Issorium

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The Issorium or Issorion (Ἰσσώριον; Issṓrion), or Mount Issorion, was a hill on the northern city border of Sparta, possibly the heights known today as Klaraki.[citation needed] On it was a sanctuary and temple to the goddess Artemis or Diana, in which context the goddess was surnamed Artemis Issoria.[1][2] (Or, from the nearby[1] Laconian town of Pitane, Artemis Pitanata;[1][3] or Artemis Limnaea.[1])

During the Theban–Spartan War, circa 370 BC, the Issorium was seized by a group of Spartan mutineers; Agesilaus II broke up the conspiracy and had fifteen of the mutineers put to death.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d William Martin Leake (1830). Travels in the Morea. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 177.
  2. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Issoria". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The entry cites Paus. iii.14 §2.25 and §3; Hesych. s. v.; Steph. Byz. s. v.; Plut. Ages. 32; Polyaen. ii.14.
  3. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Pitanatis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The entry cites Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 172; Paus. iii.16 §9; Eurip. Troad. 1101.
  4. ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Agesilaus" 32 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).

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