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ALFIOS (River) ILIA
There is another legend about the Alpheius. They say that there was a hunter called Alpheius, who fell in love with Arethusa, who was herself a huntress. Arethusa, unwilling to marry crossed, they say, to the island opposite Syracuse called Ortygia, and there turned from a woman to a spring. Alpheius too was changed by his love into the river. This account of Alpheius...to Ortygia. But that the Alpheius passes through the sea and mingles his waters with the spring at this place I cannot disbelieve, as I know that the god at Delphi confirms the story. For this reason, therefore, because the water of the Alpheius mingles with the Arethusa, I am convinced that the legend arose of the river's love-affair.
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
For the fifth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King
Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but
sometimes even a hero has to do these things. Then Eurystheus made Hercules' task
even harder: he had to clean up after the cattle of Augeas in a single day.
For the fifth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King
Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but
sometimes even a hero has to do these things. Then Eurystheus made Hercules' task
even harder: he had to clean up after the cattle of Augeas in a single day.
Every night the cowherds, goatherds and shepherds drove the thousands
of animals to the stables. Every night the cowherds, goatherds and shepherds drove
the thousands of animals to the stables.
Hercules went to King Augeas, and without telling anything about Eurystheus,
said that he would clean out the stables in one day, if Augeas would give him
a tenth of his fine cattle. Augeas couldn't believe his ears, but promised. Hercules
brought Augeas's son along to watch. First the hero tore a big opening in the
wall of the cattle-yard where the stables were. Then he made another opening in
the wall on the opposite side of the yard.
Next, he dug wide trenches to two rivers which flowed nearby. He turned the course
of the rivers into the yard. The rivers rushed through the stables, flushing them
out, and all the mess flowed out the hole in the wall on other side of the yard.
When Augeas learned that Eurystheus was behind all this, he
would not pay Hercules his reward. Not only that, he denied that he had even promised
to pay a reward. Augeas said that if Hercules didn't like it, he could take the
matter to a judge to decide.
The judge took his seat. Hercules called the son of Augeas to testify. The
boy swore that his father had agreed to give Hercules a reward. The judge ruled
that Hercules would have to be paid. In a rage, Augeas ordered both his own son
and Hercules to leave his kingdom at once. So the boy went to the north country
to live with his aunts, and Hercules headed back to Mycenae. But Eurystheus said
that this labour didn't count, because Hercules was paid for having done the work.
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Eleius had a son Augeas. This Augeas had so many cattle and flocks of goats that actually most of his land remained untilled because of the dung of the animals. Now he persuaded Heracles to cleanse for him the land from dung, either in return for a part of Elis or possibly for some other reward. Heracles accomplished this feat too, turning aside the stream of the Menius into the dung. But, because Heracles had accomplished his task by cunning, without toil, Augeas refused to give him his reward, and banished Phyleus, the elder of his two sons, for objecting that he was wronging a man who had been his benefactor.
Heracles. 5. The stables of Augeas. Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles the task of cleaning the stables of Augeas in one day. Augeas was king of Elis, and extremely rich in cattle. Heracles, without mentioning the command of Eurystheus, went to Augeas, offering in one day to clean his stables, if he would give him the tenth part of the cattle for his trouble, or, according to Pausanias (v. i.7) a part of his territory. Augeas, believing that Heracles could not possibly accomplish what he promised, agreed, and Heracles took Phyleus, the son of Augeas, as his witness, and then led the rivers Alpheius and Peneius through the stables, which were thus cleaned in the time fixed upon. But Augeas, who learned that Heracles had undertaken the work by the command of Eurystheus, refused the reward, denied his promise, and declared that he would have the matter decided by a judicial verdict. Phyleus then bore witness against his father, who exiled him from Elis. Eurystheus declared the work thus performed to be unlawful, because Heracles had stipulated with Augeas a payment for it. (Apollod. ii. 5.5; Theocrit. xxv. 88, &c.; Ptolem. Heph. 5; Athen. x.; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. xi. 42.) At a subsequent time Hferacles, to revenge the faithlessness of Augeas, marched with an army of Argives and Tirynthians against Augeas, but in a narrow defile in Elis he was taken by surprise by Cteatus and Eurytus, and lost a great number of his warriors. But afterwards Heracles slew Cteatus and Eurytus, invaded Elis, and killed Augeas and his sons. After this victory, Heracles marked out the sacred ground on which the Olympian games were to be celebrated, built altars, and instituted the Olympian festival and games. (Apollod. ii. 7.2; Paus. v. 1.7. 3.1, &c., 4.1; viii. 15.2; Pind. Ol. xi. 25, &c., comp. v. 5, iii. 13, &c.)
