Stenyklaros

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Stenyklaros ( Greek  Στενύκλαρος , Στενύκληρος) was an ancient Greek city and a plain in the north of Messinia . The plain was on the Pamisos River , but the exact location of the city is not known. Various attempts at identification were made.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ephoros , FGrH 70 F 116; Pausanias 4, 3, 7.
  2. Pausanias 4, 16, 4 and 4, 33, 4: Pedíon Stenyklḗrion or Stenyklērikón.
  3. ^ Franz Kiechle : Messenian studies . Kallmünz 1959, p. 74 identified them with the ancient settlement on the Ithome ; Mattias Natan Valmin : Études topographiques sur la Messénie ancienne . Lund 1930, p. 84 with the Kastro hill of Tsoukaleika.