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II.—Topography: §1.—Gythium and the North-West Coast of the Laconian Gulf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Extract

I Propose here to discuss briefly the topography of the triangular district which is bounded on the west by the range of Taygetus, on the east by the sea from the mouth of the Eurotas to the Bay of Skutari, and on the north by an imaginary line drawn from the mouth of the Eurotas due west to Taygetus.

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Laconia
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1907

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References

page 220 note 1 Population in 1889, 3686; in 1896, 4061.

page 220 note 2 References to Gythium in ancient authors: Paus. iii. 21. 8 ff.; Strabo, vii. 5. 2; Thuc. i. 108, iv. 53; Xen. Hell. vi. 5. 32; Polyb. v. 19. 6; Scylax, 47. 6; Lycophron, 98; Pomponius Mela, ii. 3. 51; Liv. xxxiv. 29, xxxv. 27.

Bibliography: Leake, , Morea, i. 244 ff.Google Scholar; Curtius, , Pelop. ii. 268 ff.Google Scholar; Bursian, Geog. 144–145; Phillipson, Pelop. 216; Boblaye, Recherches, 86 ff.; Walpole, Memoirs Relating to Turkey, 57 ff.; Ross, , Wanderungen, ii. 231235, 238Google Scholar; Bas, Le, Voyage Arch. Itin. 25, 26 Google Scholar; Wyse, T. Sir, Travels, i. 40 ff.Google Scholar; Stephanopoulo, Voyages en Grèce, chs. xxii.−xxv.; Patsourakos, J. Πραγματεία περί του αρχαίου Λυθείου (Athens, 1902)Google Scholar; Bull. de Corr. Hell. xv. (1891), 654; Rev. Arch. 1845, 206–217; Ath. Mitt. i. 151–157; Πρακτικὰ τῆς Ἑλλ. Ἀρχ. Ἑτ. 1891, 27–35; Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1891, 55–64; 185–204.

Maps and Plans: British Admiralty Chart, Plan of Gythium (1902): Le Bas, Voyage Arch. Pl. 26; Curtius, Pelop. taf. xii.; Πρακτικά, loc. cit.(Theatre).

page 221 note 1 iii. 21. 6–22. 2.

page 221 note 2 Ibid. iii. 21. 8–9.

page 221 note 3 For the cult of Dionysos at Gythium see B.S.A. x. pp. 181–182.

page 221 note 4 For the cult of Demeter at Gythium see ib. pp. 180–181.

page 221 note 5 C.B. 4567; Le B.F. No. 243.

page 221 note 6 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. l.c.

page 3 note 7 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. i. p. 378; Le B.-F. No. 241 b; Hultsch, Metrologie, pp. 537–539; Rev. Arch. 1872, p. 297; ib. 1903, p. 27.

page 221 note 8 Mau, Pompeii, pp. 92–93 and 340.

page 222 note 1 Paus. iii. 21. 9.

page 222 note 2 iii. 21. 4 and 22. 3.

page 222 note 3 Paus. iii. 21. 9.

page 222 note 4 Ib. 22. 1.

page 222 note 5 C.-B. 4563.

page 223 note 1 Paus. iii. 22. 1.

page 223 note 2 Paus. I.c.; Hom. Il. iii. 445.

page 223 note 3 Paus. iii. 22. 2.

page 224 note 1 C.-B. 4564, C.I.G. 1469.

page 224 note 2 Paus. iii. 22. 2.

page 224 note 3 Paus. I.c. says that grapes grew here; hence the necessity of finding a site where there would be sufficient soil for cultivation.

page 225 note 1 Πρακτικά, 1891, pp. 71 ff and Plan, to which add B.S.A. x. p. 180.

page 225 note 2 Pelop. ii. pp. 268 ff.; Strabo, vii. 5. 2.

page 228 note 1 iii. 21. 8.

page 229 note 1 iii. 24. 8; the name is used in the dative, Ὕψοις, so that the form of the nominative may have been Ὕψα or Ὕψοι.

page 229 note 2 Paus. iii. 21. 8.

page 230 note 1 Paus. iii. 22. 3.

page 231 note 1 Strabo, vii. 5. 4.

page 231 note 2 Paus. iii. 21. 4; Curtius, , Pelop. ii. 266.Google Scholar

page 231 note 3 Hom. Il. ii. 583; Strabo, vii. 5. 3; Paus. iii. 21. 5; Ross, , Wanderungen, ii. 229 Google Scholar; Boblaye, Recherches, 85; Curtius, , Pelop. ii. 276 Google Scholar; Bursian, , Geogr. ii. 229 Google Scholar; Leake, Pelop. 170.

page 231 note 4 Paus. loc. cit.

page 232 note 1 Bibliography of Las: Horn. Il. ii. 585; Paus. iii. 24. 6; Strabo, vii. 5. 3; Lycophron, 93; Scylax, p. 17; Thuc. viii. 91; Steph. Byz. sub. voc; Livy, xxxviii. 30; Curtius, , Pelop. ii. 273 ff.Google Scholar; Boblaye, Recherches, 87 ff.; Leake, , Morea, i. 255 ff.Google Scholar, Pelop. 174; Bursian, , Geogr. ii. 147.Google Scholar

page 232 note 2 For a description of Passava see Traquair, R., B.S.A. xii. pp. 274 Google Scholar, 275, and Plan, p. 263, Fig. 3.

page 232 note 3 Loc. cit.; Traquair, B.S.A. loc. cit., seems to think that this masonry belongs to an earlier mediaeval castle.

page 233 note 1 Loc. cit.

page 233 note 2 Ath. Mitt. xxix. (1904), pp. 21–24; xxx (1905), PP. 408, 409 (similar ram's head of Roman date from Zurich).

page 233 note 3 B.S.A. x. p. 187, No. 18; Mr. A. M. Woodward, who visited the site in 1907, was shown amongst other small objects a fine bronzeCorinthian pin-head.

page 233 note 4 B.M. Cat. Pelop. Pl 26; Leake, Num. Hell. p. 60; Mionnet, Suppl. pp. 234, 235.

page 234 note 1 iii. 24. 9.

page 234 note 2 iii. 24. 10.

page 234 note 3 iii. 25. 1.

page 234 note 4 Mr. Woodward sends me the following note: ‘Close to the Roman building I found three Ionic capitals, of which two were smaller and poorer in style than the other; also marble blocks and a piece of Ionic cornice of fairly good style; they may have belonged to the shrine of Zeus.’

page 235 note 1 vii. 5. 2.

page 235 note 2 v. 9.

page 235 note 3 iv. 54.

page 235 note 4 Loc. cit. and vii. 5. 3.

page 235 note 5 Strabo, vii. 5. 2.

page 235 note 6 Polyb. v. 9.

page 235 note 7 B.S.A. x. p. 160.

page 235 note 8 Paus. iii. 25. 4.

page 236 note 1 Paus. iii. 21. 4; Philippson, Pelop. 215 and 387.

page 236 note 2 Thuc. i. 108.

page 236 note 3 lb. iv. 54.

page 236 note 4 Xen. Hell. vi. 5. 32.

page 236 note 5 Polyb. v. 19. 6.

page 236 note 6 xxxiv. 29.