Alagonia

Alagonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαγονία) was a town of ancient Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia.[1]

The city was named after the mythological Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa.[1][2][3]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Anatoliko.[4][5]

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 21. § 6-7, iii. 26. § 8-11
2. Natalis Comes, Mythologiae viii.23
3. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Alagonia", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 88
4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
5. 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). "Alagonia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.