Sanctuary of Hyernetho

Dates

unspecified

Garden Description

According to local legend, the Argive maiden, Hyrnetho, died in an ancestral struggle and was buried on this site (Pausanias, 2.28.6-7). The sanctuary lay in the midst of a grove of wild olive trees. Established law, even in Roman times, forbade anyone to remove broken branches of these olives or any other trees in the grove.

Keywords

• literary gardens
• orchardsAAT:300008890
• Pausanias
• wild olives (Olea oleaster)

Places

• Epidauros Pleiades: 570228

Explore the places containing this garden:

• Epidauros
• Achaea