Alagonia () was a town of ancient Laconia, ancient Greece, near the Messenian frontier, belonging to the Eleuthero-Lacones, containing temples of the Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis. This town was 30 stadia distant from Gerenia.Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 21. § 6-7, iii. 26. § 8-11
It took its name from Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Alagonia
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Anatoliko.
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