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🌍 Hermion (Argolid)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10187214" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10187214">📖 Pausanias 2.35.4</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291335" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291335">📖 Pausanias 2.35.9-2.35.10</span>
  • Alternative names
    Hermione
    Information
    city in southern Argolid encompassing also "Old Hermion", a Mycenaean city in ruins in the historical period
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570292
    Serves as entrance to
    🌍 the Underworld
    Cult site of
    👤 Helios👥 the Charites👤 Sarapis👤 Isis👤 Clymenos (Argive)👤 Hades👤 Demeter
    Founded by
    👤 Hermion (Argive)👥 the Dryopes
    Founded from
    🌍 the Land of the Dryopes🌍 Tiryns (Argolid)
    Settled by
    👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese
    Settled from
    🌍 Argos (city)
    Eponym
    👤 Hermion (Argive)
    Relics preserved on site
    🏛️ the Stadium at Old Hermion (Argolid)
    Encompasses
    🌍 the Sanctuary of Demeter Chthonia at Hermion (Argolid) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Clymenos at Hermion (Argolid) 🌍 the Place of Clymenos (Hermion)  🌍 Lake Acherousia (Argolid) 🏛️ the Stadium at Old Hermion (Argolid)
    Related Entities
    👤 Hades👤 Zeus (Olympian)🌍 the Underworld👤 Persephone👤 Demeter🌍 Eleusis (Attica)🏛️ Rock Agelastos (Eleusis)🏛️ Callichoron Well (Eleusis)⏳ the Search of Demeter for Persephone🌍 Epidauros (Argolid)👥 the Argos Contingent at Troy (attackers)🌍 Argos (city)🌍 Tiryns (Argolid)🌍 Troizen (Argolid)🌍 Aigina (island)🌍 Asine (Argolid)🌍 Eion (Argolid)🌍 Mases (Argolid)👤 Hermion (Argive)👥 the Charites👤 Isis👤 Sarapis👤 Helios👤 Chthonia (Argive II)👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese🏛️ the Stadium at Old Hermion (Argolid)👤 Aias (the greater)🌍 Corinth (Argolid)👤 Helen🌍 Megara (Argolid)👤 Eurystheus🌍 the Land of the Dryopes👥 the Dryopes🌍 Arcadia👤 Dryops (eponym)🌍 River Spercheios (C. Greece)👤 Heracles🌍 Doris (N. Greece)🌍 Alycos (city)👤 Charon (boatman)👤 Clymenos (Argive)👤 Chthonia (Argive I)🌍 the Sanctuary of Demeter Chthonia at Sparta👤 Cerberos (dog)🌍 River Acheron (Underworld)👤 Castor (Spartan)👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)🌍 Hermion (Argolid)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.5.1-1.5.3📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.5.1📖 Homer, Iliad 2.559-2.568📖 Pausanias 2.34.4-2.34.5📖 Pausanias 2.34.9-2.34.10📖 Pausanias 2.35.4📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 155 Most📖 Diodoros, Library 4.37.1-4.37.2📖 Strabo 8.6.13📖 Strabo 8.6.12📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 174 Hollis📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 99 Hollis
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, LibraryHomer, IliadPausaniasHesiod, EhoiaiDiodoros, LibraryStraboCallimachus, Hecale
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 2.35.4 📖 Pausanias 2.35.9-2.35.10
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