Hermione (Argolis)

Coordinates: 37°23′00″N 23°15′13″E / 37.3834°N 23.2535°E / 37.3834; 23.2535
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Hermione is located in Greece
Hermione
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Location of Hermonie in Modern Greece

Hermione (

Latin: Hermionicus Sinus),[4] which was regarded as distinct from the Argolic and Saronic Gulfs. The ruins of the ancient town lie about the modern village of Ermioni
.

According to

Calaureia,[9] from which it has been inferred that Hermione had the presidency of the confederacy, and that the island belonged to this city. It is expressly stated that Hydra belonged to the Hermionians, and that they surrendered this island to the Samian pirates, who gave it into the charge of the Troezenians.[10] The Hermionians are mentioned as Dryopes at the time of the Greco-Persian Wars: they sent three ships to the Battle of Salamis, and 300 men to the Battle of Plataea.[11]

Subsequently the

Acrocorinthus and the liberation of Argos by Aratus of Sicyon, however, convinced Xenon to voluntarily step down in 228 BC. He was the last tyrant of the Peloponnese to surrender his power.[16] Hermione then joined the Achaean League
and continued to exist long afterwards, as is evidenced by its numerous coins and inscriptions.

Pausanias describes Hermione at considerable length. The old city, which was no longer inhabited in his time (2nd century), stood upon a promontory seven stadia in length, and three in breadth at its widest part; and on either side of this promontory there was a convenient harbour. There were still several temples standing on this promontory in the time of Pausanias, of which the most remarkable was one sacred to Poseidon. The later town, which Pausanias visited, stood at the distance of four stadia from this temple upon the slopes of the hill Pron. It was entirely surrounded by walls, and was in earlier times the acropolis of the city. The ruins lie about the modern village of Ermioni.[17][18] Of the numerous temples mentioned by Pausanias the most important was the ancient Dryopian sanctuary of Demeter Chthonia, situated on a height of Mount Pron, said to have been founded by Chthonia, daughter of Phoroneus, and Clymenus her brother.[19] It was an inviolable sanctuary; but it was plundered by Cilician pirates.[20] Opposite this temple was one sacred to Clymenus and to the right was the stoa of Echo, which repeated the voice three times. In the same neighbourhood there were three sacred places surrounded with stone fences; one named the sanctuary of Clymenus, the second that of Hades, and the third that of the Acherusian lake. In the sanctuary of Clymenus there was an opening in the earth which the Hermionians believed to be the shortest road to Hades, and consequently they put no money in the mouths of their dead to pay the ferryman of the lower world.[21][22]

Archaeological research

Greek and Swedish archaeologists have conducted research in Hermione since 2015, first in a project entitled A Greek cityscape and its people. A study of Ancient Hermione (2015-2017), which has been continued in a research program called Hermione: A model city (2018-). The projects aim to create a better understanding of life in a Greek polis from a long-term perspective through integrated studies of the built environment, landscape, family and other social structures as well as religious practices, including funerary rituals. The first results have been published in the journal of the Swedish Institute at Athens, called Opuscula,[23][24][25][26][27][28] and in the journal Archaeological Prospection.[29]

See also

Sources

References

  1. ^ so in Herodotus, Xenophon, and Strabo
  2. ^ Euripides Here. Fur. 615; Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.52.
  3. ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 20.
  4. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.335. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  5. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 8.43, 47.
  6. ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 4.37.
  7. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.560.
  8. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.373. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  9. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.374. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  10. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 3.59.
  11. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 8.43, 9.28.
  12. ^ Pausanias (1918). "34.5". 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.
  13. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.373. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  14. ^ Böckh, Inscr. no. 1193; Syll.³ 1051 (English translation)
  15. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.56, 8.3.
  16. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.44.
  17. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  18. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
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  19. ^ Eur. Her. 615.
  20. ^ Phot. Lex. s.v. Ἑρμιόνη; Plut. Pomp. 24.
  21. ^ Pausanias (1918). "35.1". 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. et seq.
  22. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.373. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  23. S2CID 239850621
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  24. S2CID 239853052
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  25. S2CID 239852595
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  26. S2CID 239879804
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  27. S2CID 239845580
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  28. S2CID 239831523
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  29. S2CID 219735024
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Hermione". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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