Issorium

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The Issorium or Issorion (Ἰσσώριον; Issṓrion), or Mount Issorion, was a hill on the northern city border of Sparta, possibly the heights known today as Klaraki.{{cn|date=November 2024}} On it was a sanctuary and temple to the goddess Artemis, in which context the goddess was surnamed Artemis Issoria. (Or, from the nearby Laconian town of Pitane, Artemis Pitanata; or Artemis Limnaea.)

During the Theban–Spartan War, circa 370 BC, the Issorium was seized by a group of Spartan mutineers; Agesilaus II broke up the conspiracy and had fifteen of the mutineers put to death.{{cite Plutarch|Agesilaus|32}}

References

{{cite DGRBM|title=Issoria}} The entry cites Paus. iii.14 §2.25 and §3; Hesych. {{abbr|s. v.|sub verbo "Issoria"}}; Steph. Byz. {{abbr|s. v.|sub verbo "Issoria"}}; Plut. Ages. 32; Polyaen. ii.14.

{{cite DGRBM|title=Pitanatis}} The entry cites Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 172; Paus. iii.16 §9; Eurip. Troad. 1101.

{{cite book |author=William Martin Leake |title=Travels in the Morea |publisher=John Murray |location=London |year=1830 |volume=1 |page=177 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46932/page/n199}}

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Category:Sparta

Category:Hills of Greece

Category:Temples of Artemis