Tainaron (settlement)

settlement · 750 BC – 300 AD

A famous ancient sanctuary of Poseidon located at the southern end of the modern Mani peninsula of the Peloponnese. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that the sanctuary featured a temple, a cave treated as a mouth of the underworld, and other structural and monumental components. It seems to have served as a sanctuary site for suppliants and a context for the formal manumission of enslaved persons.

Tainaron (settlement)
Coordinates
36.40136, 22.48650
Also known as
Taenarum (la), Taenarum (la), Tainaron
Dating
attested

Sources

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