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IIONES (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Eion (Eiones). A town in the Argolic peninsula, mentioned by Homer along
with Troezen and Epidaurus. It is said to have been one of the towns founded by
the Dryopes, when they were expelled from their seats in Northern Greece by Hercules.
Strabo relates that the Mycenacans expelled the inhabitants of Eiones, and made
it their sea-port, but that it had entirely disappeared in his time. Its position
is uncertain; but, in consequence of the preceding statement of Strabo, it is
placed by Curtius in the plain of Kandia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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