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395: 66:. The upper valley of the Aroanius consists of two plains, of which the more easterly is the one through which the Aroanius flows, the waters of which force their way through a gorge in the mountains into the plain of Cleitor to the south. The more westerly plain is entirely shut in by a range of hills; and the waters of three streams which flow into this plain are carried off by a katavothra (underground channel), after forming an inundation, apparently the 319: 120:, who cured them by sacred expiations. Thereupon their father Proetus founded this temple of Artemis Hemerasia, which was regarded with great reverence throughout the whole Peloponnesus as an inviolable asylum. It was plundered by the Aetolians in the Social War. It was situated near Lusi, at the distance of 40 143:. The temple of Artemis and several buildings of the public centre of the town have been found. In 1928 the nearby villages Soudena Theotokou and Soudena Agiou Vasileiou were renamed 480: 436: 455: 356: 140: 485: 490: 333: 475: 429: 128:. The interior of the temple, with the purification of the daughters of Proetus, is represented on an ancient vase. By the first century BC 347: 422: 108:(2nd century), there were no longer even any ruins of the town. Its name, however, was preserved in consequence of its temple of 460: 328: 101: 116:
were purified from their madness. They had concealed themselves in a large cavern, from which they were taken by
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or Hemerasia (the "Soother"). The goddess was so called, because it was here that the daughters of
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The remains of Lusi have been found in 1897 by the archeologists
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Index

Lusi, Greece
Ancient Greek
Arcadian Azania
ancient Arcadia
Cleitor
Aroanius
Aroanian
Kalavryta
Lacus Clitorius
Pliny the Elder
Olympiad
Agesilas
Pythiad
Aetolians
Social War
Pausanias
Artemis Lusia
Proetus
Melampus
stadia
Cynaetha
staphanitic games
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens
Ano Lousoi
Kato Lousoi


Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut
Pliny

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