Aegiae

Aegiae or Aigiai (Ancient Greek: Αἰγίαι)[1] or Aegaeae or Aigaiai (Αἱγαῖαι)[2] was a town of ancient Laconia, at the distance of 30 stadia from Gythium, supposed by Strabo to be the same as the Homeric Augeiae[3] It possessed a temple and lake of Poseidon.

References
  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 3.21.5.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. p. 364. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. Αν̓γελαί, Homer. Iliad. 2.583.


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