Cardamyle

Cardamyle, also called Kardamyle, was a town of ancient Messenia mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven towns Agamemnon offered to Achilles. It stood on a strong rocky height seven stadia from the sea and sixty stadia from Leuctra. Herodotus calls it a Laconian town, reflecting the inclusion of Messenia within Laconian territory at the time he wrote, but it returned to Messenia when that region regained its independence, before Augustus finally separated it from Messenia and annexed it to Laconia. Pausanias records sanctuaries of Athena and of Apollo Carneius at Cardamyle, along with a sacred precinct of the Nereids nearby.