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
  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 7.13.7.
  2. Suda s. v. Ἴασος.
  3.  Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oeum". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  4. 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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