naval victory at Aegospotami in 405, to judge from Lysander’s dedication of a statue
to him at Delphi, according to Pausanias (10.9.7).
Aphrodite too was present, in a distinctively military guise, both in Sparta and on
the periphery (for Aphrodite at Sparta see Osanna 1990). She was endowed with a
naos, sanctuary, on the Spartan acropolis that containedxoana archaia, ancient
effigies (Pausanias 3.17.5), and here she had the epithet Areia. She also had, again
in Sparta, anaos archaios, an ancient sanctuary, and this too contained axoanonthat
represented the goddess in arms (3.15.10). The upper story of the temple was
dedicated to the goddess under the name of Morpho; Pausanias himself stresses
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Figure 15.3 The most important Lacedaemonian sanctuaries outside Sparta. 1 Karyai
(sanctuary of Artemis); 2 Mount Thornax (statue of Pythian Apollo); 3 Sanctuary of Zeus
Messapeus; 4 Menelaion (sanctuary of Helen and Menelaus); 5 Amyklaion (sanctuary of
Amyclaean Apollo and Hyacinthus); 6 Eleusinion (sanctuary of Demeter and Kore); 7 Hyper-
teleaton (sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas; center for the Eleutherolakonian League after
the liberation of the perioeci from Sparta in 195 BC); 8 Epidauros Limera (sanctuary of
Artemis); 9 Boiai (sanctuary of Artemis); 10 Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania; 11 Cape
Tainaron (sanctuary of Poseidon); 12 Thalamai (oracular sanctuary of Pasiphae); 13 Leuctra
(sanctuary of Eros); 14 Limnai (sanctuary of Artemis, sited approximately)
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