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ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Endymion, (Endumion). In Greek mythology, the
beautiful son of Aethlius (or, according to another story, of Zeus) and Calyce,
daughter of Aeolus, king of Elis, father of Epeus, Aetolus, and Paeon, the first
of whom won the government of the country by conquering in a race which his father
had set on foot. He was loved by Selene, the moon-goddess, by whom he had fifty
daughters. They were supposed to symbolize the fifty lunar months which intervened
between the Olympic Games. His grave was at Olympia. Another story made him a
shepherd or hunter on Mount Latmos in Caria. Zeus bestowed on him eternal youth
and eternal life in the form of unbroken slumber. Selene descended every night
from heaven to visit and embrace the beautiful sleeper in his grotto. The usual
story, however, makes Selene to have thrown him into a sleep so that she might
kiss and caress him without his knowledge. A beautiful statue in the British Museum
represents Endymion, and the legend inspired Keats to write one of the most exquisite
poems in English literature.
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Endymion (Endumion), a youth distinguished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his life. Some traditions about Endymion refer us to Elis, and others to Caria, and others again are a combination of the two. According to the first set of legends, he was a son of Aethlius and Calyce,or of Zeus and Calyce, and succeeded Aethlius in the kingdom of Elis (Paus. v. 1.2). Others again say that he expelled Clymenus from the kingdom of Elis, and introduced into the country Aeolian settlers from Thessaly (Apollod. i. 7.5, &c.; Paus. v. 8.1). Conon (Narrat 14) calls him a son of Zeus and Protogencia, and Hyginus (Fab. 271) a son of Aetolus. He is said to have been married to Asterodia, Chromia, Hyperippe, Neis, or Iphianassa; and Aetolus, Paeon, Epeius. Eurydice, and Naxus are called his children. He was, however, especially beloved by Selene, by whom he had fifty daughters (Paus. v. 1.2). He caused his sons to engage in the race-course at Olympia, and promised to the victor the succession in his kingdom, and Epeius conquered his brothers, and succeeded Endymion as king of Elis. He was believed to be buried at Olympia, which also contained a statue of his in the treasury of the Metapontians (Paus. vi. 19.8, 20.6). According to a tradition, believed at Heracleia in Caria, Endymion had come from Elis to mount Latmus in Caria, whence he is called the Latmian (Latmius; Paus. v. 1. § 4; Ov. Ars Am. iii. 83, Trist. ii. 299). He is described by the poets either as a king, a shepherd, or a hunter (Theocrit. iii. 49, xx. 37 with the Scholiast), and while he was slumbering in a cave of mount Latmus, Selene came down to him, kissed, and lay by his side (Comp. Apollon. Rhod. iv. 57). There also he had, in later times, a sanctuary, and his tomb was shewn in a cave of mount Latmus (Paus. v. 1.4; Strab. xiv.). His eternal sleep on Latmus is assigned to different causes in ancient story. Some said that Zeus had granted him a request, and that Endymion begged for immortality, eternal sleep, and everlasting youth (Apollod. i. 7.5.); others relate that he was received among the gods of Olympus, but as he there fell in love with Hera, Zeus, in his anger, punished him by throwing him into eternal sleep on mount Latmus (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 49). Others, lastly, state that Selene, charmed with his surpassing beauty, sent him to sleep, that she might be able to kiss him without being observed by him (Cic. Tuscal. i. 38). The stories of the fair sleeper, Endymion, the darling of Selene, are unquestionably poetical fictions, in which sleep is personified. His name and all his attributes confirm this opinion : Endymion signifies a being that gently comes over one; he is called a king, because he has power over all living creatures; a shepherd, because he slumbered in the cool caves of mount Latmus, that is, "the mount of oblivion". Nothing can be more beautiful, lastly, than the notion, that he is kissed by the soft rays of the moon (Comp. Plat. Phaed.; Ov. Am. i. 13. 43). There is a beautiful statue of a sleeping Endymion in the British Museum.
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Endymion, on Pausanias:
The first to rule in this land, they say, was Aethlius, who was the
son of Zeus and of Protogeneia, the daughter of Deucalion, and the father of Endymion.
The Moon, they say, fell in love with this Endymion and bore him fifty daughters.
