36°47′11″N 22°30′46″E / 36.786285°N 22.512906°E / 36.786285; 22.512906 Aegiae or Aigiai (Ancient Greek: Αἰγίαι)[1] or Aegaeae or Aigaiai (Αἱγαῖαι)[2] was a town of ancient Laconia, at the distance of 30 stadia from Gythium, supposed by Strabo to be the same as the Homeric Augeiae[3] It possessed a temple and lake of Poseidon.

References

  1. ↑ Pausanias (1918). "21.5". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 364. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Αν̓γελαί, Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.583.


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