Lapithaeum
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.990, 22.430
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient locality in Laconia
History
Lapithaeum or Lapithaion was a town of ancient Laconia. Pausanias writes that it was on Taygetus, 15 stades distant from the sanctuary of Persephone by Helos, and not far from Dereium. He writes that Lapithaeum was named after Lapithus, a native of the district.