Alagonia
Alagonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαγονία) was a town of Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia, but its site is unknown,[1] although it may be synonymous with the modern district within Kalamata, in the prefecture of Messenia.[2]
The city was named after the mythological Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa.[1][3][4]
References
- 1 2 Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 21. § 6-7, iii. 26. § 8-11
- ↑ Smith, William (1857), "Alagonia", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 1, London: Walton & Maberly, pp. 82–83
- ↑ Nat. Com. viii. 23
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Alagonia", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 88
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