Kenchreai (Argolis)

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Kenchreai ( Greek Κεγχρεαί ) was an ancient place in Greece . It was to the right of the Trochos, the ancient route from Argos to Tegea . In 669/668 BC The first battle of Hysiai took place. In this battle, Pheidon , the tyrant of Argos, defeated the attacking Spartans . The fallen Argiver were buried in a mass grave (Polyandrion) in Kenchreai. According to Strabo , Kenchreai was in the Parthenion Mountains .

It was previously assumed that the pyramid of Hellinikon was this mass grave. However, Pausanias mentions that from Kenchreai to Hysiai one has to go down the mountain. He also traces the name of the place back to Kenchrias, the son of Peirene , so that one must assume that there was a spring at the place. This source is also mentioned by Aeschylus as the Kerchneia source. Today it is assumed that the place was near Skaphidaki. This place is also called Ta Nera ( Greek Τα Νερά = the waters ).

Around 2000 the monastery of Panagia tou Akathistou Ymnou (Virgin of Akathistos Hymnos) was built here. It is the only remaining male monastery in the Argolida . In addition to the Katholikon, there is also a chapel of Agios Petros of Argos and Panagia.

literature

  • Susanne Grunauer from Hoerschelmann: Hysiai (Arkadia). In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 274 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pausanias , Travels in Greece 2,24,7.
  2. ↑ Strabo, Geographica 8,6,17.
  3. ^ Pausanias , Travels in Greece 2,24,7.
  4. ↑ Aeschylus, The Fettered Prometheus 676.
  5. ↑ Petros Sara Takis: Argolida, Churches & Monasteries. A humble pilgrimage in sacred places. Ekdoseis Oiatēs, Athens 2007, ISBN 978-960-91420-4-5 , pp. 41-42.

Coordinates: 37 ° 32 ′ 49.7 "  N , 22 ° 36 ′ 30.3"  E