[584] Ἀμύκλας: the seat of Tyndareüs and his s<*>ns. An old Achaean city in the va<*>ley of the Eurotas, about a league south of Sparta. It was one of the most important Laconian cities before the Dorian conquest, and long maintained its independence, by the side of Sparta.
Ἕλος: a city on the coast from which the name helot was said to be derived, since its inhabitants were enslaved by the Spartans.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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