Amyclae
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
A Laconian place near the invaders' crossing of the Eurotas.
Now when, in its onward march, the army of the enemy came opposite Amyclae, at this point they crossed the Eurotas.
Furthermore, when it fell to their lot to cross over to Prasiae last of those who joined in the expedition (and these were the Corinthians, Epidaurians, Troezenians, Hermionians, Halians, Sicyonians, and Pelleneans — for at that time the last mentioned had not yet revolted from the Lacedaemonians), even when the Lacedaemonian leader went off with those who had crossed first and left the Phliasians …
Isthmean
A Laconian town captured by the Theban Aegeids according to the Pythian oracles.
Or because you stood upright on its feet the Dorian colony of the men of Lacedaemon, and your descendants, the Aegeids, captured Amyclae according to the Pythian oracles?
Nemean
Town of origin for the ancestor Peisander.
Truly, it was easy to recognize in him the ancient blood of Peisander of Sparta, who came from Amyclae with Orestes, leading here a bronze-armored host of Aetolians, and also the blending of his blood with that of his mother’s ancestor Melanippus, beside the stream of the Ismenus.