Listed 24 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "OLYMPIA Province ILIA" .
SAMIKON (Ancient city) ILIA
One poem entitled Rhadine (of which Stesichorus is reputed to
be the author), which begins, "Come, thou clear-voiced Muse, Erato, begin thy
song, voicing to the tune of thy lovely lyre the strain of the children of Samus,"
refers to the children of the Samus in question; for Rhadine, who had been betrothed
to a tyrant of Corinth, the author says, set sail from Samus (not meaning, of
course, the Ionian Samus) while the west wind was blowing, and with the same wind
her brother, he adds, went to Delphi as chief of an embassy; and her cousin, who
was in love with her, set out for Corinth in his chariot to visit her. And the
tyrant killed them both and sent their bodies away on a chariot, but repented,
recalled the chariot, and buried their bodies.
MAKISTOS (Ancient city) ILIA
As for Eretria, some say that it was colonized from Triphylian Macistus by Eretrieus, but others say from the Eretria at Athens, which now is a marketplace.
ALIFIRA (Ancient city) ILIA
Alipherus or Halipherus (Alipheros), one of the sons of Lycaon, killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning for their insolence. (Apollod. iii. 8. § 1.) The town of Aliphera or Alipheira in Arcadia was believed to have been founded by him, and to have derived its name from him. (Paus. viii. 3.1, 26.4; Steph. Byz. s. v. Alipheira.)
LEPREON (Ancient city) ILIA
Son of Pyrgeus, challenges Herakles to eating-match, killed by Herakles.
Leprea, a daughter of Pyrgeus, from whom the town of Lepreum, in the south of
Elis, was said to have derived its name (Paus. v. 5.4). Another tradition derived
the name from Lepreus, a son of Caucon, Glaucon, or Pyrgeus (Aelian, V. H. i.
24; Paus. v. 5.4), by Astydameia. He was a grandson of Poseidon (the Schol. ad
Callim. Hymn. in Jov. 39, calls him a son of Poseidon), and a rival of Heracles
both in his strength and his powers of eating, but he was conquered and slain
by him. His tomb was believed to exist at Phigalia. (Athen. x.; Paus. l. c.; Eustath.
ad Hom.)
ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Aphareus: Son of Perieres, king of Messenia, founds Arene, receives Tyndareus and Neleus, father of Idas and Lynceus and Pisus, his sons slain by Dioscuri and not buried at Sparta, tomb of A. at Sparta, A. and his children invoked as heroes by Messenians, their portraits. Arene: Daughter of Oebalus, half-sister and wife of Aphareus.
Aphareus, a son of the Messenian king Perieres and Gorgophone, the daughter of Perseus (Apollod. i. 9.5). His wife is called by Apollodorus (iii. 10.3) Arene, and by others Polydora or Laocoossa (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 152; Theocrit. xxii. 106). Aphareus had three sons, Lynceus, Idas, and Peisus. He was believed to have founded the town of Arene in Messenia, which he called after his wife. He received Neleus and Lycus, the son of Pandion, who had fled from their countries into his dominions. To the former he assigned a tract of land in Messenia, and from the latter he and his family learned the orgies of the great gods (Paus. iv. 2.3, &c.). Pausanias in this passage mentions only the two sons of Aphareus, Idas and Lynceus, who are celebrated in ancient story under the name of Apharetidai or Apharetiadai, for their fight with the Dioscuri, which is described by Pindar (Nem. x. 111, &c.). Two other mythical personages of this name occur in Hom. Il. xiii. 541; Ov. Met. xii. 341.
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
Laocoosa (Laokoosa), the wife of Aphareus, and mother of Idas. (Theocrit. xxii. 206; comp. Apollod. iii. 10. Β§ 3, who, however, calls the mother of Idas Arene.)
BASSAE (Ancient sanctuary) ILIA
Epicurius, (Epikourios), the helper, a surname of Apollo, under which lie was worshipped at Bassae in Arcadia. Every year a wild boar was sacrificed to him in his temple on mount Lycaeus. He had received this surname because he had at one time delivered the country from a pestilence. (Paus. viii. 383.6, 41.5.)
FIGALIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Acratophorus (Akratophoros), a surname of Dionysus, by which he was designated as the giver of unmixed wine, and worshipped at Phigaleia in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 39.4)
Eurynome. A surname of Artemis at Phigalea in Arcadia. Her sanctuary which was surrounded by cypresses, was opened only once in every year, and sacrifices were then offered to her. She was represented half woman and half fish. (Paus. viii. 41.4.) There are four more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Od. xviii. 168; Apollod. iii. 9.2.)
FIGALIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Of Phigalia: husband of Hagnagora, sister of Aristomenes.
Son of Lycaon, founds Phigalia.
MINTHI (Mountain) ILIA
Near Pylus, towards the east, is a mountain named after Minthe, who, according to myth, became the concubine of Hades, was trampled under foot by Core, and was transformed into garden-mint, the plant which some call Hedyosmos.
Mintha or Minthe. A daughter of Cocytus, beloved by Hades, and metamorphosed
by Demeter, or Persephone (Proserpina), into a plant called after her mintha,
or mint. A hill near Pylos bore this name, and at its foot was a temple of Pluto
and grove of Demeter.
THISSOA (Ancient city) ANDRITSENA
Nymph, nurse of Zeus.
SAMIKON (Ancient city) ILIA
Anigrides, the nymphs of the river Anigrus in Elis. On the coast of Elis, not far from the mouth of the river, there was a grotto sacred to them, which was visited by persons afflicted with cutaneous diseases. They were cured here by prayers and sacrifices to the nymphs, and by bathing in the river. (Paus. v. 5. 6; Strab. viii. Eustath. ad Hom.)
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