# Genesium

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{{Short description|Ancient town in Argolis, Greece}}
'''Genesium''' or '''Genesion''' ({{langx|grc|Γενέσιον}}) or '''Genese''' (Γενέση)<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> was a town of [ancient Argolis](/source/ancient_Argolis) upon the [Argolic Gulf](/source/Argolic_Gulf), south of [Lerna](/source/Lerna), and north of the mountain pass, called [Anigraea](/source/Anigraea_(pass)), leading into the [Thyreatis](/source/Thyreatis).<ref name=Pausanias>{{Cite Pausanias|2|38|4}}</ref> [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) also calls the place '''Genethlium''' or '''Genethlion''' (Γενέθλιον), and says less correctly that near it was the spring of fresh water rising in the sea, called [Dine](/source/Dine_(spring)); whereas this spring of fresh water is to the south of the Anigraea.<ref>{{Cite Pausanias|8|7|2}}</ref>  By the sea is a small sanctuary of Poseidon Genesius (Γενεσίου Ποσειδῶνος).<ref name=Pausanias/> [Apobathmi](/source/Apobathmi) was next to Genesium.<ref name=Pausanias/>

The surrounding country was called '''Pyramia''' (Πυράμια), from the monuments in the form of pyramids found here.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.%20Pyrrh.%2032&lang=original Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 32]</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D11%3Aentry%3Dapobathmi-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Apobathmi]</ref>

Its site is located near the modern [Kiveri](/source/Kiveri).<ref>{{Cite DARE|27434}}</ref><ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=58}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in ancient Argolis
Category:Former populated places in Greece

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