Pitane (Laconia)
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Pitane (Laconia)
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Pitane, or Pitana (Πιτάνα), was a settlement that existed before the Dorian conquest. It was united with three other such settlements by a common sacrifice to Artemis, and eventually coalesced into ancient Sparta. Pitane is called a polis by Euripides, and is also mentioned as a place by Pindar. Herodotus, who had been there, calls it a deme. He also mentions a λόχος Πιτανάτης; and Caracalla, in imitation of antiquity, composed a λόχος Πιτανάτης of Spartans. Thucydides claims that the "λόχος Πιτ
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