Alagonia

Alagonia (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀλαγονία) was a town of Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia, but its site is unknown,Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 21. § 6-7, iii. 26. § 8-11] although it may be synonymous with the modern district within Kalamata, in the prefecture of Messenia.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Alagonia | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography | volume = 1 | pages = 82-83 | publisher = Walton & Maberly | place = London | year = 1857 | contribution-url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_sYPAAAAYAAJ]

The city was named after the mythological Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa. [Nat. Com. viii. 23] Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Alagonia | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 88 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0097.html ]

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