AMAROUSION
(Marusi) Attica, Greece.
Named for a sanctuary dedicated to the Euboian cult of
Artemis Amarysia, in the deme of Athmonon. Pausanias
(
1.1417) refers to a local legend that a Sanctuary of
Aphrodite Urania was founded there by a King Porphyrion, a name taken by Frazer to indicate a Phoenician
settlement. SW of Marusi, Lolling found two boundary
inscriptions for the Artemis Sanctuary, one archaic, the
other perhaps from a period of renovation under Herodes
Atticus. A reference to Amarysian games occurs in another inscription concerning a local township decree.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paus. 1.31.5; H. G. Lolling,
AM 5
(1880) 290; J. G. Frazer,
Paus. Des. Gr. (1898) II 413f.
M. H. MC ALLISTER