Thalamae (Laconia)
36°47′10″N 22°19′32″E / 36.786208°N 22.325671°E Thalamae or Thalamai (
Messenia
.
According to
Amphion, brought colonists from Boeotia; and was called in the time of Strabo the Boeotian Thalamae.[2]
It stood 80
Eleuthero-Laconian towns.[8] In the territory of Thalamae, on the road to Oetylus was a temple and oracle of Ino or Pasiphaë, in which the future was revealed to those that slept in the temple. Even the Spartan kings sometimes slept in the temple for this purpose.[3][9][10]
The site of Thalamae is located with the modern village of Thalames (formerly Koutiphari, but renamed to reflect the historical association).[11][12]
References
- ^ a b Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.16.22.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.360. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ a b Pausanias (1918). "26.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 2
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.361. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. sub voce Θαλάμαι.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "1.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 16.16.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "21.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Plutarch, Agis 9
- ^ Cicero, de Divin. 1.43.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thalamae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.