Pharai (Messenia)
Coordinates: 37 ° 1 '42 " N , 22 ° 7' 46" E
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.