Nestled in the mountains, Boura was either named for Ion’s daughter or the centaur Dexamenos, who owned cattle there. A site nearby was used to learn about the future by throwing knucklebones.
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[[Pellene]] has the distinction of being the first city in Achaia to join [[Sparta]] in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE. | [[Pellene]] has the distinction of being the first city in Achaia to join [[Sparta]] in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE. | ||
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|-|Agamemnon's Tomb= | |||
[[Agamemnon]] may have been [[Monarchy|king]] of [[Mycenae]] and commander of United Greek armies in the [[Trojan War]], but he had a less-than-glorious homecoming. While at a banquet, he was killed by his own [[Klytaimnestra|wife]]'s [[Aigisthos|lover]]. | |||
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The oldest sanctuaries in the [[Argos|city]] were built on two akropolises (sic) and housed the [[temple]]s of Athena Polias, Zeus Larisaios, Hera Akraia, and Apollo Pythaios, which was connected to [[the Bloody Oracle]]. | |||
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Apollo Maleatas and Asklepios shared this sacred place on Mount Kynortion. Starting in the eighth century BCE, people worshipped Apollo as both a physician and as Asklepios's father. | |||
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Founded at the foot of two akropolises (sic), Argos has been occupied since prehistoric times. Praised for its heroes, it gained great fame in the fifth century BCE for its talented sculptors. | |||
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Asine was destroyed in the seventh century BCE by the Argives for helping Sparta in their war against Argos. After its demise, the Spartans gave Asine citizens compensatory land in [[Messenia]]. | |||
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Revision as of 09:55, 25 August 2019
Historical Locations is a map overlay feature of Layla Hassan's Animus HR 8.5. It provided extra context to some of the landmarks visited by Kassandra during the Peloponnesian War while Layla was reliving Kassandra's memories.
Locations
Achaia
As the most prominent city in the region, Patrai was used as a naval base during the Peloponnesian War. It was also known for having twice as many women as men in its population.
Pellene has the distinction of being the first city in Achaia to join Sparta in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE.
Argolis
Agamemnon may have been king of Mycenae and commander of United Greek armies in the Trojan War, but he had a less-than-glorious homecoming. While at a banquet, he was killed by his own wife's lover.
The oldest sanctuaries in the city were built on two akropolises (sic) and housed the temples of Athena Polias, Zeus Larisaios, Hera Akraia, and Apollo Pythaios, which was connected to the Bloody Oracle.
Apollo Maleatas and Asklepios shared this sacred place on Mount Kynortion. Starting in the eighth century BCE, people worshipped Apollo as both a physician and as Asklepios's father.
Founded at the foot of two akropolises (sic), Argos has been occupied since prehistoric times. Praised for its heroes, it gained great fame in the fifth century BCE for its talented sculptors.
Asine was destroyed in the seventh century BCE by the Argives for helping Sparta in their war against Argos. After its demise, the Spartans gave Asine citizens compensatory land in Messenia.
Ithaka
This cave served as a shelter for the Naiads, young nymphs who spun the sea into a glisterning purple cloth. Odysseus prayed here in joy upon his return.
Eumaios was Odysseus' loyal swineherd. He was the first to welcome him back to (sic) Troy and assissted him in the slaughter of Penelope's suitors.
Melanthios, Odysseus' goatherd, mistook him for a beggar upon his return and hit him. Sure his master had died in Troy, he betrayed him to impress Penelope's suitors.
Odysseus, the most illustrious of all Greek heroes, was among the chiefs who set out for Troy. He returned to Ithaka and reclaimned his palace twenty years later.
Kephallonia
The largest on Kephallonia, the "Blue Cave" houses a small lake. It is part of a large cave system with more interconnected underground lakes.
The titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, Tethys married her brother Okeanos and became the mother of Greece's rivers.
Prehistoric bones were found inside this cave which reaches depths of 95 meters.
The ancient Greek word "kleptes" lives on as the root word of kleptomania, which describes an impulse to steal—usually without an economic motive.
Located near the city of Pronnoi, Kephallonia's only lake is so deep that it was long believed to have no bottom.
The Lightning Zeus is depicted as such to mirror the geophysical phenomena of Mount Ainos, known for its spectacular thunderstorms.
The Melissani Cave is dedicated to the god Pan. Located 20 m below ground, it is 160 m long and 40 m deep. it contains stalactites that are over 20,000 years old.
Sami is the oldest city on Kephallonia, an island reputed for the wood of its abies cephalonica (sic) fir trees.
Here, atop the island's tallest mountain, two of Jason's argonauts prayed to the Zeus of Ainos to give them the strength to defeat winged monsters called Harpies.
Early Greek temples were built out of clay and wood. Stone structures weren't adopted until the seventh century BCE.
Chthonios Zeus is the god of the earth credited with bountiful harvests.
This Mycenaean tomb notably housed the bones of seventy-two people. Among the remains were valuable offerings discovered near Pronnoi, believed to have belonged to ancient Ithakan nobility.
Kausos is the ancient Greek word for fever, a symptom of malaria noted by Hippokrates. The disease was a driving force behind the depopulation of rural areas.