Krokeai
Città antica · Grecia
- Abbandonato
- sconosciuto
- Fondato
- —
- Popolazione
- —
- Coordinate
- 36.871, 22.560
Perché è stato abbandonato
🏛️ Rovine antiche
Rilevato automaticamente dal testo: ancient town of Lakonia
Storia
Croceae or Krokeai was a village of ancient Laconia on the road from Sparta to Gythium, and near the latter place. It was celebrated for its marble quarries. Pausanias describes the marble as difficult to work, but when wrought forming beautiful decorations for temples, baths, and fountains. There was a marble statue of Zeus Croceates before the village, and at the quarries bronze statues of the Dioscuri. The most celebrated of the Corinthian baths was adorned with marble from the quarries at Croceae. A number of blocks of green Laconian porphyry from the quarries at Croceae have been found in the Minoan palace at Knossos.
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