Oechalia
Ciudad antigua · Grecia
- Abandonado
- desconocido
- Fundado
- —
- Población
- —
- Coordenadas
- 37.260, 21.940
Por qué se abandonó
🏛️ Ruinas antiguas
Detectado automáticamente a partir del texto: ancient town of Messenia
Historia
Oechalia or Oichalia was a town in ancient Messenia, in the plain of Stenyclerus. It was in ruins in the time of Epaminondas, and its position was a matter of dispute in later times. Strabo identified it with Andania, the ancient residence of the Messenian kings, and Pausanias with Carnasium, which was only 8 stadia distant from Andania, and upon the river Charadrus. Carnasium, in the time of Pausanias, was the name given to a grove of cypresses, in which were statues of Apollo Carneius, of Hermes Criophorus, and of Persephone. It was here that the mystic rites of the great goddesses were celebrated, and that the urn was preserved containing the bones of Eurytus, the son of Melaneus.
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