Ladon (Peneios)
The Ladon River runs through the Greek landscape of Elis and flows into the Peneios , according to Pausanias . Both the Ladon and the Peneios have their source at Mount Erymanthus on the Peloponnese peninsula and flow off in a westerly direction. In general, the Ladon is equated with the selleis , which is mentioned by the ancient geographer Strabo .
According to another passage near Strabo, the Peneios flowed behind the former grammar school through the city of Pylos in Elis. He describes the location of the city shortly afterwards as follows: "Between the mouth of the Peneios and the Selleeis at the [mountain] Skollion [the city] Pylos." This statement does not fit the equation of the Selleeis mentioned by Strabo with that of Pausanias called Ladon.
literature
- FW Putzger: Historical World Atlas. 94th edition, Berlin 1970, map pp. 9-10.
- John Coleman, Katherine Abramovitz: Excavations at Pylos in Elis (= Hesperia. Supplement volume 21). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 1986, ISBN 0-87661-521-3 .
- Richard Gaede: Demetrii Scepsii quae supersunt . Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1880 ( PDF version ), pp. 4–7 u. P. 48 (fragment 56).
- Anna Maria Biraschi: Demetrios skeptical. In: Brill's New Jacoby : The fragments of the Greek historians Part V. Brill, Leiden 2011 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 6,22,5. See also the map at Putzger, Historical World Atlas, Ancient Greece - Southern Part (Peloponnese)
- ^ A b John Coleman, Katherine Abramovitz: Excavations at Pylos in Elis. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton 1986, ISBN 0-87661-521-3 , p. 157.
- ^ Strabo, Geography 8,3,2 (p. 337).
- ↑ Strabo, Geography 8,3,7 (p. 339). Translation after Stefan Radt : Strabons Geographika. Volume 2: Book V – VIII: Translation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-25951-4 , p. 407.