Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "PLYTRA Port ASSOPOS" .
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Asopus, 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, and the bones in the gymnasium, which they worship, are human, although of superhuman size. On the citadel is also a sanctuary of Athena, surnamed Cyparissia (Cypress Goddess ). At the foot of the citadel are the ruins of a city called the City of the Paracyparissian Achaeans. There is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
City of Free Laconians.
YPERTELEATON (Ancient sanctuary) ASSOPOS
Place in Laconia.
KYPARISSIA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
And one comes also to a plain called Leuce; then to a city Cyparissia, which is situated on a peninsula and has a harbor; then to Onugnathus, which has a harbor.
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