Bathos (Arcadia)

Bathos (Ancient Greek: Βάθος) was a town of ancient Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, between Trapezus and Basilis. Near to a neighbouring fountain called Olympias, fire was seen to issue from the ground.[1]

Its site is located between the modern Mavria and Kyparissia.[2][3]

References
  1. Pausanias (1918). "29.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. 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.
  3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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

37°27′04″N 22°03′36″E


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