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EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Astyocheia, mother of Tlepolemus, came from Ephyre (Il. 2.659) where Odysseus went in search of a poison for his arrows (Od. 1.259).
FIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
A town of Elis situated on the shore of the Iardanus river and near the Pisatis border (Il. 7.135, Od. 15.297).
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
He was the son of Agasthenes, grandson of Augeias and the fourth leader of the Elean ships sent against Troy (Il. 2.623). He was the father of Amphimachus II, whom Polexenus, after his return from Troy, named after Amphimachus I, son of Cteatus, who was killed in Troy (Paus. 5,3,4).
ALISSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Alesium participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.617).
MYRSINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Myrsinus participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.616).
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Hyrmine participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.616).
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Mulius was married to the daughter of Augeias, Agamede, who knew all the medicinal herbs (Il. 11,737).
Agamede was the mother of Velus, Actor and Dictyus by Poseidon.
Agamede. A daughter of Augeias and wife of Mulius, who, according to Homer (Il. xi. 739), was acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth. Hyginus (Fab. 157) makes her the mother of Belus, Actor, and Dictys, by Poseidon.
Admetus, son of Augeias (Paus. 10.25.5)
Ilus, a son of Mermerus, and grandson of Jason and Medeia. He lived at Ephyra, between Elis and Olympia; and when Odysseus came to him to fetch the poison for his arrows, Ilus refused it, from fear of the vengeance of the Gods. (Hom. Od. i. 259, ii. 328; Eustath. ad Hom.; Strab. viii.)
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
He was the son of Pelops by Hegesandra, and father of Iphiloche (Od. 4.10).
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Cteatus and Eurytus were called Moliones and Actoriones because they were the sons of Molione and Actor (Od. 11.709 & 750). They were slain by Heracles, because they were rivals in the war against Augeas (Paus. 2,15,1).
Molionidae, (Molionidai) and Moliones. Eurytus and Cteatus, the sons of Actor (whence they were also called Actoridae), or else of Poseidon and Molione. (Homer [ Il.xi. 750] calls them by the dual and double name Actorione Molione.) As boys they fought against Nestor and the men of Pylos. When they had grown up, they defeated the army of Heracles that threatened their uncle Augeas, but were killed by the former near Cleonae in Argolis. In Homer their sons Thalpius and Antimachus are the chieftains of the Epeians before Troy. A later legend describes them as having only one body but two heads.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Molionides : Perseus Encyclopedia
He was the son of Actor or Poseidon by Molione, brother of Cteatus (Il. 2.621), with whom he undertook an expedition against the Pylians and Nestor in order to help Augeas (Il. 11.709).
Eurytus, a son of Actor and Molione of Elis. (Hom. Il. ii. 621; Apollod. ii 7.2; Paus. ii. 15.1; Eurip. Iph. Aul. 270).
He was the son of Actor or Poseidon by Molione, brother of Eurytus, with whom he undertook an expedition against the Pylians and Nestor as help to Augeas (Il. 2.621, 11.709).
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EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
She was the daughter of Phylas and mother of Tlepolemus, who led the Rhodians against Troy (Il. 2.658).
He was the father of Agasthenes, Phyleus and Agamede (Il. 11.701), and son of Eleius or Helius. He was known for his stables, which Heracles cleansed (Paus. 5,1,9). He also held the Olympian games (Paus. 5,8,3).
