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DORION (Prehistoric settlement) TRIFYLIA
And I showed that each of these tribes has an equal vote, the greatest equal to the least: that the delegate from Dorion and Cytinion has equal authority with the Lacedaemonian delegates, for each tribe casts two votes; again, that of the Ionian delegates those from Eretria and Priene have equal authority with those from Athens and the rest in the same way.
AVLON (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
As for Dorium, some call it a mountain, while others call it a plain, but nothing is now to be seen; and yet by some the Aluris of today, or Alura, situated in what is called the Aulon of Messenia, is called Dorium.
DORION (Prehistoric settlement) TRIFYLIA
As for Dorium, some call it a mountain, while others call it a plain, but nothing is now to be seen; and yet by some the Aluris of today, or Alura, situated in what is called the Aulon of Messenia, is called Dorium.
EPIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Aepeia was the old name of Corone.
And Aepeia is now called Thuria.
Pausanias identifies Aepea with Corone and Pedasus, and claims that before the Trojan War it was called Mothone.
ICHALIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
For if it was the Thessalian Oechalia, Demetrius of Scepsis is wrong again when he says that it was a certain Arcadian Oechalia, which is now called Andania; but if Demetrius is right, Arcadian Oechalia was also called "city of Eurytus," and therefore there was not merely one Oechalia; but Apollodorus says that there was one only.
City in Messenia, afterwards called Oechalia (Paus. 4,2,2)
To him, the Messenians say, came Melaneus, a good archer and considered for this reason to be a son of Apollo; Perieres assigned to him as a dwelling a part of the country now called the Carnasium, but which then received the name Oechalia, derived, as they say, from the wife of Melaneus.
Demetrius of Scepsis is wrong again when he says that it was a certain Arcadian Oechalia, which is now called Andania; but if Demetrius is right, Arcadian Oechalia was also called "city of Eurytus," and therefore there was not merely one Oechalia
Concerning the country that was subject to Nestor, Homer speaks as follows: "And those who dwelt in Pylus and lovely Arene and Thryum, fording-place of the Alpheius, and well-built Aepy, and also those who were inhabitants of Cyparisseeis and Amphigeneia and Pteleus and Helus and Dorium, at which place the Muses met Thamyris the Thracian, and put a stop to his singing while he was on his way from Oechalia from Eurytus the Oechalian."
As for Dorium, some call it a mountain, while others call it a plain, but nothing is now to be seen; and yet by some the Aluris of today, or Alura, situated in what is called the Aulon of Messenia, is called Dorium. And somewhere in this region is also the Oechalia of Eurytus (the Andania of today, a small Arcadian town, with the same name as the towns in Thessaly and Euboea), whence, according to the poet, Thamyris the Thracian came to Dorium and was deprived of the art of singing.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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KARNASSION (Ancient city) MELIGALAS
City in Messenia, afterwards called Oechalia (Paus. 4,2,2)
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
Pausanias identifies Aepea with Corone and Pedasus, and claims that before the Trojan War it was called Mothone (Paus. 4,35,1).
Strabo also claims that it is the town Methone of his days (Strab. 8,4,3).
Eustathius mentions that Pedasus is the Corone of his time.
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Messenia, formerly called Pedasus.
Pausanias identifies Aepea with Corone and Pedasus, and claims that before the Trojan War it was called Mothone.
Pausanias identifies Aepea with Corone and Pedasus, and claims that before the Trojan War it was called Mothone.
Before the mustering of the army for the Trojan war, and during the war, Mothone was called Pedasus (Paus. 4,35,1). Next comes Methone. This, they say, is what the poet calls Pedasus (Strabo 8,4,3).
ARINI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
As to the ruins of Arene, no Messenian and no Elean could point them out to me with certainty (Paus. 5.6.2).
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
For they say that the sons of Asclepius who went to Troy were Messenians, Asclepius being the son of Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus, not the son of Coronis, and they call a desolate spot in Messenia by the name Tricca and quote the lines of Homer, in which Nestor tends Machaon kindly, when he has been wounded by the arrow. He would not have shown such readiness except to a neighbor and king of a kindred people. 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.
