Pharai (Messenia)

37.028333333333 22.129444444444Coordinates: 37 ° 1 '42 " N , 22 ° 7' 46" E

Pharai

Pharai ( Greek Φαραί , also Φηραί Pherai ) was an ancient Greek city on the Nedon in southern Messenia . Today's Kalamata is located here .

Pharai is already mentioned by Homer . The area of the city was founded in 394 BC. Devastated by the Athenian strategist Konon . At the latest by King Philip II of Macedonia, the city came to Messenia . From 182 BC Pharai was a member of the Achaean League and was assigned by Emperor Augustus to a league of formerly laconic places, the Eleutherolacons . Little remains of the ancient city.

literature

Yves Lafond: Pharai. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , column 737 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Homer Iliad 5: 543; 9, 151; 9, 293; Odyssey 3, 488.
↑ Xenophon hellenika 4, 8, 7; Cornelius Nepos Conon 1
↑ Strabon 8, 4, 6.
↑ Polybios 23, 17, 2.
↑ Pausanias 4:30, 2.

[1] Homer Iliad 5: 543; 9, 151; 9, 293; Odyssey 3, 488.

[2] Xenophon hellenika 4, 8, 7; Cornelius Nepos Conon 1

[3] Strabon 8, 4, 6.

[4] Polybios 23, 17, 2.

[5] Pausanias 4:30, 2.