Bura (Achaea)
Bura (also Boura, Bira;
It is said to have derived its name from
The city was situated on a height 40 stadia from the sea, and southeast of Helike. Its name occurs in a line of Aeschylus, preserved by Strabo. It was swallowed up by the earthquake which destroyed Helike in 373 BCE, and all its inhabitants perished except those who were absent at the time. On their return they rebuilt the city, which was visited by Pausanias, who mentions its temples dedicated to Demeter, Aphrodite, Eileithyia and Isis. Strabo relates that there was a fountain at Bura called "Sybaris", from which the river and city in Magna Graecia, Italy derived its name. On the revival of the Achaean League in 280 BCE, Bura was governed by a tyrant, whom the inhabitants slew in 275 BCE, and then joined the confederacy. A little to the east of Bura was the river Buraïcus; and on the banks of this river, between Bura and the sea, was an oracular cavern of Heracles surnamed Buraicus.[3]
The ruins of Bura have been discovered nearly midway between the rivers of
See also
References
- ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.25.8
- Diodorusxv. 48; Pausanias, vii. 25. § 8, seq.
- ^ Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 399, Peloponnesiaca, p. 387.
- ^ Ovid Met. xv. 293; Plin. ii. 94.
- ^ Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7, (5.4)
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Bura". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.- Katsonopoulou, Dora; Soter, Steven (June 1993). "The oracular cave of Herakles of Boura". Archaeologia (in Greek) (47): 60–64.
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