Cardamyle

{{Short description|Town of ancient Messenia}}

{{About||the modern town|Kardamyli|the ancient town of Chios|Cardamyle (Chios)}}

Cardamyle or Kardamyle ({{langx|grc|Καρδαμύλη}}) was a town of ancient Messenia. It is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven places offered by Agamemnon to Achilles.{{Cite Iliad|9.150, 9.292}} It was situated on a strong rocky height at the distance of seven stadia from the sea, and sixty from Leuctra.{{Cite Pausanias|3|26|7}}{{Cite Strabo|viii. p.360, et seq.}} It is called a Laconian town by Herodotus, since the whole of Messenia was included in the territories of Laconia at the time of the historian.{{Cite Herodotus|8.73}} It again became a town of Messenia on the restoration of the independence of the latter; but it was finally separated from Messenia by Augustus, and annexed to Laconia. Pausanias mentions at Cardamyle sanctuaries of Athena and of Apollo Carneius; and in the neighbourhood of the town a temenos of the Nereids.{{Cite Pliny|4.5.8}}{{Cite Ptolemy|3.16.22}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}}

Its site is located northeast the modern Kardamyli, at the distance of {{convert|1300|m}} from the sea, where there are considerable ruins of the town.{{Cite Barrington|58}}{{Cite DARE|28512}}