Listed 35 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "ILIA Province WEST GREECE" .
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
"To Pisa Pelops, son of Tantalus, Borne on swift coursers" (Aristophanes, Frogs)
Euripides, Helen. Also, Iphigenia in Tauris.
ILIS (Ancient city) ILIA
Pausanias Description of Elis (6.23.6 - 6.26.3
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
City of Elis.
DYSPONTION (Ancient city) PYRGOS
FOLOE (Mountain) ILIA
Mountain in Arcadia, Herakles entertained by the centaur Pholus at.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Elean village.
KYLLINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Port of Elis.
LAMBIA (Mountain) ILIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
LETRINI (Ancient city) PYRGOS
Town of Elis.
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
A town in Elis, its distance from Athens, dear to Zeus, founded by Pisus, ruled by Oenomaus, acquired by Pelops, Pelops returns to, spared by Herakles, boundary, territory, bone of Pelops brought from Pisa to Troy, Pantaleon tyrant of, people of Pisa contend with Arcadians and Eleans for presidency of Olympic games, hold Olympic games, at war with Eleans, Pisa destroyed by Eleans, its site occupied by vineyards, statue of Herakles made by Daedalus at.
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
City of Elis, founded by Pylas, mentioned by Homer, its people fight Arcadians at Phea and help Eleans against Herakles, Pylos captured and destroyed by Herakles, rebuilt by Eleans, its ruins, Pylians, descendants of Nestor of Pylos, Pisistratus of that family, Caucones called Pylians.
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
City of Elis.
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Pindar, Odes
ALISSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Aleisium is the present Alesiaeum, a territory in the neighborhood
of Amphidolis, in which the people of the surrounding country hold a monthly market.
It is situated on the mountain road that runs from Elis to Olympia. In earlier
times it was a city of Pisatis, for the boundaries have varied at different times
on account of the change of rulers. The poet also calls Aleisium "Hill of Aleisium,"
when he says:"until we caused our horses to set foot on Buprasium, rich in wheat,
and on the Olenian Rock, and of Aleisium where is the place called Hill". (we
must interpret the words as a case of hyperbaton, that is, as equivalent to "and
where is the place called Hill of Aleisium"). Some writers point also to a river
Aleisius.
AMFIDOLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
As for "well-built Aepy," some raise the question which of the two words is the epithet and which is the city, and whether it is the Margalae of today, in Amphidolia.
Aleisium is the present Alesiaeum, a territory in the neighborhood of Amphidolis
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Near Olympia is Arpina, also one of the eight cities, through which flows the River Parthenias, on the road that leads up to Pheraea.
DYSPONTION (Ancient city) PYRGOS
Here, too, is Cicysium, one of the eight cities; and also Dyspontium, which is situated in a plain and on the road that leads from Elis to Olympia; but it was destroyed, and most of its inhabitants emigrated to Epidamnus and Apollonia.
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
On the Selleeis is situated a city Ephyra, which is to be distinguished
from the Thesprotian, Thessalian, and Corinthian Ephyras; it is a fourth Ephyra,
and is situated on the road that leads to Lasion, being either the same city as
Boenoa (for thus Oenoe is usually called), or else near that city, at a distance
of one hundred and twenty stadia from the city of the Eleians. This, apparently,
is the Ephyra which Homer calls the home of the mother of Tlepolemus the son of
Heracles.
FIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
After Chelonatas comes the long seashore of the Pisatans; and
then Cape Pheia. And there was also a small town called Pheia: "beside the walls
of Pheia, about the streams of Iardanus,"for there is also a small river nearby.
According to some, Pheia is the beginning of Pisatis. Off Pheia lie a little island
and a harbor, from which the nearest distance from the sea to Olympia is one hundred
and twenty stadia. Then comes another cape, Ichthys, which, like Chelonatas, projects
for a considerable distance towards the west; and from it the distance to Cephallenia
is again one hundred and twenty stadia. Then comes the mouth of the Alpheius which
is distant two hundred and eighty stadia from Chelonatas, and five hundred and
forty five from Araxus.
