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Heroes

Cillas or Cillus

KILLA (Ancient city) EOLIS
Cillas or Cillus (Killas or Killos), the charioteer of Pelops, whose real name, according to a Troezenian tradition, was Sphaerus. His tomb was shewn near the town of Cilla in the neigh-hourhood of the temple of Apollo. (Paus. v. 10.2; Strab. xiii.)

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Settlers

Gras

EOLIS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Eurysthenes, the elder of the sons of Aristodemus, had, they say, a son Agis, after. whom the family of Eurysthenes is called the Agiadae. In his time, when Patreus the son of Preugenes was founding in Achaea a city which even at the present day is called Patrae from this Patreus, the Lacedaemonians took part in the settlement. They also joined in an expedition oversea to found a colony. Gras the son of Echelas the son of Penthilus the son of Orestes was the leader, who was destined to occupy the land between Ionia and Mysia, called at the present day Aeolis; his ancestor Penthilus had even before this seized the island of Lesbos that lies over against this part of the mainland. (Paus. 3.2.1)

Gras: Perseus Encyclopedia

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