Prasiai (Attica)
Prasiai or Prasiä was the name of a port in Attica in ancient times . He belonged to the Phyle Pandionis and was located in the coastal Trittye South Myrrhinous . It was located in the area of today's Porto Rafti and the name Prasonisi ( Greek ischρασονήσι = "green island") of the island, which is off the Punta peninsula, possibly goes back to Prasiai. The claim that the place was on the Koroni Peninsula has been refuted by excavations.
Prasiai seems to have been a very old place. Erysichthon is said to have crossed from here to Delos in order to take part in the annual festival of Apollo 's sacrifice . On the way back, however, he died and was buried in Prasiai. His grave is said to be on the island of Rafti. The offerings of the Hyperboreans were also brought to Prasiai in the Temple of Apollo by messengers and an Athenian delegation took them to Delos. In addition to the temple for Apollo, there is said to have been one for Athena Pronoia, which was founded by Diomedes , and a Heracles sanctuary.
Titus Livius mentions that Issaians used Prasiai as a naval base during the Second Macedonian-Roman War .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabo , Geographica , 399.
- ^ Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War , 8, 95.
- ↑ Augustus Meineke , Stephani Byzantii ethnicorum quae supersunt , Berlin 1849. [1]
- ↑ James R. McCredie, Fortified military camps in Attica , Princeton, New Jersey 1966, pp. 1-16. [2]
- ^ Pausanias , Journeys in Greece , 1, 31, 2.
- ↑ Immanuel Bekker , Anecdota Graeca , Part 1, Berlin 1814, p. 299 [3]
- ↑ Titus Livius, From the Foundation of the City - 142 Books , 31, 45.
literature
- Habbo Gerhard Lolling , Prasiä . in communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department , 1879 ( digitized version )
Coordinates: 37 ° 53 ′ 4 " N , 24 ° 0 ′ 45" E