Teuthrone

Teuthrone (Ancient Greek: Τευθρώνη) was a town of ancient Laconia, situated upon the western side of the Laconian Gulf, 150 stadia from Cape Taenarum.

According to the ancient inhabitants it was founded by the Athenian Teuthras (Τεύθρας).^[1] The chief deity worshiped here was Artemis Issoria.^[1] It had a fountain called Naia (Ναΐα).^[1]

Augustus made Teuthrone one of the Eleuthero-Laconian towns.^[2][3] Its ruins exist at the modern village of Kotronas,^[4][5] and its citadel occupied a small peninsula, called Skopos, Skopia or Skopópolis.

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.25.4
2. Pausanias (1918). "21.7". 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., 3.25.4
3. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.16.9.
4. 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.
5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

Bibliography

• Moschou, Lidas; Moschou, Taki (1983). "Τὸ ἀρχαῖο φρούριο τῆς Τευθρώνης". Ἀρχαιολογικὴ Ἐφημερις. 1981: 10–22.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Teuthrone". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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