Charles Hannord Skalet epub Sicyon, an Archaeological and Historical Study With a Prosopographia Sicyonia (Classic Reprint)

Situation and Topography. Sect. 1. Situation Sicyon was the chief city of Sicyonia, the territory which adjoined that of Corinth on the west. Between the two cities, and contiguous with the coast of the Gulf of Corinth and the hills running parallel to it on the south, lies a fertile and famous coastal plain, intersected at several points by streams which cross it in deeply worn teds and flow parallel to each other to the Corinthian Gulf on the north. Of these parallel rivers crossing the coastal plain, the most v;esterly, the largest, and the most important is the 1A sopus. Rising some miles back from springs in the declivities of Mount 2C arneates, a part of the high Mount Celossa, it flows at first a calm and quiet rivulet in a grassy bed across an inland plain surrounded by lofty mountains. This was the district of Phliasia. Leaving this level expanse it encounters a high conglomerate plateau which rises to its greatest height with Mount Spiria. Through the plateau it cuts a narrow glen in which its waters rush lader with argillaceous soil washed down from the steep sides of the mountains above and finally, issuing from its deep narrow glen, flows through 3a gorge in the tableland and across the coastal plain of Asopia to the Corinthian Gulf. This lower valley of the Asopus was the principal part of the district of Sicyonia. 1) The present Hagios Georgios. 2) Str. VIII, 362; Eust. on II. II, 572. Celossa is the modern Tegalo-V ouno and Carneates the modern Polyphengo. cf. Curtius, Felop. II, p.468; Eursian, Geog. II, p.32, 3) StrPS cM, 408; Paus. II, 1, 1; Eust. I.e. Asopia is the modern Vocha. cf. Philippson, Der Peloponnes,(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books'