Hyacinthus
is buried in it.
ERMES (Ancient location) LACONIA
If you go back from the sanctuary to the road, advance a little and then turn again to the left, you come to an image of Heracles and a trophy, which I was told Heracles raised after killing Hippocoon and his sons.
GYTHION (Ancient city) LACONIA
In the market-place they have images of Apollo and of Heracles, and a Dionysus stands near them.
In the market-place they have images of Apollo and of Heracles, and a Dionysus stands near them.
In the market-place they have images of Apollo and of Heracles, and a Dionysus stands near them.
In another part of the city are Carnean Apollo, a sanctuary of Ammon and a bronze image of Asclepius.
In another part of the city are Carnean Apollo, a sanctuary of Ammon and a bronze image of Asclepius, whose temple is roofless, a spring belonging to the god, a holy sanctuary of Demeter and an image of Poseidon Earth-embracer.
ITI (Ancient city) VOION
The ruins of Etis are not more than seven stades distant from Boeae. On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes.
ITYLOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
In Oetylus the sanctuary of Sarapis, and in the market-place a wooden image of Apollo Carneius are worth seeing.
KARYES (Ancient city) LAKEDEMONA
For Caryae is a region sacred to Artemis and the nymphs, and here stands in the open an image of Artemis Caryatis. Here every year the Lacedaemonian maidens hold chorus-dances, and they have a traditional native dance.
A draped female figure substituted for a column supporting an entablature. Caryatids occur only rarely in Greek architecture. Their earliest appearance is in a cluster of Ionic treasuries built at Delphi in the mid 6th c. B.C. and the Lyons kore of similar date from the Athenian Acropolis. They are not employed again until the Erechtheion (421-406 B.C.), after which their next use is in the Limyra heroon (370-350 B.C.) in Lycia.
The distinctive costume, pose and hairstyle of caryatids are presumably related to both their function and meaning. Their origin and significance, however, remain controversial. Suggested explanations for their origin include Oriental influence, borrowing of forms in the minor arts, and the adaption of figures found on perirrhanteria (ritual water basins). The meaning of their iconography has been sought in both historical-political events (Vitruvius) and religious beliefs (as nymph-intercessors).
Vitruvius 1.1.5: The female figures in architecture that supported burdens are said to have been called Caryatids in token of the abject slavery to which the women of Caryae (a town in Laconia near the borders of Arcadia, originally belonging to the territory of Tegea in Arcadia) were reduced by the Greeks, as a punishment for joining the Persians at the invasion of Greece.
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A wide knowledge of history is requisite because, among the ornamental parts of an architect's design for a work, there are many the underlying idea of whose employment he should be able to explain to inquirers. For instance, suppose him to set up the marble statues of women in long robes, called Caryatides, to take the place of columns, with the mutules and coronas placed directly above their heads, he will give the following explanation to his questioners. Caryae, a state in Peloponnesus, sided with the Persian enemies against Greece; later the Greeks, having gloriously won their freedom by victory in the war, made common cause and declared war against the people of Caryae. They took the town, killed the men, abandoned the State to desolation, and carried off their wives into slavery, without permitting them, however, to lay aside the long robes and other marks of their rank as married women, so that they might be obliged not only to march in the triumph but to appear forever after as a type of slavery, burdened with the weight of their shame and so making atonement for their State. Hence, the architects of the time designed for public buildings statues of these women, placed so as to carry a load, in order that the sin and the punishment of the people of Caryae might be known and handed down even to posterity.
Likewise the Lacedaemonians under the leadership of Pausanias, son of Agesipolis, after conquering the Persian
armies, infinite in number, with a small force at the battle of Plataea, celebrated a glorious triumph with the spoils and booty, and with the money obtained from the sale thereof built the Persian Porch, to be a monument to the renown and valour of the people and a trophy of victory for posterity. And there they set effigies of the prisoners arrayed in barbarian costume and holding up the roof, their pride punished by this deserved affront, that enemies might tremble for fear of the effects of their courage, and that their own people, looking upon this ensample of their valour and encouraged by the glory of it, might be ready to defend their independence. So from that time on, many have put up statues of Persians supporting entablatures and their ornaments, and thus from that motive have greatly enriched the diversity of their works. There are other stories of the same kind which architects ought to know.
KROKEES (Ancient city) LACONIA
Here before the village stands an image of Zeus of Croceae in marble.
LAS (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Even now there are ruins of the old town, with a statue of Heracles outside the walls, and a trophy for a victory over the Macedonians.
Near the present town is a spring called Galaco (Milky) from the colour of the water, and beside the spring a gymnasium, which contains an ancient statue of Hermes.
NYMFEON (Ancient port) VOION
On the voyage from Boeae towards the point of Malea is a harbor called Nymphaeum, with a statue of Poseidon standing.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Not far from these is a precinct of Poseidon of Taenarum, which is the surname given him, and near by an image of Athena, which is said to have been dedicated by the colonists who left for Tarentum in Italy.
By the Canopy is a circular building, and in it images of Zeus and Aphrodite surnamed Olympian. This, they say, was set up by Epimenides
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