Listed 100 (total found 173) sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "PELOPONNISOS Region GREECE" .
AGIOS FLOROS (Village) ARFARA
(Paus. 4,31,4). The spring of Pamisos is in Agios Floros (Ekdot. Ath., Pausanias' Periegisis, vol. 3, p.109, note 2).
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
At Pheneus contains writings on mysteries, oath by P.
KANDILA (Village) LEVIDI
The rain-water, flowing through a deep gully between the city and Mount Trachy, descends to another Orchomenian plain, which is very considerable in extent, but the greater part of it is a lake.
MANTHYREA (Ancient city) TEGEA
In Arcadia.
PELLANA (Mycenean settlement) PELANA
Remarkable sights I remember seeing here were a sanctuary of Asclepius and the spring Pellanis. Into it they say a maiden fell when she was drawing water, and when she had disappeared the veil on her head reappeared in another spring, Lancia.
SIKYON (Ancient city) CORINTHIA
...and that Asopia was renamed after Sicyon, and Ephyraea after Corinthus.
SKOPI (Village) TRIPOLI
Place near Mantinea.
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
Place at Sparta.
Place in Sparta.
And there is a place called Platanistas (Plane-tree Grove) from the unbroken ring of tall plane trees growing round it. The place itself, where it is customary for the youths to fight, is surrounded by a moat just like an island in the sea; you enter it by bridges.
Fountain at Sparta.
Street in Sparta, origin of name.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, only the district got its name from him, and that the inhabitants dwelt in parishes, Gareatae, Phylacenses, Caryatae, Corythenses, Potachidae, Oeatae, Manthyrenses, Echeuethenses. But in the reign of Apheidas a ninth parish was added to them, namely Apheidantes.
The lofty place, on which are most of the altars of the Tegeans, is called the place of Zeus Clarius (Of Lots), and it is plain that the god got his surname from the lots cast for the sons of Arcas. Here the Tegeans celebrate a feast every year. It is said that once at the time of the feast they were invaded by the Lacedaemonians. As it was snowing, these were chilled, and thus distressed by their armour, but the Tegeans, without their enemies knowing it, lighted a fire. So untroubled by the cold they donned, they say, their armour, went out against the Lacedaemonians, and had the better of the engagement.
VRYSSES (Ancient city) SPARTI
Peak of Mountain Taygetus, sacred to Sun, SW of Brysae
ACHILLION (Ancient port) ANATOLIKI MANI
The promontory of Taenarum projects into the sea 150 stades from Teuthrone, with the harbors Achilleius.(Perseus Encyclopedia)
AKAKISSION (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
After crossing the river it is two stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to the hill called Acacesian Hill. At the foot of this hill used to be a city Acacesium.
AKRA (Settlement) TEGEA
Hill near Tegea.
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
Spring at Corinth, daughter of Achelous or of Oebalus, identified by some with spring on Acro-Corinth, bronze dipped in it.
ANAVALOS (Spring) LERNA
Spring of fresh water in sea.
To the S. of Kyveri begins the rugged road across the mountains, anciently called Anigraea (Anigraia), running along the west into the plain of Thyrea. (Paus. ii. 38. § 4, seq.) Shortly before descending into the Thyreatic plain, the traveller arrives opposite the Anavolos (Anabolos), which is a copious source of fresh water rising in the sea, at a quarter of a mile from the narrow beach under the cliffs. Leake observed that it rose with such force as to form a convex surface, and to disturb the sea for several hundred feet round. It is evidently the exit of a subterraneous river of some magnitude, and thus corresponds with the Dine (Dine) of the ancients, which, according to Pausanias (viii. 7. § 2), is the outlet of the waters of the Argon Pedion in the Mantinice. (Leake, vol. ii. p. 469, seq.; Ross, p. 148, seq.)
This extract 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
ARACHAMITES (Village) VALTETSI
Stream in Arcadia.
