Carnasium
id:
carnasium-195-15816318
title:
Carnasium
text:
Carnasium or Karnasion was a town of ancient Messenia, 8 stadia distant from Andania, and upon the river Charadrus. Pausanias identified it with Oechalia. In his time, Carnasium was the name given to a grove of cypresses, in which were statues of Apollo Carneius, of Hermes Criophorus, and of Persephone. It was here that the mystic rites of the great goddesses were celebrated, and that the urn was preserved containing the bones of Eurytus, the son of Melaneus. Its site is located near the modern
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnasium
date created:
date modified:
2023-11-23T03:00:49Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q28000806","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28000806"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
13