FOLOE (Mountain) ILIA
Pholoe, an Arcadian mountain, is also situated above Olympia, and very close to it, so that its foothills are in Pisatis. Both the whole of Pisatis and most parts of Triphylia border on Arcadia; and on this account most of the Pylian districts mentioned in the Catalogue are thought to be Arcadian; the well-informed, however, deny this, for they say that the Erymanthus, one of the rivers that empty into the Alpheius, forms a boundary of Arcadia and that the districts in question are situated outside that river.(8.3.32)
At the present time the whole of the seaboard that lies between the countries of the Achaeans and the Messenians, and extends inland to the Arcadian districts of Pholoe, of the Azanes, and of the Parrhasians, is called the Eleian country.(8.3.1)
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Near Salmone is Heracleia, which is also one of the eight cities; it is about forty stadia distant from Olympia and is situated on the Cytherius River, where is the temple of the Ioniades Nymphs, who have been believed to cure diseases with their waters.
ILIS (Ancient city) ILIA
What is now the city of Elis had not yet been founded in Homer's time; in fact, the people of the country lived only in villages. And the country was called Coele5 Elis from the fact in the case, for the most and best of it was "Coele." It was only relatively late, after the Persian wars, that people came together from many communities into what is now the city of Elis.(Strabo 8.3.2)
INOI (Ancient city) ILIA
...being either the same city as Boenoa (for thus Oenoe is usually called)
KATAKOLO (Village) ILIA
He refers the cape by the name Ichthys (8,3,12).
KYLLINI (Ancient city) ILIA
After this cape (Araxos), as one proceeds towards the west,
one comes to the naval station of the Eleians, Cyllene, from which there is a
road leading inland to the present city Elis, a distance of one hundred and twenty
stadia. Homer, too, mentions this Cyllene when he says, "Otus, a Cyllenian, a
chief of the Epeians," for he would not have represented a chieftain of the Epeians
as being from the Arcadian mountain.10 Cyllene is a village of moderate size;
and it has the Asclepius made by Colotes--an ivory image that is wonderful to
behold. After Cyllene one comes to the promontory Chelonatas, the most westerly
point of the Peloponnesus. Off Chelonatas lies an isle, and also some shallows
that are on the common boundary between Coele Elis and the country of the Pisatae;
and from here the voyage to Cephallenia is not more than eighty stadia. Somewhere
in this neighborhood, on the aforesaid boundary line, there also flows the River
Elison or Elisa.
LAMBIA (Mountain) ILIA
The Olenian Rock is surmised to be what is now called Scollis; for we are obliged to state what is merely probable, because both the places and the names have undergone changes, and because in many cases the poet does not make himself very clear. Scollis is a rocky mountain common to the territories of the Dymaeans, the Tritaeans, and the Eleians, and borders on another Arcadian mountain called Lampeia, which is one hundred and thirty stadia distant from Elis, one hundred from Tritaea, and the same from Dyme; the last two are Achaean cities.
MYRSINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Hyrmine and Myrsinus belong to the Eleian country .. Myrsinus is the present Myrtuntium, a settlement that extends down to the sea, and is situated on the road which runs from Dyme into Elis, and is seventy stadia distant from the city of the Eleians.
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
It was between the outlets of the Peneius and the Selleeis, near the Scollium, that Pylus was situated; not the city of Nestor, but another Pylus which has nothing in common with the Alpheius, nor with the Pamisus (or Amathus, if we should call it that). Yet there are some who do violence to Homer's words, seeking to win for themselves the fame and noble lineage of Nestor; for, since history mentions three Pyluses in the Peloponnesus (as is stated in this verse: "There is a Pylus in front of Pylus; yea, and there is still another Pylus," the Pylus in question, the Lepreatic Pylus in Triphylia and Pisatis, and a third, the Messenian Pylus near Coryphasium, the inhabitants of each try to show that the Pylus in their own country is "emathoeis" and declare that it is the native place of Nestor.
However, the writers from Coele Elis have not only supported their own Pylus with a similar zeal, but have also attached to it tokens of recognition, pointing out a place called Gerenus, a river called Geron, and another river called Geranius, and then confidently asserting that Homer's epithet for Nestor, "Gerenian," was derived from these. But the Messenians have done the selfsame thing, and their argument appears at least more plausible; for they say that their own Gerena is better known, and that it was once a populous place. Such, then, is the present state of affairs as regards Coele Elis.
SKOLLIS (Mountain) ACHAIA
The Olenian Rock is surmised to be what is now called Scollis; for we are obliged to state what is merely probable, because both the places and the names have undergone changes, and because in many cases the poet does not make himself very clear. Scollis is a rocky mountain common to the territories of the Dymaeans, the Tritaeans, and the Eleians, and borders on another Arcadian mountain called Lampeia
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
..Hyrmine and Myrsinus belong to the Eleian country .. Now Hyrmine was a small town. It is no longer in existence, but near Cyllene there is a mountain promontory called Hormina or Hyrmina.
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