Pedasus_(Messenia)

Pedasus (Messenia)

Pedasus (Messenia)

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Pedasus or Pedasos (Ancient Greek: Πήδασος) was a town of ancient Messenia, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven towns of Messenia offered by Agamemnon to Achilles, and described by him as ἀμπελόεσσα ('vine-covered').[1] Ancient authors identify its location with the later Methone.[2][3]

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  1. [1]
    Homer. Iliad. Vol. 9.294.
  2. [2]
    Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.359. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. [3]
    Pausanias (1918). "35.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.


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