ARGOLIS (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
(Lukone), a mountain of Argolis, on the road from Argos to Tegea. (Paus. ii. 24.
§ 6.)
ARKADIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
Mountain of Arcadia.
ASSOPOS (Municipality) LACONIA
Situated on the foothill of the rocky cape Xili. The year of its establishment is still unknown, as well as the origin of its colonists. We can calculate the time of year of its establishment, on the Copper Age or the Neolithic Age, before the city of Kyparissia, because in the area there have been found objects which are identified as being from the Ages which we mentioned before.
ASTROS (Port) ARCADIA
Astrum (Astron: Astro). A town in Cynuria on the coast, and the first town in Argolis towards the frontiers of Laconia. It is mentioned by Ptolemy alone (iii. 16. § 11), but is conjectured by Leake to have been the maritime fortress in the building of which the Aeginetae were interrupted by the Athenians in the eighth year of the Peloponnesian war. (Thuc. iv. 57.) The place was situated on a promontory, which retains its ancient name. Here there are still considerable remains of an ancient wall. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 484, seq.; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 162.)
DOLIANA (Small town) ASTROS
River of Arcadia.
EFYRA (Homeric city) CORINTHIA
there is another River Selleeis near Sicyon, and near the river a village Ephyra
EGIES (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Here is a lake called Poseidon's, and by the lake is a temple with an image of the god. They are afraid to take out the fish, saying that a fisherman in these waters turns into the fish called the fisher.
ERMIONI (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
A mountain near the city of Hermione in Argolis, between which and Mt Pron the
road ran from Hermione to Halice. It was subsequently called Coccygium, because
Zeus was said to have been here transformed into a cuckoo; and on its summit was
a temple of Zeus Coccygius. (Paus. ii. 36. § 1, 2; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 288;
Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 463.)
FALANTHOS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
One of the men who introduced mysteries of Great Goddesses into Megalopolis, plain of.
Mountain of Arcadia.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Not far from Pharae is a grove of Apollo Carneius and a spring of water in it.
FENEOS (Ancient city) FENEOS
Place at boundary between Pellene and Pheneus.
FLIASIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
It was famous for its wines (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 2, p. 114, note 6).
FLIOUS (Ancient city) NEMEA
It was on that hill that Aras had built Arantia, which later took the name Phlious. Pausanias saw the graves of Aras' children on that same hill.
Not far away is what is called the Omphalos (Navel), the center of all the Peloponnesus, if they speak the truth about it.
IREON (Ancient sanctuary) ARGOS - MYKINES
River of Argolis.
Acrae (Arkaia), a mountain in Argolis, opposite the Heraeum, or great temple of Hera. (Paus. ii. 17. § 2; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 393, Peloponnesiaca, p. 263.)
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Oligyrtus (Oligurtos, Polyb. iv. 11, 70; Onogurtos, Plut. Cleom. 26),
a mountain and fortress situated in a pass between Stymphalus and Caphyae. Leake
places it on a small advanced height of Mt. Skipezi, projecting into the Stymphalian
plain, on the crest of which are the foundations of a Hellenic wall, formed of
large quadrangular stones. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 114; Boblaye, Recherches,
&c. p. 154; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. i.p. 217.)
KAPSAS (Village) MANTINIA
Plain near Mantinea.
KARNASSION (Ancient city) MELIGALAS
Facing the plain is a site anciently called Oechalia, in our time the Carnasian grove (Paus. 4,33,4). Today we locate the Carnasian grove in the area of Kalliroi and Ichalia.
KERASSITSA (Village) TEGEA
Mountain in Arcadia.
There is on the way to Tegea a fountain called Leuconian.
KORINTHIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
Perseus Project
KORINTHOS (Ancient city) PELOPONNISOS
A grove of cypresses near Corinth.
Not far from this theater is the ancient gymnasium, and a spring called Lerna. Pillars stand around it, and seats have been made to refresh in summer time those who have entered it.