Augeas or Augeias. Son of Helios, or, according to another account, of Phorbas, and Hermione. He was king of the Epeians in Elis, and one of the Argonauts. Besides his other possessions, for which Agamemnon and Trophonius built him a treasure-house, he was owner of an enormous flock of sheep and oxen, among which were twelve white bulls consecrated to the Sun. When Heracles, at the command of Eurystheus, came to cleanse his farm-yard, Augeas promised him the tenth part of his flock. But, the task completed, he refused the reward, on the ground that the work had been done in the service of Eurystheus. Heracles replied by sending an army against him,which was defeated in the passes of Elis by Eurytus and Cteatus, sons of Molione; but Heracles appeared on the scene, and slew the Molionidae, and with them their uncle Augeas and his sons.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Augeas or Augeias, a son of Phorbas and Hermione, and king of the Epeians in Elis. According to some accounts he was a son of Eleios or Helios or Poseidon (Paus. v. 1.7; Apollod. ii. 5.5; Schol. ad Apollon. i. 172). His mother, too, is not the same in all traditions, for some call her Iphinoe or Naupidame (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 41; Hygin. Fab. 14). He is mentioned among the Argonauts, but he is more celebrated in ancient story on account of his connexion with Heracles, one of whose labours, imposed upon him by Eurystheus, was to clear in one day the stables of Augeas, who kept in them a large number of oxen. Heracles was to have the tenth part of the oxen as his reward, but when the hero had accomplished his task by leading the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stables, Augeas refused to keep his promise. Heracles, therefore, made war upon him, which terminated in his death and that of his sons, with the exception of one, Phyleus, whom Heracles placed on the throne of his father (Apolod. l. c.; ii. 7.2; Diod. iv. 13, 33; Theocrit. Idyll. 25). Another tradition preserved in Pausanias (v. 3.4, 4.1) represents Augeas as dying a natural death at an advanced age, and as receiving heroic honours from Oxyl.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Agasthenes, son of Augeas and father of Polyxenus (Il. 2.624), became king of Elis after the death of his father and reigned along with Amphimachus and Thalpius, grandsons of Actor, and perhaps with Amarynceus (Paus. 5,3,3-4).
He was the king of Ephyra, which was located near the Seleis river
"This Phyleus had brought from out of Ephyre, from the river Seleis. For a guest-friend of his, the king of men Euphetes, had given it him that he might wear it in war, a defence against foe-men; and this now warded death from the body of his son." (Il. 15.532).
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PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
A son of Tantalus, who came from Phrygia. In Elis, after his victory in a horse race, he got married to Hippodameia, the daughter of Oenomaus, and became king (Il. 2.104).
Pelops came from Asia and succeeded Oenomaus to the kingdom. After the death of the latter, he also took possesion of Olympia. The Eleans said that he was the first to found a temple of Hermes in Peloponnese (Paus. 5,1,7). He also held the most brilliant Olympian games, when compared with all previous ones (Paus. 5,8,2) and the Eleans honoured him as their favourite hero (Paus. 5,13,1).
(Pelops, "Black-face"). A grandson of Zeus and son
of Tantalus and Dione, the daughter of Atlas. Some writers call his mother Euryanassa
or Clytia. He was married to Hippodamia, by whom he became the father of Atreus,
Thyestes, Dias, Cynosurus, Corinthius, Hippalmus (Hippalcmus or Hippalcimus),
Hippasus, Cleon, Argius, Alcathous, Aelius, Pittheus, Troezen, Nicippe, and Lysidice,
known collectively as the Pelopidae. By Axioche or the nymph Danais he is said
to have been the father of Chrysippus. Pelops was king of Pisa in Elis, and from
him the great southern peninsula of Greece was believed to have derived its name
Peloponnesus. According to a tradition which became very general in later times,
Pelops was a Phrygian, who was expelled by Ilus from Phrygia (Ovid, Met.viii.
622), and thereupon migrated with his great wealth to Pisa. Others describe him
as a Paphlagonian, and call the Paphlagonians themselves Pelopeioi. Others again
represent him as a native of Greece; and there can be little doubt that in the
earliest traditions Pelops was described as a native of Greece and not as a foreign
immigrant; in them, also, he is called the tamer of horses and the favourite of
Poseidon. The legends about Pelops consist mainly of (a) the story of his being
cut to pieces and boiled; (b) of his contest with Oenomaus and Hippodamia; and
(c) of his relation to his sons, to which may be added the honours paid to his
remains.
