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LYRKIA (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Above Oenoe is Mount
Artemisius, with a sanctuary of Artemis on the top. On this mountain are also
the springs of the river Inachus.
For it really has springs, though the water does not run far. Here I found nothing
else that is worth seeing. There is another road, that leads to Lyrcea from the
gate at the Ridge. The story is that to this place came Lynceus, being the only
one of the fifty brothers to escape death, and that on his escape he raised a
beacon here. Now to raise the beacon was the signal he had agreed with Hypermnestra
to give if he should escape Danaus and reach a place of safety. She also, they
say, lighted a beacon on Larisa
as a sign that she too was now out of danger. For this reason the Argives hold
every year a beacon festival. At the first the place was called Lyncea; its present
name is derived from Lyrcus, a bastard son of Abas, who afterwards dwelt there.
Among the ruins are several things not worth mentioning, besides a figure of Lyrcus
upon a slab. The distance from Argos
to Lyrcea is about sixty stades, and the distance from Lyrcea to Orneae
is the same. Homer in the Catalogue makes no mention of the city Lyrcea, because
at the time of the Greek expedition against Troy
it already lay deserted
PORTITSES (Passage) LYRKIA
Pass from Argolis to Arcadia.
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