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🌍 Asine (Messenia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291157" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291157">📖 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11</span>
  • Information
    city in Messenia
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16488997
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570125
    Identified with
    🌍 Antheia (Messenia) unlocatable city in Messenia, identified as Thouria or Asine
    Cult site of
    👤 Dryops (eponym) eponym of Dryopes, son of Apollo👤 Apollo Olympian god
    Related entities
    👤 Apollo Olympian god🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) mountain in Phocis👤 Dryops (eponym) eponym of Dryopes, son of Apollo🌍 Antheia (Messenia) unlocatable city in Messenia, identified as Thouria or Asine
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11📖 Strabo 8.4.5
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasStrabo
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Homer, Iliad
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Iliad 9.270-9.320
    Reported to have local traditions about
    👤 Eurystheus assigns Heracles his labors👤 Heracles greatest Greek hero🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) city in the Argolid🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) mountain in Phocis🌍 Asine (Argolid) city in the Argolid👥 the Dryopes ethnic collective👤 Apollo Olympian god👤 Dryops (eponym) eponym of Dryopes, son of Apollo
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11
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