(a) The first tells how Tantalus, the favourite of the gods,
once invited them to a repast, and on that occasion killed his own son, and having
boiled him set the flesh before them that they might eat it. But the immortal
gods, knowing what it was, did not touch it; Demeter alone, being absorbed by
grief for her lost daughter, consumed the shoulder of Pelops. Hereupon the gods
ordered Hermes to put the limbs of Pelops into a caldron, and thereby restore
him to life. When the process was over, Clotho took him out of the caldron, and
as the shoulder consumed by Demeter was wanting, the goddess supplied its place
by one made of ivory; his descendants (the Pelopidae), as a mark of their origin,
were believed to have one shoulder as white as ivory.
(b) As an oracle had declared to Oenomaus that he should be
killed by his son-in-law, he refused giving his daughter Hippodamia in marriage
to any one. But since many suitors appeared, Oenomaus declared that he would bestow
her hand upon the man who should conquer him in the chariot-race, but that he
should kill all who were defeated by him. Among other suitors Pelops also presented
himself; but when he saw the heads of his conquered predecessors stuck up above
the door of Oenomaus he was seized with fear, and endeavoured to gain the favour
of Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaus, promising him half the kingdom if he
would assist him in conquering his master. Myrtilus agreed, and drew out the linchpins
of the chariot of Oenomaus. In the race the chariot of Oenomaus broke down, and
he was thrown out and killed. Thus Hippodamia became the wife of Pelops. But as
Pelops had now gained his object, he was unwilling to keep faith with Myrtilus;
and accordingly, as they were driving along a cliff, he threw Myrtilus into the
sea. As Myrtilus sank he cursed Pelops and his whole race. Pelops returned with
Hippodamia to Pisa in Elis, and soon also made himself master of Olympia, where
he restored the Olympian Games with greater splendour than they had ever been
celebrated before.
(c) Chrysippus was the favourite of his father, and was, in
consequence, envied by his brothers. The eldest two among them, Atreus and Thyestes,
with the connivance of Hippodamia, accordingly murdered Chrysippus, and threw
his body into a well. Pelops, who suspected his sons of the murder, expelled them
from the country. Hippodamia, dreading the anger of her husband, fled to Midea
in Argolis, whence her remains were afterwards conveyed by Pelops to Olympia.
Pelops, after his death, was honoured at Olympia above all
other heroes. His tomb, with an iron sarcophagus, existed on the banks of the
Alpheus, not far from the temple of Artemis, near Pisa. The spot on which his
sanctuary (Pelopion) stood in the Altis was said to have been dedicated by Heracles,
who also offered to him the first sacrifices. The magistrates of the Eleans likewise
offered to him there an annual sacrifice, consisting of a black ram, with special
ceremonies. The name of Pelops was so celebrated that it was constantly used by
the poets in connection with his descendants and the cities they inhabited. Hence
we find Atreus, the son of Pelops, called Pelopeius Atreus, and Agamemnon, the
grandson or great-grandson of Atreus, called Pelopeius Agamemnon. In the same
way Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, and Hermione, the wife of Menelaus,
are each called by Ovid Pelopeia virgo. Vergil ( Aen.ii. 193) uses the phrase
Pelopea moenia to signify the cities in Peloponnesus which Pelops and his descendants
ruled over; and in like manner Mycenae is called by Ovid Pelopeiades Mycenae.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Actor was the son of Phorbas, brother of Augeas, husband of Molione and father of Cteatus and Eurytus (Il. 23.638). He was murdered by Herakles. He founded the city of Hyrmina in the honour of his mother (Paus. 5,1,11).
SKOLLIS (Mountain) ACHAIA
It is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.617 & 11.756).
ALISSION (Ancient city) ILIA
A hill or stele in the memory of Aleisius, who was, according to Demetrius of Scepsis, the son of Scillus and suitor of Hippodameia.
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
A river in Elis (Il. 2.659, 15.531).
Selleis (Selleeis). A river in Elis, on which the Homeric Ephyra stood, rising in Mount Pholoe, and falling into the sea south of the Peneus.
It is between Chelonatas and Cyllene that the River Peneius empties; as also the River Selleeis, which is mentioned by the poet (Homer) and flows out of Pholoe. On the Selleeis is situated a city Ephyra
Selleis. A river in Elis, on which the Homeric Ephyra stood, rising in Mount Pholoe, and falling into the sea south of the Peneus.
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