Kyllene

At Kyllene, a port on the Elis coast there was a statue of Asklepios by Kolotes made in ivory. Many towns on the Peloponnesos were once individual villages that had become amalgamated into cities. On the north coast of Elis there is a sickle-shaped promontory called Drepanium and the word drepanus means sickle. There was a prehistoric armour-plated fish called drepanaspis and its head was sickle-shaped. Amathus river was sandy and the word amathus means sandy. The gulfs or Sinus around the Peloponnesos are going anti-clockwise,  the Corinthian Messenic Laconic Argolic Hermionic and Saronic. "There is a pylos in front of pylos, and even another pylos". It seems the Argolian gulf is made up partly by the smaller hermionic gulf.
   The Persians supposedly exhumed King Amasis's corpse and flogged it and beat it and prodded it with gourds and committed all manner of atrocious acts upon it until it was rotten and they burnt it but someone pointed out that it wasn't actually Amasis! They obviously dug up the wrong bloke.
   The Persian King Xerxes built a pontoon bridge over the Hellespont, he installed high fences on either side so that the horses wouldn't be alarmed by seeing the raging torrents below while they trotted across it.
   The Greeks admired revenge. Pericles came home from a party one night escorted by his slave with a torch, and was tailed by a bloke who hurled much abuse and insults at him all the way. Pericles took no notice, but on reaching his own house he turned to his slave, winked and said "Archie, see this fellow safely home".
   Chersonesos. Dyme. Peneius river and alpheius river. There was a stinking misty lagoon located near where the Alpheius flows into the Tyrrhenian sea where all the fish are inedible and Homer said it was where the Centaurs washed off the poison from the bites inflicted by the Hydra and later the area was well known to be a cure for leprosy leuke leichine and other skin diseases. The big mountain Homer called the onelian rock is called scullios. Arene, lovely Arene, it was there but where? Ainos. Triphylians lived in the southern region of Elis and the central part near Alpheius is the Pisatis.   
 
   Arcadia is in the middle of the Peloponnesos and is associated with idyllic rural beauty and good living very often depicted in the paintings of Poussin and Claude and other classicist masters as well as more modern day classicists such as Richard Wilson and Thomas Jones. It is said that the valleys of Arcadia and most of Hellas were far more lush and verdant 2000 years ago than it is now because of over farming and climate change. Or maybe it was the same except the artists and poets beautified it more than it actually was. Who really knows.
   Sparta is situated in central Laconia and they taught the kids both male and female how to fight from a very early age much like lions. In fact lions roamed Greece two millenia ago. One of Herakles first Labours was to slay the Nemean lion and afterwards he always wore it's head. The word Nemo is Greek and could be related to Neme. Spartans were the best warriors in Greece. They lived close to the Lacedaimonians and were pretty much the same people.