Pellene

Coordinates: 38°02′41″N 22°32′18″E / 38.0446°N 22.5384°E / 38.0446; 22.5384
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For the town in Laconia, see
Pellene (Laconia)
.
Not to be confused with Pallene.

Pellene (

Aegeira on the west. Pellene was situated 60 stadia from the sea, upon a strongly fortified hill, the summit of which rose into an inaccessible peak, dividing the city into two parts. Its port was at Aristonautae
.

Mythology and proto-history

Its name was derived by the inhabitants themselves from the giant

Macedonia professed to be descended from the Achaean Pallenians, who were driven on the Macedonian coast, on their return from Troy.[8]

History

At the commencement of the

Roman
conquest in 146 BCE.

Description

The buildings of Pellene are described by

Pheidias; a temple of Dionysus Lampter, in whose honour a festival, Lampteria, was celebrated; a temple of Apollo Theoxenius, to whom a festival, Theoxenia, was celebrated; a gymnasium, and more. Sixty stadia from the city was the Mysaeum (Μύσαιον), a temple of the Mysian Demeter; and near it a temple of Asclepius
, called Cyrus (Κῦρος): at both of these places there were copious springs.

Between Aegium and Pellene, ancient writers mention a village also called Pellene, celebrated for the manufacture of a particular kind of cloaks, which were given as prizes in the agonistic contests in the city.[15][16] Others, however, questions this second Pellene, supposing that Strabo is describing Pellene as both citadel and village.[17]

Situation

The ruins are southwest of Xylokastro on the northern coast of the Peloponnese.

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-19-814099-1
    .
  2. ^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 1.145.
  3. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.41.
  4. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.386. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  5. ^ Pausanias (1918). "26.12". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.-14
  6. ^ Apollon. 1.176.
  7. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.574.
  8. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 4.120.
  9. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.9.
  10. ^ Pausanias (1918). "27.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  11. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.52, 4.8, 13.
  12. ^ Plutarch, Aratus, 31–32; Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 4.8.4.
  13. ^ Plutarch, Aratus, 39.
  14. ^ Pausanias (1918). "27.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library. et seq.
  15. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.386. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  16. ^ Pindar O. 9.146, with Schol.; Aristophanes The Birds 1421, with Schol.; Hesych. and Phot. s. v. Πελληνικαὶ χλαῖναι.
  17. ^ E.g., K. O. Müller Dor. vol. ii. p. 430.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pellene". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

38°02′41″N 22°32′18″E / 38.0446°N 22.5384°E / 38.0446; 22.5384

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