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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a roadstead, which was available only in thesummer months. Thuria, on the river Aris, became one of the chieftowns of the Lacedaemonian Periceci after the subjugation of Alessenia :it was identified with the Homeric Anthea. The old town occupie d thesummit of a hill, now named PoJeol-astro : the later one was in thesubjacent plain at Pcdea Lutra: remains of both exist. Messene. thelater capital of Messenia. built by Epaminondas in B.C. 369, was situ-ated upon a rugged mountain which rises betAveen the two Messenianplains, and wLich culminates in the heights of Ithume and Eva. on theformer of which the acropolis was posted, while the town lay in ahollow just W. of the ridge connecting the two summits. Ithome is■J33I feet high, with precipitous sides, and was connected by wallswith the town. The circumference of the walls is about six miles, andthe foundations still exist, together with the northern gate, called theGate of Megalopolis, which has the appearance of a ch^cular fortress.
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Map of the Bay of Pylus. ^ It was one of the 7 towns offered by Agamemnon to Achilles :—^pa.<; re <^a9ea?, rj5 AvOeiav Sa0vAet,uov. I^-- ix. 151, 452 MESSENIA. Book IV. The chief buildings in ^lessene were the Agora^ near the village of Messene was in vain attacked by Demetrius of Pharus, and by Xabis,the tyi-ant of Lacedeemon: it was, however, taken by Lycortas, theAchsean, in 182. Of the less important places we may notice— Cyparissia, on the W.coast, possessing the best roadstead X. of Pylus, and well situated onan elevation; Abia, the Homeric Ira, on the sea-coast near the borderof Laconia; Limnae, more to the X., possessing a temple of Artemis,which was used jointly by the Messenians and Lacedaemonians, the-ruins of which are at Bolimnos : CEchalia, in the plain of Stenyclarus,identified sometimes with Andania, the capital of the Leleges, and thebirth-place of Aristomenes—and sometimes with Camasium, which stooda little to the X.E. of Andania, and possessed, in Pausan

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