Colonides

Colonides

Colonides

Town in ancient Messenia

Colonides or Kolonides (Ancient Greek: Κολωνίδες), also known as Colonis or Kolonis (Κολωνίς)[1] or as Colone or Kolone (Κολώνη),[2] was a town in the southwest of ancient Messenia described by Pausanias as standing upon a height at a short distance from the sea, and 40 stadia from Asine.[3] The inhabitants affirmed that they were not Messenians, but a colony led from Athens by Colaenus. It is mentioned by Plutarch as a place which Philopoemen marched to relieve leading to his capture and execution;[1] but according to the narrative of Livy, Corone was the place towards which Philopoemen marched.[4]

Its site is located near the modern Vournaria.[5][6]

References

  1. [1]
    Plutarch, Phil. 18.
  2. [2]
    Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.15.7.
  3. [3]
    Pausanias (1918). "34.8". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 12.
  4. [4]
    Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 39.49.
  5. [5]
    Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  6. [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). "Colonides". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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