Pausanias: Beskrivelse av Hellas, 3.10.7. Sitat: «For Caryae is a region sacred to Artemis and the nymphs, and here stands in the open an image of Artemis Caryatis. Here every year the Lacedaemonian maidens hold chorus-dances, and they have a traditional native dance.»
Smith, William (1854): «Limnae» i: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Sitat: «An outrage offered by the Messenians to some Lacedaemonian virgins at the festival of this goddess is said to have been the cause of the First Messenian War.»
