Prasiae
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Prasiae or Prasiai (), or Prasia (Πρασία), also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί), was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta. The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax speaks of it as a city and a harbour.
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- Instance of
- polis
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- South Kynouria Municipality
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0430-00-00
- member of
- Koinon of Free Laconians
- culture
- Sparta
- located in/on physical feature
- Laconia
- time period
- Ancient Greece
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name of the city
- Later history
- Modern location
- Footnotes
- References
Prasiae or Prasiai (), or Prasia (Πρασία), also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί), was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta. The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax speaks of it as a city and a harbour.
==Name of the city== The name of the town was derived by the inhabitants from the noise of the waves (Βράζειν). Pausanias relates a story, found nowhere else in Greece, that Semele, after giving birth to her son by Zeus, was discovered by Cadmus and put with Dionysus into a chest, which was washed up by the waves at Prasiae. Semele, who was no longer alive when found, received a splendid funeral, but the Prasiaeans brought up Dionysus and changed the name of their town from Oreiatae or Oreiatai (Ὀρειάταί) to Brasiae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prasiae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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