Carystus or Karystos () was a town in ancient Laconia, in the district Aegytis, near the frontiers of Laconia. Its wine was celebrated by the poet Alcman.Athen. 1.31d William Martin Leake, a 19th-century explorer and classicist, supposed that Carystus stood at the site known as "Huts of Giorgitzes" (Καλύβια Γιωργίτζη),William Martin Leake, Peloponnesiaca, pp. 350, 366. but modern scholars treat its site as unlocated.
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