Augeiae or Augeiai (Ancient Greek: Αὐγειαί)[1] was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad,[2] Strabo says the town was the same as the later Aegiae.[3] Pausanias agrees with Strabo in that the name of the city had changed, but with a small variation, since he calls it "Aegias", which he places at thirty stadia from Gythium and situates in it a lagoon with a temple and a statue of Poseidon. There was a superstition that those who caught fish from the lagoon would become fishermen.[4]
If Augeiae is colocated with Aegiae, it is at 36°47′11″N 22°30′46″E / 36.786285°N 22.512906°E.[5]
References
edit- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.583.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 8.5.3. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "21.5". 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.6.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Augeiae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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