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ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Harpinna: Eth. Harpinaios. A town of Pisatis (Elis) situated on the
right bank of the Alpheius, on the road to Heraea, at the distance of 20 stadia
from the hippodrome of Olympia. (Lucian, de Mort. Peregr. 35.) Harpina is said
to have been founded by Oenomaus, who gave it the name of his mother. The ruins
of the town were seen by Pausanias. According to Strabo, Harpina stood upon the
stream Parthenius; according to Pausanias, upon one called Harpinates. The ruins
of the town stand upon a ridge a little northward of the village of Miraka: there
are two small rivulets on either side of the ridge, of which the eastern one appears
to be the Parthenius, and the western the Harpinates. (Strab. viii. pp. 356, 3571
; Paus. vi. 20. § 8; Steph. B. s. v.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
or Harpinna. A town in Pisatis (Elis) near Olympia, named after a daughter of Asopus.
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