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KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
The statue of Athena also on the acropolis is of bronze, and stands in the open air, holding a crow in her hand (Paus. 4,34,6).
The statues of Asclepius and Dionysus are of stone, but there is a statue of Zeus the Saviour in the market-place made of bronze (Paus. 4,34,6).
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the goddess reveals whatever they wish to learn, in dreams. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary. It was not possible to see the one within the temple clearly, owing to the garlands, but they say this too is of bronze.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
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KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
When Cyparissiae is reached from Pylos, there is a spring below the city near the sea, the water of which they say gushed forth for Dionysus when he struck he ground with a thyrsus. For this reason they call the spring Dionysias.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth seeing here are temples of Dionysus and of Artemis.
Thirty stades inland from Gerenia is Alagonia, a town which I have already mentioned in the list of the Free Laconians. Worth seeing here are temples of Dionysus and of Artemis.
ASSINI (Ancient city) KORONI
...But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes, and clearly have made the most holy of their sanctuaries in memory of those which they once had, established on Parnassus. For they have both a temple of Apollo and again a temple and ancient statue of Dryops, whose mysteries they celebrate every year, saying that he is the son of Apollo
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius.
There was a notable temple of Heracles here, and also of Asclepius.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
But the surest warrant for their account of the Asclepiadae is that they point to a tomb of Machaon in Gerenia and to the sanctuary of his sons at Pharae.
Isthmius the son of Glaucus built a shrine also to Gorgasus and Nicomachus which is in Pharae.
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
Here in Gerenia is a tomb of Machaon, son of Asclepius, and a holy sanctuary. In his temple men may find cures for diseases. They call the holy spot Rhodos; there is a standing bronze statue of Machaon, with a crown on his head which the Messenians in the local speech call kiphos.
In the territory of Gerenia is a mountain, Calathium; on it is a sanctuary of Claea with a cave close beside it.
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
There is a shrine of Apollo in Cyparissiae.
There is a shrine of Apollo in Cyparissiae and of Athena with the title Cyparissia.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
On the acropolis is a sanctuary and image of Athena.
There is a temple and grove of Eros in Leuctra. Water flows through the grove in winter-time, but the leaves which are shaken from the trees by the wind would not be carried away by the water even in flood.
LIMNES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis (Of the lake). They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here.
The temple of Artemis at Limnae, at which the Messenians are reputed to have outraged the maidens who had come to the sacrifice, is on the boundaries between Laconia and Messenia, where both peoples held assemblies and offered sacrifice in common; and they say that it was after the outraging of the maidens, when the Messenians refused to give satisfaction for the act, that the war took place.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
There are sanctuaries of the gods Poseidon and Aphrodite.
There are sanctuaries of the gods Poseidon and Aphrodite.
Pausanias states that there they made burnt offerings (Paus. 4,31,9).
There is a holy shrine of Demeter at Messene.
The most numerous statues and the most worth seeing are to be found in the sanctuary of Asclepius. For besides statues of the god and his sons, and besides statues of Apollo, the Muses and Heracles, the city of Thebes is represented and Epaminondas the son of Cleommis, Fortune, and Artemis Bringer of Light. There are paintings of the kings of Messene: before the coming of the Dorian host to Peloponnese, Aphareus and his sons, after the return of the Heracleidae, Cresphontes the Dorian leader, of the inhabitants of Pylos, Nestor, Thrasymedes and Antilochus, singled out from among the sons of Nestor on the score of age and because they took part in the expedition to Troy. There is Leucippus brother of Aphareus, Hilaeira and Phoebe, and with them Arsinoe. Asclepius too is represented, also Machaon and Podaleirius. These pictures were painted by Omphalion.
There is also a bronze statue of Aristomenes in the Messenian running-ground. Not far from the theater is a sanctuary of Sarapis and Isis.
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
There is also a shrine of Artemis here and water in a well mixed with pitch, in appearance very like the iris-oil of Cyzicos.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The city of Neleus contains a sanctuary of Athena with the title Coryphasia.
THOURIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The people of Thuria left their town, which lay originally on high ground, and came down to live in the plain. Nevertheless the upper town is not entirely deserted, but there are remains of the wall and a temple there, called the temple of the Syrian Goddess.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
There is also a bronze statue of Aristomenes in the Messenian running-ground.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius according to the local Dorian custom.
KARNASSION (Ancient city) MELIGALAS
There are statues of the gods Apollo Carneius
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LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The inhabitants honor Asclepius most of the gods. There is a stone statue of Asclepius.
There is a stone statue of Asclepius, and of Ino in another place.
There are wooden images of Apollo Carneius according to the same custom that prevails among the Lacedaemonians of Sparta.
