Sphaeria
Sphaeria or Sphairia (
Peloponnesus) by a strait so narrow and shallow that there was a passage over it on foot.[1]
Pausanias wrote that on the island was the tomb of Sphaerus (
Ancient Greek: Ἀθηνᾶς Ἀπατουρίας) on the island. Due to this the name of the island changed to Sacred (Ἱερά) Island.[2] Furthermore, she also established a custom for the Troezenian maidens of dedicating their girdles before wedlock to Athena Apaturia.[2]
At present there is only one island, now called Poros; but as this island consists of two hilly peninsulas united by a narrow sandbank, William Martin Leake concluded that this bank is of recent formation, and that the present island comprehends what was formerly the two islands of Calaureia and Sphaeria.[3][4]
References
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "33.2". 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.
- ^ a b c Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.33.1
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Calaureia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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