Peirene. The spring struck out by the winged steed Pegasus on the citadel of Corinth. It is also said to have sprung from Pirene, daughter of Oebalus, who melted into tears in sorrow for the loss of her son Cenchrias, accidentally slain by Artemis. It flowed from a rock in the Acrocorinthus, and was conveyed by subterranean conduits down the hill to a marble reservoir, from which the city received a great part of its watersupply.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
Cited Sept 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
Pirene (2): Perseus Encyclopedia
Pirene: Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
River of Messenia (Paus. 4,34,4).
KROMI (Ancient city) FALESSIA
Place in Arcadia.
KYLLINI (Mountain) CORINTHIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
Cyparisseeis is in the neighborhood of the Macistia of earlier times (when Macistia still extended across the Neda), but it is no longer inhabited, as is also the case with Macistum. But there is another, the Messenian Cyparissia; it, too, is now called by the same name as the Macistian and in like manner, namely, Cyparissia, in the singular number and in the feminine gender, whereas only the river is now called Cyparisseeis.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
KYVERI (Small town) LERNA
Apobathmi, (Apobathoi), a small place in Argolis, near the frontiers of Cynuria, was said to have been so called from Danaus landing at this spot. (Paus. ii. 38. § 4.) The surrounding country was also called Pyramia (Puramia), from the monuments in the form of pyramids found here. (Plut. Pyrrh. 32; Ross, Reisen im Peloponnes, p. 152.)
District of Argolis
The road (from Argolis) to Thyrea and Sparta is the same as the one to Tegea, till it reaches... Lerna. (Paus. ii. 36. § 6, seq.) After leaving Lerna, the road passes by Genesium, and the place called Apobathmi, where Danaus is said to have landed, in the neighbourhood of the modern village of Kyveri. To the S. of Kyveri begins the rugged road across the mountains, anciently called Anigraea (Anigraia), running along the west into the plain of Thyrea. (Paus. ii. 38. § 4, seq.) Shortly before descending into the Thyreatic plain, the traveller arrives opposite the Anavolos (Anabolos), which is a copious source of fresh water rising in the sea...
This extract 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
Genesium (Genesion), a place in the Argeia upon the Argolic gulf, S. of Lerna, and N. of the mountain pass, called Anigraea, leading into the Thyreatis. (Paus. ii. 38. § 4.) Pausanias, in another passage (viii. 7. § 2), calls the place Genethlium (Genethlion), and says less correctly that near it was the spring of fresh water rising in the sea, called Dine; whereas this spring of fresh water is to the S. of the Anigraea. Near this place Danaus is said to have landed. No remains of Genesium have been found, but it must have stood near the village of Kyveri. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. pp. 477, 480; Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p. 48; Ross, Reisen im Peloponnes, p. 152; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii p. 371.)
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
LAS (Ancient city) GYTHIO
Arainus (Arainos), a small place in Laconia, on the western side of the Laconian
gulf, containing the monument of Las, who founded a town called Las after him.
Boblaye places Arainus at Agheranos (Paus. iii. 24. § 10; Boblaye Recherches,
&c. p. 88; comp. Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 173.)
LEVIDI (Small town) MANTINIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
The flat area to the east of Levidi, where in 370 BC a battle between Mantineans and Orchomenians took place. Xenophon refers to this battle (Hell. 6,5,13) (Ekd. Athinon, Pausanias’ Periegissis, vol. 4, p. 222, note 1).
Place in Arcadia.
LIBOVISSI (Village) ARCADIA
Anemosa (Anemasa), a village of Arcadia in the district Maenalia on the Helisson near Zibovisi. (Pans. viii. 35. § 9; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 238.)
LYKEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Lycaeus (Lukaios). A lofty mountain in Arcadia, northwest of Megalopolis, one of the chief seats of the worship of Zeus and of Pan, each of whom was therefore called Lycaens.
