GENE´SIUM
GENE´SIUM (
Γενέσιον), a place in the Argeia upon the Argolic gulf, S. of Lerna, and N. of the mountain pass, called Anigraea, leading into the Thyreatis. (
Paus. 2.38.4.) Pausanias, in another passage (8.7.2), calls the place Genethlium (
Γενέθλιον), and says less correctly that near it was the spring of fresh water rising in the sea, called Dine; whereas this spring of fresh water is to the S. of the Anigraea. [
ARGOS p. 202b.] Near this place Danaus is said to have landed. [
APOBATHMI] No remains of Genesium have been found, but it must have stood near the village of
Kyvéri. (Leake,
Morea, vol. ii. pp. 477, 480; Boblaye,
Recherches, &c. p. 48; Ross,
Reisen im Peloponnes, p. 152; Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii p. 371.)