Asine (Kastraki)
Asine ( ancient Greek Ασίνη ) was an ancient settlement in Greece. It was located on Cape Kastraki near the modern seaside resort of Tolo in the Argolis ( Peloponnese ). The place has been populated from the Early Helladic onwards. Contacts to the Cyclades , Melos and Crete can be proven from the earliest times . The place had its greatest importance as a harbor place in the Mycenaean times and remained continuously settled in the Sub-Mycenaean and Protogeometric times. Asine is also in the ship catalogmentioned in the Iliad . After the settlement was interrupted, in the 2nd century BC BC again a fortified place, which was then abandoned after Pausanias in the 2nd century AD.
Drepano , a town by the sea, is also part of today's Asini municipality .
literature
- Paul Åström : Asine, Argolid, Greece . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Dieter Hennig: Asine. In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1989, pp. 136-138
Web links
- Picture page
- Asine on the website of the Swedish Institute in Athens
Individual evidence
- ↑ Penelope A. Mountjoy : Mycenaean Pottery - An Introduction . 2nd Edition. Oxford University School Of Archeology, 2001, p. 129.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2,560.
Coordinates: 37 ° 31 ′ 37.2 " N , 22 ° 52 ′ 22.1" E