place
Gytheum
also: Gytheum, Gytheium
The chief port of Sparta on the Laconian Gulf. Cicero cites Themistocles' secret plan to burn the Spartan fleet beached there as a useful but dishonourable scheme rejected by Athens.
place
also: Gytheum, Gytheium
The chief port of Sparta on the Laconian Gulf. Cicero cites Themistocles' secret plan to burn the Spartan fleet beached there as a useful but dishonourable scheme rejected by Athens.