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"The gods can keep Olympus. This is the best view in all the Greek world."
Kassandra, on the view from the summit of Mount Taygetos, c. 431 BCE.[src]

Mount Taygetos (Greek: Ταΰγετος), also known as "Profitis Ilias", or "Prophet Elias" is the highest peak of the mountain range located in Peloponnese, Greece. The name 'Taygetos' is one of oldest recorded, appearing in the Odyssey. During Byzantine times and up until the 19th century, the mountain was also known as Pentadaktylos (Πενταδάκτυλος; Greek for five-fingered).

History

Sometime during the mid 440s BCE, the baby Alexios was sentenced to death after a prophecy from the Oracle of Delphi. Kassandra atttmped to save her brother and pushed the priest off the cliff to his death and was sentenced to death for murder. Nikolaos carried out the execution and threw her from the top of Mount Taygetos. However, both children survived and became fierce warriors.

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