Epidaurus
place · 4 works · 8 mentions · 13 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Peloponnesian city ravaged and unsuccessfully assaulted by the Athenian expedition under Pericles.
On arriving at Epidaurus, in the Peloponnese, they ravaged the greater part of the land, and having made an assault on the city, entertained some hope of taking it;
Moreover, when three thousand of the Elean heavy-armed had come after the battle to the succour of the Mantineans, and a thousand Athenians in addition to their former force, all these allies at once marched against Epidaurus, while the Lacedaemonians were keeping the Carnea;
The Argives therefore prepared to invade Epidaurus by themselves, in order to exact the offering.
The Histories
The city ruled by Procles, later attacked and captured by Periander.
and he took Epidaurus, captured Procles, and imprisoned him.
Their mother's father, Procles, the sovereign of
Now at this time, as before it, the Aeginetans were in all matters still subject to the Epidaurians and even crossed to Epidaurus for the hearing of their own private lawsuits.
Hellenica
The territory of Epidaurus, ravaged by the Theban coalition and later the site of an Argive blockade broken by the Arcadians.
they also made an expedition to Epidaurus, and laid waste the whole territory of the Epidaurians.
for when the Argives had invaded the country of Epidaurus and their way out had been barred by the mercenaries under Chabrias, and by the Athenians, and the Corinthians, they went to the rescue and released the Argives from an absolute blockade, although they had not only the enemy’s troops but also the character of the country to contend with.
Memorabilia
Place whose water is invoked in a comparison about warmth for drinking.
Which is the warmer to drink, the water in your house or Epidaurus water?
Epidaurus water.