Apesas (mountain)

natural · 750 BC – 2100 AD

Mount Aphesas, now Mount Phoukas, separated the territory of Kleonai from the Corinthia. It is connected with the myth of the Nemean lion and was the site of an ash altar sacred to Zeus in use from the Geometric period to the fourth century B.C.

Coordinates

37.86667, 22.73333

Also known as

Apesas M., Foukás (el), oros Apesas (grc), Φουκάς (el), ὄρος Ἀπέσας (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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