Eva (Cynuria)

Eva (Ancient Greek: Εὔα) or Eua (Εὖα) was a village of Cynuria, located inland not far from Neris.[1] Pausanias, who visited the region in the 2nd century, on leaving Thyrea, came first to Anthene, next to Neris, and lastly to Eva, which he describes as the largest of the three villages, containing a sanctuary of Polemocrates, son of Machaon, who was honoured here as a god or hero of the healing art. Above these villages was the range of Mount Parnon, where, not far from the sources of the Tanus or Tanaus, the boundaries of the Lacedaemonians, Argives, and Tegeatae joined, and were marked by stone Hermae. This Eva is probably also meant by Stephanus of Byzantium, though he calls it a city of Arcadia.[2]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Helleniko.[3][4]

References

1. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 2.38.5. , et seq.
2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cynuria". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.