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Its height, I conjecture, is about eight feet.
Samothrake was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothrakians take their rites. "In the gymnasium not far from the market-place [of Athens], called Ptolemy's from the founder, are stone Hermai [primitive stone statues of Hermes] well worth seeing.
To the south-west, the border with Messania ran along the tops of Mount Nomia, and Mount Elaeum, and from there the border with Elis ran along the valleys of the Erymanthos and Diagon rivers. 12 (trans. . "We, who dwell by the lake [Stymphalis in Arkadia], honour Hermes as our ancestor. Ancient Arcadia in the center of the Peloponnese, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 2.1, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcadia_(ancient_region)&oldid=970177036, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with missing country, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 July 2020, at 18:34.
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"Themisonion above Laodiceia is also inhabited by Phrygians. "The image of Hermes in the gymnasium [of Phigalia, Arkadia] is like to one dressed in a cloak; but the statue does not end in feet, but in the square shape. 4 : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
. Standing right on the earth, it is of square shape, and of no great size.
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Refugees from Asia Minor settled in Kato Panagia as a result of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
"Sokrates : Hipparkhos [an Athenian statesman late C6th B.C.] Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "Hermes, Herakles and Theseus, who are honored in the gymnasium and wrestling-ground according to a practice universal among Greeks, and now common among barbarians." : Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. These the people of Pharai adore, calling each by the name of some god. 1. 10. 47.
Pray to the Thesmophorai, Demeter and Koura [Persephone]; pray to Ploutos, Kalligeneia, Kourotrophos [Hekate], Ge (the Earth), Hermes and the Kharites (Graces), that all may happen for the best at this gathering, both for the greatest advantage of Athens and for our own personal happiness! . It rises to 2,376 m (7,795 ft) above … Hermes with a tortoise which he has caught to make a lyre. 3 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 2 : Mount Kyllini or Mount Cyllene is a mountain on the Peloponnese in Greece famous for its association with the god Hermes. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.
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that his people should not admire those wise Delphic legends of 'Know thyself' and 'Nothing overmuch', and the other sayings of the sort, but should rather regard as wise the utterances of Hipparkhos; and that in the second place, through passing up and down and reading his words and acquiring a taste for his wisdom, they might resort hither from the country for the completion of their education.
", Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 22. the image of Hermes, most devoutly worshipped by the inhabitants, is merely the male member upright on the pedestal. 2. Arcadia was gradually linked in a loose confederation that included all the Arcadian towns and was named League of the Arcadians. Coming at eventide, the inquirer of the god, having burnt incense upon the hearth, filled the lamps with oil and lighted them, puts on the altar on the right of the image a local coin, called a ‘copper,’ and asks in the ear of the god the particular question he wishes to put to him.
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Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. Geographically, ancient Arcadia occupied the highlands at the centre of the Peloponnese. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.
. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) An inscription on it says that Glaukias, a Rhegian by descent, dedicated it, and Gallon of Elis made it. "Some three stades away from the fountain [of Tegea, Arkadia] is a temple of Hermes Aipytos. Kastro is 5 km (3 mi) south of Kyllini and 7 km (4 mi) northwest of Vartholomio.
Whichever of the youths is judged to be the most handsome goes round the walls at the feast of Hermes, carrying a lamb on his shoulders.
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"As you go to the portico [in the marketplace of Athens] which they call painted, because of its pictures, there is a bronze statue of Hermes Agoraios (of the Market-place), and near it a gate. : Aesop, Fables 564 (from Babrius 48) (trans.
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"Near it [the market-place of Megalopolis in Arkadia] I found a temple of Hermes Akakesios in ruins, with nothing remaining except a tortoise of stone.
Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : The name of the spring is Hermes' stream, and the fish in it are not caught, being considered sacred to the god.
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On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes. Cyllene, an oread associated with the mountain; Kyllini, Elis, a town in Elis, Greece; Cyllene (Elis), a town of ancient Elis, Greece Kyllene (Aeolis), a town of ancient Aeolis, now in Turkey Kastro-Kyllini, a municipal unit in Elis, Greece The community of Kastro (Greek: Κάστρο) consists of the town Kastro and the small villages Analipsi, Kalamia, Karavaki, Loutra Kyllinis and Psili Rachi. The fortress was built by prince Geoffrey I Villehardouin of the Principality of Achaea in 1220-1223, who called it Clairmont (from which Chlemoutsi is a derivation ). 6 - 7 :
5 : ", Aelian, Historical Miscellany 2. 1 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Aeschylus, Fragment 150 Psychagogi (from Aristophanes, Frogs 1266 with Scholiast) (trans. 1 : 32. ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 1. There is no entrance to it, the sunlight does not reach very far, and the greater part of the roof lies quite close to the floor.".
Kastro-Kyllini is situated in the westernmost part of Elis and the Peloponnese, 12 kilometres (7 miles) west of Andravida and about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Pyrgos. To the east, it had borders with Argolis and Corinthia along the ridge of high ground running from Mount Cyllene round to Mount Oligyrtus and then south Mount Parthenius. On coming outside he takes his hands from his ears, and whatever utterance he hears he considers oracular.
", Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. By him stands a ram, for Hermes is the god who is thought most to care for and to increase flocks, as Homer puts it in the Iliad :--‘Son was he of Phorbas, the dearest of Trojans to Hermes, rich in flocks, for the god vouchsafed him wealth in abundance.’ The story told at the mysteries of the Mother [Demeter] about Hermes and the ram I know but do not relate.
He took his crown, went home after dinner and put it on the statue of Hermes by his front door, following the custom he had observed during the preceding days--in fact he had rested there crowns made from flowers, myrtle, ivy, and laurel and left them.
Behind the temple is the grave of Myrtilos. "The highest mountain in Arkadia is Kyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Hermes Kyllenios (of Mt Kyllene).
"At the Arkadian gate [of Ithome, Messenia] leading to Megalopolis is a Herma of Attic style; for the square form of Herma is Athenian, and the rest adopted it thence. 4 : [3] The population was 3,622 in 2011. "The two brothers [the Dioskouroi], at the games of Sparta's wide-built city, joint partons with Hermes and with Herakles the presidency share.
I consider that the people of Tanagra have better arrangements for the worship of the gods than any other Greeks. 6 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.
To the north, it bordered Achaea along the ridge of high ground running from Mount Erymanthos to Mount Cyllene; most of Mount Aroania lay within Arcadia. 27.