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South-Western Laconia–Sites
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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I propose in this paper to give some account of the topography and existing remains of the district lying between the range of Taygetus and the eastern coast of the Messenian Gulf. The ground covered extends from Pyrgos on the south, some eight kilometres south of Areopolis, to Kalamata.
The sea border of the eastern shore of the Messenian Gulf consists of a narrow shelf of land lying along the foot of Taygetus, which here approaches everywhere nearer to the sea than on the side of the Laconian Gulf. It is everywhere mountainous, and in many places the outlying spurs of Taygetus run abruptly into the sea. Harbours are not infrequent, those of Limeni and Kardamyle being the safest and most commodious. The rivers are mere mountain torrents; water is scarce; the land is everywhere infertile, except here and there, where either a small stretch of plain borders the shore, as at Levctro, or a high plateau overlooks the sea, as at Koutiphari and Platsa; the rich valley of Kampos in the north is the only instance of an inland plain.
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page 159 note 1 See Frazer's note on Paus. iv. 1. 1.
page 160 note 1 Paus. iii. 25. 1. First identified by Boblaye (Recherches, p. 88).
page 160 note 2 See Coronelli, , Descr. de la Morée (Paris, 1687), p. 37Google Scholar, with a plan of the fortress.
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page 161 note 2 The whole passage runs, ‘atque etiam qui praeerant Lacedaemoniis, non contenti invigilantibus curis in Pasiphae fano, quod est in agro propter urbem, somniandi causa incubabant’ (Cic. loc. cit.).
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