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AKARNANIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
(Leleges). An ancient race, frequently mentioned with the Pelasgians as the prehistoric inhabitants of Greece. The Leleges were described as a warlike and migratory race, who first took possession of the coasts and the islands of Greece, and afterwards penetrated into the interior. Piracy was probably their chief occupation; and they are represented as the ancestors of the Teleboans and the Taphians, who were notorious for their piracies. The name of the Leleges was derived by the Greeks from an ancestor, Lelex, who is called king of either Megaris or Lacedaemon. They must be regarded as a branch of the great Indo-Germanic race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. They are spoken of as inhabiting Acarnania and Aetolia, and afterwards Phocis, Locris, Boeotia, Megaris, Elis, and Laconia, which last was originally called Lelegia; also (in Asia Minor) Ionia, the southern part of the Troad, and Caria.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
The Evenus River begins in the territory of those Bomians who live in the country of the Ophians, the Ophians being an Aetolian tribe (like the Eurytanians and Agraeans and Curetes and others), and flows at first, not through the Curetan country, which is the same as the Pleuronian, but through the more easterly country, past Chalcis and Calydon; and then, bending back towards the plains of Old Pleuron and changing its course to the west, it turns.
The Apodoti, Ophionenses, and Eurytanes, inhabited only the central districts of Aetolia, and did not occupy any part of the plain between the Evenus and the Achelous, which was the abode of the more civilized part of the nation, who bore no other name than that of Aetolians. The Apodoti (Apodotoi, Thuc. iii. 94; Apodotoi, Pol. xvii. 5) inhabited the mountains above Naupactus, on the borders of Locris. They are said by Polybius not to have been Hellenes. (Comp. Liv. xxxii. 34.) North of these dwelt the Ophionenses or Ophienses (Ophioneis, Thuc. l. c.; Ophieis, Strab. pp. 451,465), and to them belonged the smaller tribes of the Bomienses (Bomies, Thuc. iii. 96; Strab. p. 451; Steph. Byz. s. v. Bomoi) and Callienses (Kallies, Thuc. l.c.), both of which inhabited the ridge of Oeta running down towards the Malic gulf: the former are placed by Strabo (l. c.) at the sources of the Evenus, and the position of the latter is fixed by that of their capital town Callium. The Eurytanes (Eurutanes, Thuc. iii. 94, et alii) dwelt north of the Ophionenses, as far, apparently, as Mt. Tymphrestus, at the foot of which was the town Oechalia, which Strabo describes as a place belonging to this people. They are said to have possessed an oracle of Odysseus. (Strab. pp, 448, 451, 465; Schol. ad Lycophr. 799.)
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
The Agraei, who inhabited the north-west corner of Aetolia, bordering upon Ambracia, were not a division of the Aetolian nation, but a separate people, governed at the time of the Peloponnesian war by a king of their own, and only united to Aetolia at a later period. The Aperanti, who lived in the same district, appear to have been a subdivision of the Agraei. Pliny (iv. 3) mentions various other peoples as belonging to Aetolia, such as the Athamanes, Tymphaei, Dolopes, &c.; but this statement is only true of the later period of the Aetolian League, when the Aetolians had extended their dominion over most of the neighbouring tribes of Epirus and Thessaly.
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
Apollodorus, also, says that, according to history, the Hyantes left Boeotia and settled among the Aetolians.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 10.3.4)
ANAKTORION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
A people of N.W. Greece, fight at Plataea, removed to Nicopolis by Augustus.
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Called after Aetolus, Elis the only Aetolian part of the Peloponnese, their muster for the Trojan war, at enmity with Acarnanians, settled in Elis, helped by Agesilaus, march against Thessalians, attacked by Achaeans, harassed by Philip, son of Demetrius, resist Gauls, Aetolian confederacy dedicates statue of Cylon at Olympia, offerings at Delphi, Aetolians transferred to Nicopolis by Augustus.
AGREA (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Agraei (Atraioi, Thuc. iii. 106; Strab. p. 449: Agraeis, Pol. xvii.
5; Steph. Byz. s. v.), a people in the NW. of Aetolia, bounded on the W. by Acarnania,
from which it was separated by Mount Thyamus (Spartovuni); on the NW. by the territory
of Argos Amphilochicum; and on the N. by Dolopia. Their territory was called Agrais,
or Agyraea (Agrai-idos, Thuc. iii. 111; Agraia, Strab. p. 338), and the river
Achelous flowed through the centre of it. The Agraei were a non-Hellenic people,
and at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war were governed by a native king,
called Salynthius, who is mentioned as an ally of the Ambraciots, when the latter
were defeated by the Acarnanians and Demosthenes in B.C. 426. Two years afterwards
(424) Demosthenes marched against Salynthius and the Agraei, and compelled them
to join the Athenian alliance. Subsequently they became subject to the Aetolians,
and are called an Aetolian people by Strabo. (Thuc. ii. 102, iii. 106, 114, iv.
77; Strab. p. 449; Pol. xvii. 5; Liv. xxxii. 34.) This people is mentioned by
Cicero (in Pison. 37), under the name of Agrinae, which is perhaps a corrupt form.
Strabo (p. 338) mentions a village called Ephyra in their country; and Agrinium
would also appear from its name to have been one of their towns. The Aperanti
were perhaps a tribe of the Agraei. The Agraei were a different people from the
Agrianes, who lived on the borders of Macedonia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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