Lessa (Argolis)
Lessa ( Greek Λῆσσα ) was an ancient place in the Argolis . It was south of the Arachnaion Mountains on the road from Argos to Epidauros , on the border with the Epidaurian land.
Pausanias reports that there was a temple of Athena here. The wooden statue of the goddess is said to have not differed from the statue in Larissa Castle . Presumably Lessa was near what is now Lygourio . The ancient Lessa could also have been located on the Acropolis of Kazarma .
literature
- Lessa . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854. Volume 2, p. 167.
- Lessa . In: Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean. Athens 1999, ISBN 960-7859-17-9 , p. 273.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pausanias: Travels in Greece. 2, 25, 10-2, 26, 1.
- ^ William Martin Leake : Travels in the Morea . tape 2 . John Murray, London 1830, p. 419 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Emile Puillon Boblaye: Expédition scientifique de Morée. Geographical research on the ruins of the Moirée . FG Lavrault, Paris 1836, p. 53 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Ernst Curtius : Peloponnesos. A historical-geographical description of the peninsula . tape 2 . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1852, p. 418 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Richard Speicher: Peloponnese . 2nd Edition. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-17-010031-9 , pp. 183-184 .