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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'). Ancient authors identify its location with the later Methone.

References

  1. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 9.294.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.359. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  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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