Iasus (Laconia)

Iasus or Iasos (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) was a town in ancient Laconia, which Pausanias describes as belonging to the Achaeans.[1][2] William Smith conjectures that Iasus may be the same as Oeum;[3] the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World conjecture that it may be the same as Caryae.[4]

Its site is dependent on which, if either, of the conjectures is correct.

  1. ^ Pausanias (1918). "13.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ^ Suda s. v. Ἴασος.
  3. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oeum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  4. ^ 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.