This extract is from: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Harvard University Press
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ITHOMI (Mountain) MESSINIA
On the ascent to the summit of Ithome, which is the Messenian acropolis, is a spring Clepsydra.
Water is carried every day from the spring to the sanctuary of Zeus of Ithome.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
Corone is a city to the right of the Pamisus, on the sea-coast under Mount Mathia.
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. A short distance further the river Bias
reaches the sea. The name is said to be derived from Bias the son of Amythaon.
Twenty stades off the road is the fountain of Plataniston, the water of which
flows out of a broad plane tree, which is hollow inside. The breadth of the tree
gives the impression of a small cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone.
The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese
by the Thebans, it is said that Epimelides, who was sent as founder, named it
Coroneia after his native town in Boeotia. The Messenians got the name wrong from
the start, and the mistake which they made gradually prevailed in course of time.
Another story is told to the effect that, when digging the foundations of the
city wall, they came upon a bronze crow, in Greek corone. The gods who have temples
here are Artemis, called the ?Nurse of Children,? Dionysus and Asclepius. 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. The statue of Athena also on the
acropolis is of bronze, and stands in the open air, holding a crow in her hand.
I also saw the tomb of Epimelides. I do not know why they call the harbor ?the
harbor of the Achaeans.?
Some eighty stades beyond Corone is a sanctuary of Apollo on the coast, venerated
because it is very ancient according to Messenian tradition, and the god cures
illnesses. They call him Apollo Corynthus. His image is of wood, but the statue
of Apollo Argeotas, said to have been dedicated by the Argonauts, is of bronze.
The city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides.
ALAGONIA (Ancient city) AVIA
City of Free Laconians.
AMFIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
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ANDANIA (Ancient city) ANDANIA
Birthplace of Aristomenes, named after a woman.
ASSINI (Ancient city) KORONI
In Messenia.
AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
City of Messenia. Ire; afterwards called Abia.
Town of Messenia, afterwards called Abia.
AVLON (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Place in Messenia.
DORION (Prehistoric settlement) TRIFYLIA
Ruined city in Messenia.
EIRA (Ancient fortress) MESSINIA
Mountain in Messenia, Messenians settle on it, captured by Lacedaemonians.
EPANO KARDAMYLI (Medieval settlement) KALAMATA
A town in Laconia, severed from Messenia and annexed to Sparta by Augustus.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
City of Messenia.
FINIKOUS (Ancient city) METHONI
Port in Messenia.
GERINIA (Ancient city) AVIA
City of Free Laconians, borders on Messenia, called Enope by Homer, tomb and worship of Machaon at G.
ICHALIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
ITHOMI (Acropolis) MESSINIA
A hill and town in Messenia (but the reading is doubtful), mountain of Messenia, Messenians settled on, abandoned by Messenains, captured by Lacedaemonians, talisman buried on, rebel Helots retite to, being besieged on I. they capitulate, city of Messene at floor of, precint of Zeus on.
ITHOMI (Mountain) MESSINIA
A hill and town in Messenia (but the reading is doubtful), mountain of Messenia, Messenians settled on, abandoned by Messenains, captured by Lacedaemonians, talisman buried on, rebel Helots retite to, being besieged on I. they capitulate, city of Messene at floor of, precint of Zeus on.
KALAMES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Village of Messenia.
KOLONIDES (Ancient city) EPIA
City of Messenia.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
Town of Messenia (Paus. 4,34,4).
Old name of Corone in Messenia (Paus. 4.34.5).
Old name of Corone (Paus. 4,34,5).
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
City of Messenia.
LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Free Laconians.
Name given to Cassandra by people of Leuctra in Laconia, her sanctuary at Amyclae.
LIMNES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
Place on frontiers of Laconia and Messenia.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
City at foot of Ithome, founded by Epaminondas, seized by Demetrius, son of Philip, seized by Nabis, its strong walls.
MESSINIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Boundaries of, given in trust to Nestor by Herakles, descendants of Nestor expelled from Messenia by Heraclids, safety of Messenia depends on a secret object, residence of kings of, its alliance with Samos, wars with Sparta.
METHONI (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Messenia, formerly called Pedasus, given to Nauplians by Lacedaemonians, made free by Trajan.
