Listed 14 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "LEFKTRA Municipality MESSINIA" .
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
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena.
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.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
In the town is a sanctuary of Athena, and an Apollo Carneius according to the local Dorian custom.
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
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Also a temple and statue have been erected to Cassandra the daughter of Priam, called Alexandra by the natives.
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.
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