Bryseai
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.061, 22.385
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town of Laconia
History
Bryseae or Bryseai was a town of ancient Laconia, southwest of Sparta, at the foot of Mount Taygetus. Its name occurs in the Iliad. It was a small village by the time of Pausanias, in the 2nd century CE. Pausanias does mention a temple of the Cult of Dionysus at Bryseae which only women could enter.