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Hellespont (Turkey) (search for this): book 3, chapter 17
Olympia (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 17
Arcadia (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 17
Aphidna (search for this): book 3, chapter 17
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Not far from the Orthia is a sanctuary of Eileithyia. They say that they built it, and came to worship Eileithyia as a goddess, because of an oracle from Delphi.The Lacedaemonians have no citadel rising to a conspicuous height like the Cadmea at Thebes and the Larisa at Argos. There are, however, hills in the city, and the highest of them they call the citadel.
Here is built a sanctuary of Athena, who is called both City-protecting and Lady of the Bronze House. The building of the sanctuary was begun, they say, by Tyndareus. On his death his children were desirous of making a second attempt to complete the building, and the resources they intended to use were the spoils of Aphidna. They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that the Lacedaemonians made of bronze both the temple and the image of Athena. The builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, who also composed Dorian lyrics, including a hymn to the goddess. c. 500 B.C
On the bronze are wrought in relief many of
Plataea (search for this): book 3, chapter 17
Ephesus (Turkey) (search for this): book 3, chapter 17