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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
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Eth. Pisates, Pisaieus. A town in Peloponnesus, was in the most ancient
times the capital of an independent district, called Pisatis (he Pisatis), which
subsequently formed part of the territory of Elis. It was celebrated in mythology
as the residence of Oenomaus and Pelops, and was the head of a confederacy of
eight states, of which, besides Pisa, the following names are recorded:--Salmone,
Heracleia, Harpinna, Cycesium, and Dyspontium. (Strab. viii. p. 356, seq.) Pisa
had originally the presidency of the Olympic festival, but was deprived of this
privilege by the Eleians. The Pisatans, however, made many attempts to recover
it; and the history of their wars with the Eleians, which were at last terminated
by the destruction of Pisa in B.C. 572, is narrated elsewhere. Although Pisa ceased
to exist as a city from this time, the Pisatans, in conjunction with the Arcadians,
celebrated the 104th Olympic festival, B.C. . 364. Pisa was said to have been
founded by an eponymous hero, Pisus, the son of Perieres, and grandson of Aeolus
(Paus. vi. 22. § 2); but others derived its name from a fountain Pisa. (Strab.
viii. p. 356; Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 409.) Modern writers connect its name with
Pisos, a low marshy ground, or with Pissa, the name of the black fir or pinetree.
So completely was Pisa destroyed by the Eleians, that the fact of its having existed
was a disputed point in the time of Strabo; and Pausanias found its site converted
into a vineyard (vi. 22. § 1). Its situation, however, was perfectly well known
to Pindar and Herodotus. Pindar frequently identifies it with Olympia (e. g. Ol.
ii. 3); and Herodotus refers to Pisa and Olympia as the same point in computing
the distance from the altar of the twelve gods at Athens (ii. 7). Pisa appears
from Pausanias to have occupied a position between Harpinna and Olympia, which
were only 20 stadia asunder (Lucian, de Mort. Peregr. 35); and the Scholiast on
Pindar (Ol. xi. 51) says that Pisa was only 6 stadia from Olympia. It must therefore
be placed a little east of Olympia, and its acropolis probably occupied a height
on the western side of the rivulet of Miraka, near its junction with the Alpheius.
Strabo says that it lay between the mountains Olympus and Ossa, which can only
have been heights on different sides of the river.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
or Harpinna. A town in Pisatis (Elis) near Olympia, named after a daughter of Asopus.
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
The capital of Pisatis, the middle portion of the province of
Elis, in the Peloponnesus. Pisa itself was situated north of the Alphaeus, at
a very short distance east of Olympia, and, in consequence of its proximity to
the latter place, was frequently identified by the poets with it. The history
of the Pisatae consists of their struggle with the Eleans, with whom they contended
for the presidency of the Olympic Games. The Pisatae obtained this honour in the
eighth Olympiad (B.C. 748), with the assistance of Phidon, tyrant of Argos, and
also a second time in the thirty-fourth Olympiad (B.C. 644), by means of their
own king Pantaleon. In the fifty-second Olympiad (B.C. 572) the struggle between
the two peoples was brought to a close by the conquest and destruction of Pisa
by the Eleans.
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City of Elis,
in northwestern Peloponnese.
The city of Pisa was said to owe its name either to the legendary
hero Pisus, a son of Perieres, king of Messenia,
himself a son of Aeolus, son of Hellen, son of Deucalion, or to Pisa, a daughter
of Endymion, king of Elis
and son (or grandson) of Zeus.
But the most famous legendary king of Pisa was Oenomaus, whose story
is linked to that of Pelops. Oenomaus was the son of Ares and Harpinna, a daughter
of the river-god Asopus. He had a daughter named Hippodamia, who was very beautifull
and, as a result, courted by many young men seeking to marry her. But Oenomaus
was reluctant to let anybody marry his daughter, either because he was himself
in love with her or because of an oracle who would have told him that he would
be killed by his son-in-law. So, he had devised a trial to which he subjected
all suitors of his daughter: they had to beat him in a chariot race to the altar
of Poseidon in Corinth. He
would sacrifice a ram to Zeus before starting the race and let his opponent go
while so doing. But the fact is, his chariot was drawn by godly horses given him
by his father Ares so that they could not be beaten by earthly horses. Besides,
the suitor had to take Hippodamia with him on his chariot, which made it heavier
and could distract him. Anyway, Oenomaus would always catch up on his opponent
and kill him, behead him and nail his head on the door of his palace to deter
future suitors.
It is after twelve suitors had been so defeated and killed that Pelops
came to try his luck. When seeing him, Hippodamia fell in love with him and managed
to obtain from Myrtilus, her father's chariot driver who was also in love with
her, that he sabotage Oenomaus' chariot, which he did by replacing the pins that
were fastening the wheels of the chariot to the axle by fake ones made of wax.
As a result, the chariot broke during the race and Oenomaus, caught in the reins,
was dragged by his horses to his death (unless he was killed by Pelops himself).
Pelops married Hippodamia who became the mother of Atreus, Thyestes
and several other children, and, through Atreus, the grandmother of Agamemnon
and Menelaus, and, through one of her daughters, Astydamia, the grandmother of
Amphitryon, the “earthly” father of Heracles.
Pisa was located near the site of Olympia
where the Olympic games, insituted by Pelops, were held and, as a result, challenged
Elis for the presidence of
the games until it was destroyed by the later around 572 B. C.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1999), ed.
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PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Archdiocese in Tuscany,
central Italy. The city is
situated on the Arno, six miles from the sea, on a fertile plain, while the neighbouring
mountains yield marble, alabaster, copper, and other mineral products; mineral
waters abound in the province. The famous duomo or cathedral is a basilica in
the shape of a Latin cross, with five naves, the columns of which are of oriental
granite.
Pisa is the ancient Pisae,
in antiquity held to be a colony of Pisae
in Elis. Later, it probably
belonged to the Etruscans. The people devoted themselves to commerce and to piracy.
From 225 B.C., they were in amicable relations with the Romans, who used the port
of Pisae in the Punic War, and against the Ligurians, in 193. By the Julian law,
if not earlier, the town obtained Roman citizenship. In 1005, the town was sacked
by the Saracens, who, in turn, was vanquished by the Pisans and Genoese, in Sardinia.
Meanwhile, the Pisans, who for centuries had had stations in Calabria
and in Sicily, had extended
their commerce to Africa and to Spain,
and also to the Levant. The Pisans obtained great concessions in Palestine
and in the principality of Antioch
by lending their ships for the transportation of crusaders in 1099, and thereafter
people of all nations were to be found in their city. In 1063 they had made an
attempt against Palermo,
and in 1114 led by the consul, Azzo Marignani, conquered the Balearic
Islands. Pisa supported the emperors at an early date.
Leghorn, Pescia, Pontremoli, and Volterra
are the suffragans of Pisa.
U. Benigni, ed.
Transcribed by: Gerald Rossi
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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