Roustiana
Roustiana ( Greek Ρούστιανα ) is an archaeological site in the Kallidromo Mountains, about 7 km west of Livanates . It is an acropolis on a wooded mountain surrounded by a Cyclopean wall . Without excavation, numerous Mycenaean pottery shards were made as surface discoveries during an inspection of the steep terrain . During excavations, a ceramic boat with wheels from the Late Helladic period was discovered , the only known Mycenaean toy of this type. At the foot of the Acropolis, only pithos graves were found, in which the corpse is buried in a clay vessel, from the classical period. The youngest graves were from the end of the 4th century BC. Chr.
The Greek archaeologist Fanouria Dakoronia suspected on the basis of the geographical location and the archaeological evidence that it was the place Bessa ( Greek Βῆσσα = gorge , forest valley ) mentioned in Homer . Strabon points out that the name Bessa has to be spelled with two S because of its location in the forest.
Web links
- Ιωάννης Μηλιώνης: "Απειλές της" Νέας Εποχής "στην ευαίσθητη ψυχή των παιδιών μας" at aktines.blogspot.de (gr.)
- Ο ΚΥΝΟΣ των ΟΠΟΥΝΤΙΩΝ ΛΟΚΡΩΝ at hellinon.net (gr.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fanouria Dakoronia: Homeric Towns in East Lokris. Problems of Identification. in Hesperia , Volume 62,1, 1993, p. 126 ( online )
- ↑ Homer: Iliad , 2.532
- ↑ Strabo: Geographica , 9,4,5
Coordinates: 38 ° 43 ′ 28 " N , 22 ° 58 ′ 34" E