MAINALON (Ski centre) ARCADIA
A spring.
MANTINIA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
River at Mantinea.
Oak-wood near Mantinea, referred to in ambiguous oracle.
After crossing into Mantinean country over Mount Artemisius you will come to a plain called the Untilled Plain, whose name well describes it, for the rain-water coming down into it from the mountains prevents the plain from being tilled.
Mount.
MATI (Village) FENEOS
Mountains of Arcadia.
After the boundaries of the cities I have mentioned lies a ravine, and the road to Pheneus leads through it. Just about the middle of the ravine water rises up from a spring, and at the end of the ravine is a place called Caryae.
Place near Pheneus.
MEGALOPOLIS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Hill at Megalopolis.
Spring at Megalopolis.
Place near Megalopolis.
MENALIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
Plain in Arcadia, cities of.
Ladoceia (ta Ladokeia), a place in Arcadia, in the district Maenalia, and, after the building of Megalopolis, a suburb of that city, was situated upon the road from the latter to Pallantium and Tegea. Here a battle was fought between the Mantineians and Tegeatae, B.C. 423, and between the Achaeans and Cleomenes, B.C. 226. Thucydides calls it Laodicium (Laodikion) in Oresthis. (Paus. viii. 44. § 1; Thuc. iv. 134; Pol. ii. 51, 55.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MENALON (Mountain) LEVIDI
Mountain of Arcadia.
Meetings of, place in Arcadia.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
Water-basin in Messene.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Acritas (Akritas: C. Gallo), the most southerly promontory in Messenia. (Strab. p. 359; Paus. iv. 34. § 12 ; Ptol. iii. 16. § 7; Plin. iv. 5. s. 7; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 443.)
METHYDRION (Ancient city) VYTINA
River of Arcadia.
MONEMVASSIA (Village) LACONIA
There was a cape (akra, Paus. 3.23.11) with a fort (Strab. 368) called Minoa; this may have been the promontory of Monemvasia, which, however, is now an island.
MYSSEON (Ancient city) TRIKALA KORINTHIAS
River of Achaia.
River near Sicyon.
NEDON (River) MESSINIA
Tributary of Neda.
NEMEA (Ancient sanctuary) CORINTHIA
Above Nemea is Mount Apesas, where they say that Perseus first sacrificed to Zeus of Apesas. (Paus. 2.15.3)
Apesas. The mountain was also called Aphesas because the horse races in the
Nemean Games began at its base. The Nemean lion was said to have roamed its slopes
and the high summit was known also in legend as the place where Perseus first
sacrificed to Zeus Apesantios. (The chief ancient sources are Hes. Theog. 327-31;
Plin. HN 4.17; author of de fluv. 18.5; Paus. 2.15.3; Stat. Theb. 3.461; Etym.
Mag. and Steph. Byz.) The remains of the great ash altar of Zeus are located near
the E edge of the summit and pottery sherds in the vicinity date from the Geometric
period to the 4th c. B.C. The mountain rises above the Nemea river and separated
the Corinthia from the territory of Kleonai.
Apesas (Fuka), a mountain in Peloponnesus above Nemea in the territory of Cleonae, where Perseus is said to have been the first person, who sacrificed to Zeus Apesantius. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 325; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 40.)
NEOCHORI (Village) FALESSIA
Place in Arcadia.
NESTANI (Acropolis) MANTINIA
For it is said that by this Nestane Philip made an encampment, and the spring here they still call Philippium after the king.
By Nestane there lies, on lower ground, about . . . itself too forming part of the Untilled Plain, and it is called the Dancing Floor of Maera.
NYMFASSIA (Village) VYTINA
Spring in Arcadia .
ORCHOMENOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Opposite the city is Mount Trachy (Rough).
On the road to Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of Orchomenus, Pheneus and Caphya. Over the boundaries extends a high crag, called the Caphyatic Rock.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!
