Peloponnese, Peloponnesos, the greatest island of all in Greek holy land. This big piece of land is separated from the rest of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth. It is a widespread and mainly mountainous peninsula of Southern Greece, with idyllic 'green gaps' between the mountains and plethora of running water.

The Greeks interpreted its name as Pelopos nesos, the island of the mythological Pelops, whose family, the Pelopids (including Agamemnon), was believed to have been kings of Mycenae or Argos. Homer sometimes appears to use the name of Argos to signify the whole peninsula, whereas the word "Peloponnesos" appears in the Cypria, a poem of the later Epic Cycle, and in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.

The Peloponnesian land had the honor to raise great Heroes, Kings and Semi-Gods as well as Gods and Goddesses. Even Theseus, the king of Athens, lover of Adrian, rival of Minotaurus –High King of Knossous–, defeater of Amazons and husband of their Quinn, Ippolity. The Olympic festivities, in honor of Zeus and Hera, established be Hercules, had their base at Olympia, a land truly blessed of beauty and celestial power.

Visit Argos, Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, Sparta, the leading City-State of Peloponnesos, or Corinth, one of the greatest naval powers.

The principal divisions of the territory were Achaea, Elis, Arcadia, the Argolid, Messenia, and Laconia; the capital of Laconia, Sparta, was the strongest town in the peninsula, so that its historic war against Athens, narrated by Thucydides, was known as the Peloponnesian War. (In the later Middle Ages the Peloponnese was called Morea, the Greek word mulberry, originally applied to mulberry-growing Elis).