I record an event which I know to have taken place in my time on the coast of Leuctra. A fire carried by the wind into a wood destroyed most of the trees, and when the place showed bare, a statue of Zeus of Ithome was found to have been dedicated there. The Messenians say that this is evidence that Leuctra was formerly a part of Messenia. But it is possible, if the Lacedaemonians originally lived in Leuctra, that Zeus of Ithome might be worshipped among them.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
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MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
The Messenians possess a statue of Zeus the Saviour in the market-place.
There are sanctuaries of the gods Poseidon and Aphrodite, and, what is most deserving of mention, a statue of the Mother of the Gods, of Parian marble, the work of Damophon, the artist who repaired the Zeus at Olympia with extreme accuracy when the ivory parted.
Surname of Artemis at Calydon and Patrae, festival of Artemis, image of L. at Messene.
There is a holy shrine of Demeter at Messene and statues of the Dioscuri, carrying the daughters of Leucippus. I have already explained in an earlier passage that the Messenians argue that the sons of Tyndareus belong to them rather than to the Lacedaemonians.
PEFNOS (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Twenty stades from Thalamae is a place called Pephnus on the coast. In front of it lies a small island no larger than a big rock, also called Pephnus. In this little island there are bronze statues of the Dioscuri, a foot high, in the open air. The sea will not move them, though in winter-time it washes over the rock, which is wonderful.
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the goddess reveals whatever they wish to learn, in dreams. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary. It was not possible to see the one within the temple clearly, owing to the garlands, but they say this too is of bronze. Pasiphae is a title of the Moon, and is not a local goddess of the people of Thalamae.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks
From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary.
ASSINI (Ancient city) KORONI
...But the men of Asine take the greatest pleasure in being called Dryopes, and clearly have made the most holy of their sanctuaries in memory of those which they once had, established on Parnassus. For they have both a temple of Apollo and again a temple and ancient statue of Dryops, whose mysteries they celebrate every year, saying that he is the son of Apollo.
AVLON (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
In the depression called Aulon there is a temple and statue of Asclepius Aulonius.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
The people of Pharae possess also a temple of Fortune (Tyche) and an ancient image.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
The gods who have temples here are Artemis, called the "Nurse of Children", Dionysus and Asclepius (Paus. 4,34,6).
The gods who have temples here are Artemis, called the "Nurse of Children", Dionysus and Asclepius (Paus. 4,34,6).
The gods who have temples here are Artemis, called the "Nurse of Children", Dionysus and Asclepius (Paus. 4,34,6).
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Also a temple and statue have been erected to Cassandra the daughter of Priam, called Alexandra by the natives.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
The Messenians have a temple erected to Eileithyia with a stone statue.
There is also a temple of Messene the daughter of Triopas with a statue of gold and Parian marble.
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
In Mothone is a temple of Athena Of the Winds, with a statue dedicated, it is said, by Diomede, who gave the goddess her name. The country being damaged by violent and unseasonable blasts, Diomede prayed to the goddess, and henceforward no disaster caused by the winds has visited their country.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
I also saw the tomb of Epimelides (Paus. 4,34,6).
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
There is also the tomb of Aristomenes here (at the Hierothesion). They say that it is not a cenotaph, but when I asked whence and in what manner they recovered the bones of Aristomenes, they said that they sent to Rhodes for them, and that it was the god of Delphi who ordered it.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
His (Nestor's') tomb is inside the city.
The tomb at a little distance from Pylos is said to be the tomb of Thrasymedes.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
Cardamyle, which is mentioned by Homer in the Gifts promised by Agamemnon, is subject to the Lacedaemonians of Sparta, having been separated from Messenia by the emperor Augustus. It is eight stades from the sea and sixty from Leuctra. Here not far from the beach is a precinct sacred to the daughters of Nereus. They say that they came up from the sea to this spot to see Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, when he was going to Sparta to wed Hermione.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
On this road is a place on the coast regarded as sacred to Ino. For they say that she came up from the sea at this point, after her divinity had been accepted and her name changed from Ino to Leucothea (Paus. 4,34,4).
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
The place called Hierothesion by the Messenians contains statues of all the gods whom the Greeks worship, and also a bronze image of Epaminondas. Ancient tripods are dedicated there.The statues in the gymnasium represent Hermes, Heracles and Theseus.
Round Messene is a wall, the whole circuit of which is built of stone, with towers and battlements upon it. I have not seen the walls at Babylon or the walls of Memnon at Susa in Persia, nor have I heard the account of any eye-witness; but the walls at Ambrossos in Phocis, at Byzantium and at Rhodes, all of them the most strongly fortified places, are not so strong as the Messenian wall.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The city of Neleus contains a house called the house of Nestor, in which there is a painting of him.
There is a cave inside the town, in which it is said that the cattle belonging to Nestor and to Neleus before him were kept.
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