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Geronthrae

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Geronthrae, also recorded as Geronthrai, Geranthrae or Gerenthrae, was a town of ancient Laconia in Greece, situated in a commanding position on the southwestern face of a mountain above the plain of the Eurotas river. The traveler Pausanias recorded that the town held a temple and sacred grove of the god Ares, where a yearly festival excluding women was celebrated, and that fountains of drinking water surrounded its agora while a temple of Apollo stood on its acropolis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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