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Tiryns (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Argive (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Euboea (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Prosymna (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Mycenae (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Fifteen stades distant from Mycenae is on the left the Heraeum. Beside the road flows the brook called Water of Freedom. The priestesses use it in purifications and for such sacrifices as are secret. The sanctuary itself is on a lower part of Euboea. Euboea is the name they give to the hill here, saying that Asterion the river had three daughters, Euboea, Prosymna, and Acraea, and that they were nurses of Hera.
The hill opposite the Heraeum they name after Acraea, the environs of the sanctuary they name after Euboea, and the land beneath the Heraeum after Prosymna. This Asterion flows above the Heraeum, and falling into a cleft disappears. On its banks grows a plant, which also is called asterion. They offer the plant itself to Hera, and from its leaves weave her garlands.
It is said that the architect of the temple was Eupolemus, an Argive. The sculptures carved above the pillars refer either to the birth of Zeus and the battle between the gods and the giants, or to the Trojan war an
Ilium (Turkey) (search for this): book 2, chapter 17
Tegea (search for this): book 2, chapter 17