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KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
Ephure. Probably an Aeolic form of Ephora (ephorao, ephoroi), and equivalent to
Epope, 'a watchtower.' This descriptive name was naturally applicable to many
places; and we find no less than eleven of the name enumerated (Pape, Dict.s.v.).
But of these there are but three, or at most four, that come into the Homeric
poems.
(1) The city afterwards called Corinth, Il.2. 570; 6. 152, which of course is
not intended in the present passage:
(2) A town in Thessaly, known in later times as Crannon, cp. Il.13. 301, with
the interpretation of Strabo (9. 442). But for the Ephyra in the Odyssey the question
lies only between
(3) a town in Thesprotia, called later Kichuros ( Il.2. 659), and
(4) an old Pelasgic town in Elis on the river Selleis (Strabo 7. 328; 8. 338).
Nitzsch declares in favour of (3), because in this passage Athena,
in the character of Mentes king of the Taphians, represents Odysseus as having
touched at Taphos on his return (anionta) from Ephyra to Ithaca; and in a direct
line Taphos lies between Thesprotia and Ithaca; but a ship sailing round the Leucadian
promontory to Ithaca would avoid Taphos altogether, and Leucas had not yet been
made into an island by the channel dug across the neck, for Homer calls it akte
epeiroio Od.24. 378.But if, following the Schol. on Ap. Rhod.1. 747, we place
the Taphian isles among the Echinades and so much further S. , we shall get an
equally good argument in favour of the Eleian Ephyra, as Taphos would then lie
between Ephyra and Ithaca. Another argument in favour of the Eleian town is the
mention ( Il.11. 741) of Agamede, daughter of Augeias king of Elis, as a sorceress,
he tosa pharmaka eide hosa trephei eureia chthon, which suits well with the description
here of the androphonon pharmakon and thumophthora pharmaka in Od.2. 329.In the
latter passage, Ephyra is named along with Pylos and Sparta, as if all three places
were in the Peloponnese.
Again, in Il.3. 627, Meges son of Phyleus is said to have been the
leader of the contingent from Dulichium and the Echinades, hai naiousi peren halos
Elidos anta, and in Il.15. 530, Phyleus is described as having bought a corslet,
ex Ephures potamou apo Selleentos. The statement of the Scholiast that Ilus son
of Mermerus was great grandson of Jason and Medea, and was king of Thesprotia,
is given on the authority of Apollodorus. Eustath. also mentions a story which
makes Medea to have lived for a while in Elis; either story doubtless being invented
or acknowledged by those who maintained the claims of the Thesprotian or Eleian
Ephyra respectively. See Buchholz, Hom. Real. 1. 1. p. 90.
DODONI (Ancient city) IOANNINA
If I am to base my calculations on the accounts of the Greeks in fixing the relative ages of such trees as are still preserved and flourish, the oldest of them is the withy growing in the Samian sanctuary of Hera, after which come the oak in Dodona, the olive on the Acropolis and the olive in Delos.
ACHERON (River) EPIRUS
A river of N.W. Greece, river of Thesprotis, river of hell, its glen supposed to be a passage to the world of the dead, Cerberus at the gates of.
ACHERUSIA (Lake) EPIRUS
Lake in Thesprotis.
AMVRAKIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
DODONI (Ancient city) IOANNINA
Sanctuary of Zeus in NW Greece,oracle consulted, story suggesting a connexion between Egypt and Dodona, Hyperborean offerings at Dodona, the sacred oak of, Peleae at, soothsayer of.
In hand of Demeter, oracular doves at Dodona, let fly between the Clashing Rocks.
EPIRUS (Ancient country) GREECE
District of Thesprotian Epirus.
GLYKOS LIMIN (Ancient port) EPIRUS
Epirus has two harbors, one at Buthrotum and the other at Glycys Limen (at Acheron's mouth). (Perseus Encyclopedia Site Text)
KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
In Thesprotia (Paus. 1.17.4)
KOKYTOS (River) THESPROTIA
River in Thesprotis and hell.
MOLOSSIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
Perseus Encyclopedia
NIKOPOLIS (Archaeological site) EPIRUS
Near Actium, founded by Augustus, belongs to Amphictyonic League.
