Asopus (Laconia)

Asopus or Asopos (Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπός), also known as Asopolis (Ἀσώπολις),[1] was a town of ancient Laconia, on the eastern side of the Laconian Gulf, 60 stadia south of Acriae. It possessed a temple of the Roman emperors, and on the citadel a temple of Athena Cyparissia. At the distance of 12 stadia above the town there was a temple of Asclepius.[2][3][4][1] Pausanias says that at the foot of the acropolis of Asopus were the ruins of the city of the Achaei Paracyparissii.[5] Asopus was a town of the Eleuthero-Laconians.

Its site is located near the modern Plytra.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 647.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.364. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Pausanias (1918). "21.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 3.22.9
  4. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.16.9.
  5. ^ Pausanias (1918). "22.9". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  6. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  7. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.