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94 NAUPLIA TO PORT TOLONE.
On this hill are the ruins of the walls of an ancient castle or town,
not well built, and on the top are traces of the citadel. These ruins
have nothing in themselves worthy the attention of a traveller.
D'Anville places a city called Prosjrmna in this spot, but that is
evidently an error, for Prosymna was the mountain above the
Heraeum, 15 stadia from Mycenae. See Strabo speaking of Mycenae,
and the passage which misled D'Anville in that author's account of
the neighbourhood of Nauplia. D'Anville has not placed Eione in
his map, but Strabo says it was a sea-port possessed by the Myce-
naeans. The geographer of Anacharsis places Eione near Troezen,
probably because it is mentioned by Homer in the same line with that
city and Epidaurus. Tolone, however, would have been a very conve-
nient port for Mycenae, and any place more distant than Troezen roust
have been useless to the Mycenaeans.
Near this, on a rock jutting into the sea, is a ruined monastery.
The view from the ruined citadel is very extensive. On the left be-
low, lies a plain, in which is a large garden with trees. The shore is
sandy, and stretches toward a port now called Drepano, which seems
formed by a long projecting rock of a curved figure, from which the
name is probably derived. D'Anville places a town called Phlius at
the eastern entrance of this port. The entrance of the port of Vivares,
supposed to be Asine, is also seen from this spot.
Beyond Vivares is seen a. deep bay with a sandy shore, the territory
of the ancient town of Asine. Beyond this, the promontory of
On this hill are the ruins of the walls of an ancient castle or town,
not well built, and on the top are traces of the citadel. These ruins
have nothing in themselves worthy the attention of a traveller.
D'Anville places a city called Prosjrmna in this spot, but that is
evidently an error, for Prosymna was the mountain above the
Heraeum, 15 stadia from Mycenae. See Strabo speaking of Mycenae,
and the passage which misled D'Anville in that author's account of
the neighbourhood of Nauplia. D'Anville has not placed Eione in
his map, but Strabo says it was a sea-port possessed by the Myce-
naeans. The geographer of Anacharsis places Eione near Troezen,
probably because it is mentioned by Homer in the same line with that
city and Epidaurus. Tolone, however, would have been a very conve-
nient port for Mycenae, and any place more distant than Troezen roust
have been useless to the Mycenaeans.
Near this, on a rock jutting into the sea, is a ruined monastery.
The view from the ruined citadel is very extensive. On the left be-
low, lies a plain, in which is a large garden with trees. The shore is
sandy, and stretches toward a port now called Drepano, which seems
formed by a long projecting rock of a curved figure, from which the
name is probably derived. D'Anville places a town called Phlius at
the eastern entrance of this port. The entrance of the port of Vivares,
supposed to be Asine, is also seen from this spot.
Beyond Vivares is seen a. deep bay with a sandy shore, the territory
of the ancient town of Asine. Beyond this, the promontory of