- Information
- city and cult site in Laconia, near Sparta
- Cult site of
- 👤 Apollo 👤 Cassandra 👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan)
- Place of death of
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aigisthos 👤 Cassandra 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan)
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Cassandra 👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan)
- Founded by
👤 Amyclas (Laconian) son of Lacedaimon
PausaniasGeographyPausaniasGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
- Eponym
👤 Amyclas (Laconian) son of Lacedaimon
PausaniasGeographyPausaniasGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
- Ruled by
👤 Philonomos betrays Laconia to the Heracleidai, rules Amyclai as reward
StraboGeographyStraboGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)EphorosMythography & HistoriographyEphorosLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) city in Ionia
Conon, NarrationsCononLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
- Conquered by
👥 the Heracleidai descendants of Heracles, successfully take Peloponnese
PausaniasGeographyPausaniasGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the Tomb of Hyacinthos (Amyclai) 🏛️ the Tomb of Agamemnon (Amyclai) 🏛️ the Tomb of Cassandra (Amyclai)
- Encompases
- 🏛️ the Tomb of Hyacinthos (Amyclai) 🏛️ the Tomb of Agamemnon (Amyclai) 🏛️ the Tomb of Cassandra (Amyclai) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo at Amyclai (Laconia)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aigimios 👤 Aigisthos 👤 Amyclas (Laconian) 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Artemis 👤 Cassandra 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Deiphobos (Laconian) 👤 Eurysthenes 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Heracles 👤 Hilaeira 👤 Hippocoon (Spartan) 👥 the Sons of Hippocoon 👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan) 👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira) 👤 Idas (Argonaut) 👤 Iphigeneia 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Pamphylos 👤 Helen 👤 Phoibe (Messenian) 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Procles (Heraclid) 👤 Lynceus (Argonaut) 👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Tenedos (island) 🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Helos (Laconia) 🌍 Ephesos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Delos (island) 👥 the Achaians 🌍 Melos (island) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 River Parthenios (Paphlagonia) 🌍 Messe (Laconia) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Oitylos (Laconia) 👤 Zephyr 🌍 Augeiai (Laconia) 🌍 Pherai (Messenia) 🌍 Imbros (island) 👤 Aigeus (s. of Oiolycos) 🌍 River Cnacion (Laconia) 🌍 Achaia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Mount Taygete (Laconia/Messenia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Hyacinthos (Amyclai) 🏛️ the Tomb of Agamemnon (Amyclai) 🌍 Pharis (Laconia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Cassandra (Amyclai) 👥 the Heracleidai 🌍 Ionia 🌍 Hybla Gereatis (Sicily) 🌍 Old Las (Laconia) 🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly) 🌍 Bryseai (Laconia) 👤 Peisandros (Spartan) 👤 Argeios (s. of Pelops) 👤 Arsinoa 🌍 Tenedos (city) 👤 Philonomos 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo at Amyclai (Laconia) 👤 Enaesimus 👤 Pollis 👤 Delphos (Laconian)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.6.2 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 535-566 📖 Pausanias 3.1.3 📖 Pausanias 3.12.9 📖 Pausanias 3.20.6 📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 985-986 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.581-2.590 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 16.2 MacLeod 📖 Pindar, Pythian 1 58-80 📖 Pindar, Pythian 11 1-37 📖 Pindar, Nemean 11 33-48 📖 Pindar, Isthmian 7 1-19 📖 Pherecydes of Athens fr. 132 Fowler 📖 Strabo 8.5.4-8.5.5 📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.72-3.94 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 75 Harder 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.260-8.328 📖 Conon, Narrations 36
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Euripides, Trojan Women Pausanias Pherecydes of Athens Strabo Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Pindar, Pythian 1 Pindar, Pythian 11 Pindar, Nemean 11 Pindar, Isthmian 7 Ovid, Metamorphoses Vergil, Georgics Conon, Narrations
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.581-2.590 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 117
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Cassandra 👤 Alexandra (alt. Cassandra)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 3.19.6