NEDON (River) MESSINIA
River, boundary between Messenia and Elis.
PAMISSOS (River) MESSINIA
River of Messenia, its fish, kings of Messenia sacrifice to it annually.
PEFNOS (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
Place and island of Laconia.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Messenia, called sandy by Homer, founded by Neleus, given to Neleus by Aphareus, captured and ravaged by Herakles, Amythaon in, Hermes brings the stolen kine to, kine of Phylacus brought to, palace of Nestor and his sons at, people of Pylos emigrate from Messenia.
Cape in Messenia.
SFAKTIRIA (Small island) PYLOS
Island, Lacedaemonians defeated and captured by Athenians at, Messenians fight for Athenians at.
STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
City of Messenia, palace of Messenian kings at, scene of a battle between Spartans and Messenians.
Descendants of Aepytus.
THALAMES (Ancient city) LEFKTRA
City of Free Laconians, formerly belonged to Messenia.
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
District of Elis.
YAMITIS (Ancient city) MESSINI
District in Messenia, given by Lacedaemonians to descendants of Androcles.
AMFIGENIA (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
Amphigeneia is in Macistia, in the neighborhood of the Hypsoeis River, where is the temple of Leto
ANDANIA (Ancient city) ANDANIA
...In this statement, therefore, Apollodorus was in want of perception; as also in his statement concerning Oechalia, because, although Oechalia is the name of not merely one city, he says that there is only one city of Eurytus the Oechalian, namely, the Thessalian Oechalia, in reference to which Homer says:"Those that held Oechalia, city of Eurytus the Oechalian." What Oechalia, pray, was it from which Thamyris had set out when, near Dorium, the Muses "met Thamyris the Thracian and put a stop to his singing"? For Homer adds: "as he was on his way from Oechalia, from Eurytus the Oechalian." For if it was the Thessalian Oechalia, Demetrius of Scepsis is wrong again when he says that it was a certain Arcadian Oechalia, which is now called Andania; but if Demetrius is right, Arcadian Oechalia was also called "city of Eurytus," and therefore there was not merely one Oechalia; but Apollodorus says that there was one only.
ASSINI (Ancient city) KORONI
The Argives laid waste to most of the cities because of their disobedience; those from Asine (this is a village in Argeia near Nauplia) were transferred by the Lacedaemonians to Messenia, where is a town that bears the same name as the Argolic Asine; for the Lacedaemonians, says Theopompos, took possession of much territory that belonged to other peoples and settled there all who fled to them and were taken in. And the inhabitants of Nauplia also withdrew to Messenia.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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AVIA (Ancient city) KALAMATA
As for Hire, it is pointed out near the mountain that is near Megalopolis in Arcadia, on the road that leads to Andania.
DORION (Prehistoric settlement) TRIFYLIA
As for Dorium, some call it a mountain, while others call it a plain, but nothing is now to be seen; and yet by some the Aluris of today, or Alura, situated in what is called the Aulon of Messenia, is called Dorium. And somewhere in this region is also the Oechalia of Eurytus (the Andania of today, a small Arcadian town, with the same name as the towns in Thessaly and Euboea), whence, according to the poet, Thamyris the Thracian came to Dorium and was deprived of the art of singing.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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EIRA (Ancient fortress) MESSINIA
As for Hire, it is pointed out near the mountain that is near Megalopolis in Arcadia, on the road that leads to Andania. But others say that what is now Mesola, which extends to the gulf between Taygetus and Messenia, is called Hire.
ERANI (Ancient city) FILIATRA
After sailing past Cyparisseeis towards the Messenian Pylus and Coryphasium one comes to Erana, which some wrongly think was in earlier times called Arene by the same name as the Pylian Arene, and also to Cape Platamodes, from which the distance to Coryphasium and to what is now called Pylus is one hundred stadia.
FARES (Ancient city) KALAMATA
For, that Pherae is the home of Ortilochus, is clear from this passage: and they Telemachus and Peisistratus went to Pherae, the home of Diocles, son of Ortilochus; Hom. Od. 3.488and Pherae is in Messenia
ICHALIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
And somewhere in this region (of Dorium) is also the Oechalia of Eurytus (the Andania of today, a small Arcadian town, with the same name as the towns in Thessaly and Euboea), whence, according to the poet, Thamyris the Thracian came to Dorium and was deprived of the art of singing.
