The Issorium or Issorion (Ἰσσώριον; Issṓrion), or Mount Issorion, was a hill on the northern city border of Sparta, possibly the heights known today as Klaraki. On it was a sanctuary and temple to the goddess Artemis, in which context the goddess was surnamed Artemis Issoria. (Or, from the nearby Laconian town of Pitane, Artemis Pitanata; or Artemis Limnaea.)
During the Theban–Spartan War, circa 370 BC, the Issorium was seized by a group of Spartan mutineers; Agesilaus II broke up the conspiracy and had fifteen of the mutineers put to death.
References
- ^ William Martin Leake (1830). Travels in the Morea. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 177.
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Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Issoria". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The entry cites Paus. iii.14 §2.25 and §3; Hesych. s. v.; Steph. Byz. s. v.; Plut. Ages. 32; Polyaen. ii.14.
- Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Pitanatis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The entry cites Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 172; Paus. iii.16 §9; Eurip. Troad. 1101.
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Agesilaus" 32 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).
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