Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Carnēus, Caryae

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Caryae

（Καρύαι). A town in Laconia near the borders of Arcadia, originally belonged to the territory of Tegea in Arcadia. Female figures in architecture that support burdens are said to have been called Caryatĭdes in token of the abject slavery to which the women of Caryae were reduced by the Greeks, as a punishment for joining the Persians at the invasion of Greece (Vitruv. i. 1, 5).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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