Mases

Mases (Ancient Greek: Μάσης, ἡ Μάσητος^[1]) was a city in the district Hermionis, on the Argolic peninsula, in ancient Argolis.^[2] It is mentioned by Homer as part of Diomedes's kingdom in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, along with Aegina.^[3] In the time of Pausanias, it was used as a harbour by Hermione.^[4]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Koilada,^[5]^[6] northeast of Kranidi.

References

^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p.376. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.562.
^ Pausanias (1918). "36.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 2. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mases". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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