Asine
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thumb|Ruins of Asine.|242x242px thumb|Swedish and visiting archaeologists, 1922.|242x242px Asine (; ) is a Greek city on the coast of ancient Argolis. Homer mentions it in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as one of the places subject to Diomedes, king of Argos. It is said to have been founded by the Dryopes, who originally dwelt on Mount Parnassus. In one of the early wars (740 BCE) between the Lacedaemonians and the Argives, the Asinaeans joined the former when they invaded the Argive territory under their king Nicander; but as soon as the Lacedaemonians returned home, the Argives lai
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Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού | Ασίνη
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thumb|Ruins of Asine.|242x242px thumb|Swedish and visiting archaeologists, 1922.|242x242px Asine (; ) is a Greek city on the coast of ancient Argolis. Homer mentions it in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as one of the places subject to Diomedes, king of Argos. It is said to have been founded by the Dryopes, who originally dwelt on Mount Parnassus. In one of the early wars (740 BCE) between the Lacedaemonians and the Argives, the Asinaeans joined the former when they invaded the Argive territory under their king Nicander; but as soon as the Lacedaemonians returned home, the Argives laid siege to Asine and razed it to the ground, sparing only the sanctuary of Pythaëus Apollo. The Asinaeans escaped by sea; and the Lacedaemonians gave to them, after the end of the First Messenian War, a portion of the Messenian territory, where they built a new town (also named Asine). Nearly ten centuries after the destruction of the city its ruins were visited by Pausanias, who found the sanctuary of Apollo still visible.
It is located near the modern Tolon.
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