Prasiae

For the deme of ancient Attica, see Prasiae (Attica).

Prasiae or Prasiai (Ancient Greek: Πρασιαί),[1][2][3] or Prasia (Πρασία),[4][5] also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί),[6] was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta.[6] The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax speaks of it as a city and a harbour.[4]

  1. ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.56.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii p. 368. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Aristophanes, Pac. 242
  4. ^ a b Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 17
  5. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.17.10.
  6. ^ a b Pausanias (1918). "24.3". 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.