KORONI (Ancient city) PETALIDI
... And Aepeia is now called Thuria, which, as I have said, borders
on Pharae; it is situated on a lofty hill, and hence the name. From Thuria is
derived the name of the Thuriates Gulf, on which there was but one city, Rhium
by name, opposite Taenarum. And as for Antheia, some say that it is Thuria itself,
and that Aepeia is Methone; but others say that of all the Messenian cities the
epithet "deep-meadowed" (Hom.Il. 9.151) was most appropriately applied to the
intervening Asine, in whose territory on the sea is a city called Corone; moreover,
according to some writers, it was Corone that the poet called Pedasus.
"And all are close to the salt sea," (Hom.Il. 9.153)
Cardamyle on it, Pharae only five stadia distant (with an anchoring
place in summer), while the others are at varying distances from the sea. It is
near Corone, at about the center of the gulf, that the river Pamisus empties.
The river has on its right Corone and the cities that come in order after it (of
these latter the farthermost towards the west are Pylus and Cyparissia, and between
these is Erana, which some have wrongly thought to be the Arene of earlier time),
and it has Thuria and Pharae on its left. It is the largest of the rivers inside
the Isthmus, although it is no more than a hundred stadia in length from its sources,
from which it flows with an abundance of water through the Messenian plain, that
is, through Macaria, as it is called. The river stands at a distance of fifty
( comm.: The MSS. read "two hundred and fifty.") stadia from the present
city of the Messenians. There is also another Pamisus, a small torrential stream,
which flows near the Laconian Leuctrum; and it was over Leuctrum that the Messenians
got into a dispute with the Lacedaemonians in the time of Philip. Of the Pamisus
which some called the Amathus I have already spoken.
Commentary: "Aepeia" being the feminine form of the Greek adjective
"aepys," meaning "sheer," "lofty."
KYPARISSIIS (Ancient city) KYPARISSIA
The Lepreatans held a fertile territory; and that of the Cyparissians bordered on it. Both these districts were taken and held by the Cauconians.
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
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LEFKTRA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
There is also another Pamisus, a small torrential stream, which flows near the Laconian Leuctrum; and it was over Leuctrum that the Messenians got into a dispute with the Lacedaemonians in the time of Philip.
MESSINI (Ancient city) ITHOMI
Messene comes after Triphylia; and there is a cape which is common to both; and after this cape come Cyparissia and Coryphasium. Above Coryphasium and the sea, at a distance of seven stadia, lies a mountain, Aegaleum.
MESSOLA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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PTELEOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Pteleum was a settlement of the colony from the Thessalian Pteleum, for, as Homer tells us, there was a Pteleum in Thessaly too: "and Antrum, near the sea, and grassy Pteleum;" but now it is a woody, uninhabited place, and is called Pteleasium.
PYLOS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
The poet (Homer) prolongs the Pylian Sea as far as the seven cities which Agamemnon promised to Achilles: "and all are situated near the sea of sandy Pylus;" for this phrase is equivalent to "near the Pylian Sea."
RION (Ancient city) MESSINIA
From Thuria is derived the name of the Thuriates Gulf, on which there was but one city, Rhium by name, opposite Taenarum. When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis, he sent kings to them.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
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STENYKLAROS (Ancient city) MESSINIA
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians; but since this irritated the Dorians, he changed his mind, gave sanction to Stenyclarus alone as a city, and also gathered into it all the Dorians.
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
For while Triphylia brings forth good fruit, it breeds red-rust and produces rush; and therefore in this region it is often the case that instead of a large crop there is no crop at all.
YAMITIS (Ancient city) MESSINI
According to Ephorus: When Cresphontes took Messenia, he divided it into five cities; and so, since Stenyclarus was situated in the center of this country, he designated it as a royal residence for himself, while as for the others--Pylus, Rhium, Mesola, and Hyameitis--he sent kings to them, after conferring on all the Messenians equal rights with the Dorians.
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.
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