Asine

Asine (Greece)

Asine (

Messenian territory, where they built a new town (also named Asine). Nearly ten centuries after the destruction of the city its ruins were visited by Pausanias, who found the temple of Apollo still standing.^[2]^[3]

Its site is located near the modern Tolon.^[4]^[5]

Excavations made from 1922 by

Hellenistic era) and a Mycenaean era necropolis with many Mycenaean chamber tombs containing skeletal remains and grave goods. Excavations have continued since the 1920s almost continuously under the Swedish Institute at Athens.^[6]

The site was last used as a fortified position by Italian troops during the second world war when machine gun nests were built.

Sources

Swedish Institute at Athens - Asine, Argolid: https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=338&page=1

References

^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.560.
^ Pausanias (1918). "36.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 2. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 3.7.4, 4.14.3, 4.34.9, et seq.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.373. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
.

^ Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "ASINE Argolid, Greece"

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Asine". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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[1] Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.560.

[2] Pausanias (1918). "36.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 2. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 3.7.4, 4.14.3, 4.34.9, et seq.

[3] Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.373. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[4] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[5] ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
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[6] Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "ASINE Argolid, Greece"

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