Iasus (Laconia)

Iasus or Iasos (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) was a town in ancient Laconia, which Pausanias describes as belonging to the Achaeans.^[1]^[2] William Smith conjectures that Iasus may be the same as Oeum;^[3] the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World conjecture that it may be the same as Caryae.^[4]

Its site is dependent on which, if either, of the conjectures is correct.

References[]

^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 7.13.7.
^ Suda s. v. Ἴασος.
^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oeum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.

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