Genesium or Genesion (Ancient Greek: Γενέσιον) or Genese (Γενέση)[1] was a town of ancient Argolis upon the Argolic Gulf, south of Lerna, and north of the mountain pass, called Anigraea, leading into the Thyreatis.[2] Pausanias also calls the place Genethlium or Genethlion (Γενέθλιον), and says less correctly that near it was the spring of fresh water rising in the sea, called Dine; whereas this spring of fresh water is to the south of the Anigraea.[3] By the sea is a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesius (Γενεσίου Ποσειδῶνος).[2] Apobathmi was next to Genesium.[2]

The surrounding country was called Pyramia (Πυράμια), from the monuments in the form of pyramids found here.[4][5]

Its site is located near the modern Kiveri.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  2. 1 2 3 Pausanias (1918). "38.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 2. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  3. ↑ Pausanias (1918). "7.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  4. ↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 32
  5. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Apobathmi
  6. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  7. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Genesium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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