Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

LERNA TO HERM^B AND MOUNT PARNON. 85

Chap, 25. For Tiryns see the route from Mycenae to Nauplia. The
modern route is best seen from the top of the citadel of Argog, con-
sulting the plate, by which it will be seen that the bed of the Inachus
is passed in the way.

LERNA TO HERMES AND MOUNT PARNON.

This is the direct road to Sparta. Pausanias says, " there is
another road by the sea from Lerna, beside that which goes to Nau-
plia, which leads to a village called Genesium, where is a temple of
Neptune Genesios." Near this is another village named Apobathmos,
where Danaus landed. Proceeding, thence, after passing Anigrea,
which is a narrow and difficult road, a tract extends on the left by the
sea, abounding in olives and other trees, Ascending from the shore
to the interior of the country, the town of Thyrea is seen, which was
a border town of the Argives and Lacedaemonians. Here are the
tumuli of the Argives and Spartans who fell fighting for the posses-
sion of the country. From the tumuli called Polyandria, you come
to a place called Athena, and another village called Neris, with a
third called Eua, the largest of these villages. In it is the temple of
Polemocrates.

Above this village is a mountain which is the boundary of the La-
cedaemonians, Argives, and Tegeans. On the confines are Termes of
stone, whence the place is called Hermse. Hence the river Tanus