[2163] Probably the present Palæo Kastro, at the Port de Dobrena or Polaca.
[2164] Leake thinks that the Corsian Thebes, a port of Bœotia, is represented by the modern Khosia.
[2165] Helicon is a range of mountains with several summits, the loftiest of which is now called Paleovuni. Helicon was a grove of the Muses, and the fountain of Aganippe was supposed to impart poetic inspiration to those who drank of it.
[2166] See p. 288.
[2167] From Apis, the son of Phoroneus, or Telchines, according to Pausanias. After the arrival of Pelops, it took from him its name of Peloponnesus, or the “Island of Pelops.”
[2168] The Ionian from the north, and the Ægean, or rather, Myrtoan, Sea from the east.
[2169] That part of Greece proper which lies to the north of the Isthmus.
[2170] Now the Gulfs of Lepanto and Egina.
[2171] Lecheæ was the harbour of Corinth on the Corinthian, and Cenchreæ on the Saronic Gulf. The name of the latter is still preserved in the modern appellation Kechries, which is given to its ruins.
[2172] Demetrius Poliorcetes, king of Macedonia, son of Antigonus, king of Asia.