Map of the South Peloponnese in Antiquity. The city of Gerontras was in the interior, east of the Eurotas River.
Gerontras o Gerantras (en griego, Γερόνθραι, Γεράνθραι, Γερένθραι) es el nombre de una antigua ciudad griega de Laconia.
Pausanias mentions it among the cities of Eleutherolacones. He says that it was inhabited since before the arrival of the Heraclidas in the Peloponnese and was one of the Perieca populations dominated by the Achaeans who, along with Amiclas and Faris, were destroyed by the Lacedaemonians in Teleclo's time. It was 120 Acrias stadiums, 100 of Mario and twenty of Selinunte. On the road between Acrias and Gerontras was the village of Palea. In the city of Gerontras stood a temple and a sacred forest of Ares, in honor of which annual parties were held in which women were prohibited from entering the forest. In addition, in the acropolis there was a temple of Apollo and the ivory head of a statue of this divinity was conserved since the rest of the statue, like the old temple, had been destroyed by the fire. Pausanias also highlights the quality of the water from the fountains around the agora.
It is identified with the current population of Geraki.
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