Caenepolis

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Caenepolis, also called Kainepolis (meaning "new town"), was an ancient Greek town in Laconia on the Mani Peninsula, north of Cape Matapan. It is thought to be the same town Strabo called Kinaidion (Cinaedium). The town had a temple to Demeter and another to Aphrodite near the sea. The modern village of Kyparissos stands on its site. Remains and inscriptions from the Antonine period and later have been found there. On the doorposts of a small ruined church are two inscribed square slabs (stelai): one a decree of the Taenarians, the other from the community of the Eleuthero-Lacones (the Free Laconians). Pausanias records Caenepolis as one of the Eleuthero-Laconian cities. The inscriptions suggest that after the Laconians freed themselves from Spartan rule, they formed a federation and made Caenepolis their capital near the Poseidon sanctuary, calling it the New Town. It was probably a successor to Taenarum.