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Boiae
(79 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Achaeans, Achaea (Βοιαί;
Boiaí). One of the most prosperous cities of the Eleutherolakones on the western coast of the Parnon peninsula in the bay of Vatica. Unremarkable archaeological ruins (especia…
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Esuvii
(49 words)
[German version] (Esubii). Tribe in Gallia Celtica, later Lugdunensis, between the lower Seine and the Loire. Caesar (Gall. 2,34; 3,7; 5,24; 5,53) mentions it as one of the tribes of Aremorica (Bretagne) between the Coriosolites and the Aulerci in the area of Sées (Orne). Lafond, Yves (Bochum)
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Cyparissia
(301 words)
(Κυπαρισσία;
Kyparissía). [German version] [1] Town on the Messenian west coast This item can be found on the following maps: Sparta | Achaeans, Achaea Town on the Messenian west coast and the location of the modern town of the same name with a few remains mostly from Roman times; parts of the wall of the acropolis below a medieval castle. Aside from Pylos and Methone, the harbour of C. with its good connection to the upper Pamisus Valley was considered the only significant Messenian access to the sea. C. is already mentioned in the Pylos Tablets and is in any case identical to Κυπαρισσήεις (
Kypar…
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Cabillon(n)um
(71 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Town by the Arar in Gallia Lugdunensis, today Chalon-sur-Saône. As a river port of the Haedui, C. was of economic importance until the conquest by the Romans. Literary sources: Caes. B Gall. 7,42; 7,90; Str. 4,3,2; Ptol. 2,8,12. In later times, station of the
classis Ararica. …
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Gytheumium
(346 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Sparta | Theatre | Caesar | Achaeans, Achaea | Macedonia, Macedones (Γύθ(ε)ιον;
Gýth(e)ion). Laconian perioikoi town on the north-western coast of the innermost Laconian gulf in a relatively protected …
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Alesia
(145 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Theatre | Caesar | Caesar | Gallia/Gaul | Celts | Oppidum
Oppidum of the Mandubii in Gallia Celtica, today Alise-Sainte-Reine (Côte…
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Marganeis
(125 words)
[German version] (Μαργανεῖς/
Marganeîs). Small community west of Olympia in the plain north of the Alpheius between the modern villages of Phloka and Strephi, dependent on Elis as
períoikoi . Exact location unknow…
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Bura
(114 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Achaeans, Achaea | Natural catastrophes | Oracles (Βοῦρα;
Boûra). One of the 12 cities of Achaea. Hill settlement (Hdt. 1,145; Pol. 2,41), 40 stades from the sea (Str. 8,7,5). Destroyed by an earthquake in 373 BC, B. continued to exist, however, and had …
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Oetylus
(147 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Sparta | Achaeans, Achaea (Οἴτυλος/
Oítylos). Town, present-day Otylon (Itylon), on the eastern bank of the Messenian Gulf by the deep harbour bay
hórmos limeníu (ὅρμος λιμενίου) and 7.5 km to the north of Areopoli on the west coast of Mani (Hom. Il. 2,585; Str. 8,4,4: Βοίτυλος/
Boítyl…
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Parrhasia, Parrhasii
(111 words)
[German version] (Παρρασία/
Parrhasía, Παρράσιοι/
Parrhásioi). Settlement area of the largest Arcadian sub-tribe in West-Arcadia (Hom. Il. 2,608; Str. 8,8,1; Diod. Sic. 15,72,4). The pan-Arcadian sanctuary of Zeus was located in P., on the Lycaeum (Pind. O. 9,143). In the 2nd cent. AD (Paus. 8,27,4; 38,3), P. referred only to the western part of the plain of Megalopolis, with the hill country stretching from the west
. Originally, however, the P. stretched further to the south and west (Thuc. 5,33,1; Xen. Hell. 7,1,28). The independence of P. ended with its incorporation in 368/7 BC into the newly founded Megale Polis. Coins from the 5th cent. BC: HN 451. Lafond, Yves (Bochum) Bibliography Jost, 168-189. …
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Arar
(88 words)
[German version] River in Gallia, earlier called Βρίγουλος (
Brígoulos), later
Sauconna ; the modern Saône (Ps.-Plut. De Fluminibus 6). Rising in the Vosges (according to Str. 4,1,11; 3,2 the Alps; Ptol. 2,10,4 -- confusion with Isara); navigable from its confluence with the Dubis, with a remarkably slow current, it formed the border between the Haedui and the Sequani (Caes. B Gall. 1,12,1) and joined the Rhodanus near
ad Confluentes, opposite Lugdunum. …
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Melangea
(39 words)
[German version] (Μελαγγεία/
Melangeía). Town in the territory of Mantinea in Arcadia at the exit of the Climax Pass. Drinking water was led from here to Mantinea. To be found at modern Pikerni (Paus. 8,6,4). Lafond, Yves (Bochum)
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Bibrax
(34 words)
[German version]
Oppidum of the Remi, modern Vieux-Laon or Camp de Saint-Thomas (Départment Aisne). Captured by Caesar in 57 BC (Caes. B Gall. 2,6). Lafond, Yves (Bochum) Bibliography P. Leman, s.v. B., PE, 792.
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Cnacion
(40 words)
[German version] (Κνακιών;
Knakiṓn). Mentioned only in the ‘Great Rhetra’ (Plut. Lycurgus 6,4, Pelopidas 17,6; Sparta). Place name in Sparta, later equated to the river Oenus, today's Kelephina (Plut. loc. cit.; Lycoph. 550); not identifiable. Lafond, Yves (Bochum)
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Asine
(385 words)
(Ἀσίνη;
Asínē) [German version] [1] Prehistoric settlement in Kastraki…
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Cardamyle
(176 words)
[German version] This item can be found on the following maps: Sparta | Achaeans, Achaea (Καρδαμύλη;
Kardamýlē). Spartan perioecic settlement on the western side of the Taygetus peninsula. The ancient acropolis, on a hillside surrounded by precipitous cliff faces (Str. 8,4,4), lies about 2 km inland from the sea, 1 km north of the modern Kardamili. Pottery from the Mycenaean to the Roman periods; rema…
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