THESPROTIA (Ancient country) EPIRUS
District of Epirus, Ambraciots of, river Aous in, Ephyrians of, white poplar brought by Herakles to Greece from, Pyrrhus restored by Ptolemy to, raid of Theseus and Pirithous into, rivers of, its scenery furnished Homer with his descriptions of hell.
ACHERUSIA (Lake) EPIRUS
Acherusia (Acherousia limne or Acherousis), a name given by the ancients to several lakes
or swamps, which, like the various rivers of the name of Acheron, were at some
time believed to be connected with the lower world, until at last the Acherusia
came to be considered to be in the lower world itself. The lake to which this
belief seems to have been first attached was the Acherusia in Thesprotia, through
which the river Acheron flowed (Thuc. i. 46; Strab. vii.). Other lakes or swamps
of the same name, and believed to be in connexion with the lower world, were near
Hermione in Argolis (Paus. ii. 35.7), near Heraclea in Bithynia (Xen. Anab. vi.
2.2; Diod. xiv. 31), bettween Cumae and cape Misenum in Campania (Plin. H. N.
iii. 5; Strab. v.), and lastly in Egypt, near Memphis (Diod. i. 96).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DODONI (Ancient city) IOANNINA
Phaedrus (by Plato)
Socrates: They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak
AMVRAKIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
As for cities, those of the Acarnanians are .. also other cities, Palaerus, Alyzia, Leucas, Argos Amphilochicum, and Ambracia, most of which, or rather all, have become dependencies of Nicopolis.
ATHAMANIA (Ancient area) EPIRUS
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
ATINTANES (Ancient country) EPIRUS
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
DODONI (Ancient city) IOANNINA
This oracle, according to Ephorus, was founded by the Pelasgi. And the Pelasgi are called the earliest of all peoples who have held dominion in Greece.
In ancient times, then, Dodona was under the rule of the Thesprotians; and so was Mount Tomarus, or Tmarus (for it is called both ways), at the base of which the temple is situated. And both the tragic poets and Pindar have called Dodona "Thesprotian Dodona." But later on it came under the rule of the Molossi.
Now as for the Epeirotes, there are fourteen tribes of them, according to Theopompus, but of these the Chaones and the Molossi are the most famous, because of the fact that they once ruled over the whole of the Epeirote country—the Chaones earlier and later the Molossi; and the Molossi grew to still greater power, partly because of the kinship of their kings, who belonged to the family of the Aeacidae, and partly because of the fact that the oracle at Dodona was in their country, an oracle both ancient and renowned.
ELATRIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
Near Cichyrus is Buchetium, a small town of the Cassopaeans, which is only a short distance above the sea; also Elatria, Pandosia, and Batiae, which are in the interior, though their territory reaches down as far as the gulf (Strab. 7,7,5)..
ETHIKIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
Thesprotian Ephyri of Cichyrus, which in earlier times was called Ephyra (Strabo 8.3.5)
MOLOSSIA (Ancient area) IOANNINA
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
PAROREI (Ancient country) EPIRUS
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
TOMAROS (Mountain) DODONI
In ancient times, then, Dodona was under the rule of the Thesprotians; and so was Mount Tomarus, or Tmarus for it is called both ways, at the base of which the temple is situated. (Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 7.7.11)
TYMFEI (Ancient country) EPIRUS
The Amphilochians are Epeirotes; and so are the peoples who are situated above them and border on the Illyrian mountains, inhabiting a rugged country--I mean the Molossi, the Athamanes, the Aethices, the Tymphaei, the Orestae, and also the Paroraei and the Atintanes, some of them being nearer to the Macedonians and others to the Ionian Gulf.
VATIES (Ancient city) PREVEZA
Also Elatria, Pandosia, and Batiae, which are in the interior, though their territory reaches down as far as the gulf (Strab. 7,7,5).
VOUCHETION (Ancient city) PREVEZA
Near Cichyrus is Buchetium, a small town of the Cassopaeans, which is only a short distance above the sea.
AMVRAKIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
The Ambraciots participated in the Peloponnesean war (431-404 BC). They were allies of the Lacedaemonians and they fought against the Atheneans and their supporters.
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