Others with greater probability say that Endymion took a wife Asterodia--others
say she was Cromia, the daughter of Itonus, the son of Amphictyon; others again,
Hyperippe, the daughter of Arcas--but all agree that Endymion begat Paeon, Epeius,
Aetolus, and also a daughter Eurycyda. Endymion set his sons to run a race at
Olympia for the throne; Epeius won, and obtained the kingdom, and his subjects
were then named Epeans for the first time.(Paus. 5.1.4)
...Later on there (at Olympia) came (they say) from Crete Clymenus, the son of
Cardys, about fifty years after the flood came upon the Greeks in the time of
Deucalion. He was descended from Heracles of Ida; he held the games at Olympia
and set up an altar in honor of Heracles, his ancestor, and the other Curetes,
giving to Heracles the surname of Parastates (Assistant). And Endymion, the son
of Aethlius, deposed Clymenus, and set his sons a race in Olympia with the kingdom
as the prize. (Paus. 5.8.1)
... At the end of the stadium (at Olympia), where is the starting-place for the
runners, there is, the Eleans say, the tomb of Endymion. (Paus. 6.20.9)
Endymion, on Apollodorus:
Calyce and Aethlius had a son Endymion who led Aeolians from Thessaly and founded
Elis. But some say that he was a son of Zeus. As he was of surpassing beauty,
the Moon fell in love with him, and Zeus allowed him to choose what he would,
and he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless.
Endymion had by a Naiad nymph or, as some say, by Iphianassa, a son Aetolus, who
slew Apis, son of Phoroneus, and fled to the Curetian country. There he killed
his hosts, Dorus and Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons of Phthia and Apollo, and
called the country Aetolia after himself.( Apollod. 1.7.5-6)
Selene. The Greek goddess of the moon, daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Eos. She was described as a beautiful woman with long wings and golden diadem, from which she shed a mild light, riding in a car drawn by two white horses or mules or cows. The horns of the latter symbolized the crescent moon. In later times she was identified with Artemis (or else with Hecate and Persephone), as was Helios with Phoebus Apollo, and therefore was herself called Phoebe. After this she was also regarded as a huntress and archer, recognizable by her crescent as the goddess of the moon. She was worshipped on the days of the new and full moon. She bore to Zeus a daughter, Pandia, worshipped at Athens with her father at the festival of Pandia. On her love for Endymion, see Endymion. The Romans called her Luna, and had two temples to her at Rome--one on the Aventine and one on the Palatine.
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OLYMPIA (Ancient sanctuary) ILIA
In the western Peloponnese, in a peaceful, idyllic valley, between Kronos Hill and the confluence of the rivers Alpheios and Kladeos, there flourished in ancient times one of the most important pan Hellenic sanctuaries: the Sanctuary of Olympia. At this Sanctuary, apart from rituals performed for healing, games called Olympic were also established from a very early period and, with the passage of time, attracted the attention of all the Greeks. With the Olympic Games, the ideal of noble rivalry found its complete expression and for many centuries forged the unity and peace of the Greek world. Hence the Sanctuary where they took place was recognized as one of the greatest pan Hellenic centers.
Heracles, being the eldest, matched his brothers, as a game, in a running-race, and crowned the winner with a branch of wild olive. Heracles of Ida, therefore, has the reputation of being the first to have held, on the occasion I mentioned, the games, and to have called them Olympic. So he established the custom of holding them every fifth year, because he and his brothers were five in number. Now some say that Zeus wrestled here with Cronus himself for the throne, while others say that he held the games in honor of his victory over Cronus. The record of victors include Apollo, who outran Hermes and beat Ares at boxing. It is for this reason, they say, that the Pythian flute-song is played while the competitors in the pentathlum are jumping; for the flute-song is sacred to Apollo, and Apollo won Olympic victories.
SAMIKON (Ancient city) ILIA
One poem entitled Rhadine (of which Stesichorus is reputed to
be the author), which begins, "Come, thou clear-voiced Muse, Erato, begin thy
song, voicing to the tune of thy lovely lyre the strain of the children of Samus,"
refers to the children of the Samus in question; for Rhadine, who had been betrothed
to a tyrant of Corinth, the author says, set sail from Samus (not meaning, of
course, the Ionian Samus) while the west wind was blowing, and with the same wind
her brother, he adds, went to Delphi as chief of an embassy; and her cousin, who
was in love with her, set out for Corinth in his chariot to visit her. And the
tyrant killed them both and sent their bodies away on a chariot, but repented,
recalled the chariot, and buried their bodies.
MAKISTOS (Ancient city) ILIA
As for Eretria, some say that it was colonized from Triphylian Macistus by Eretrieus, but others say from the Eretria at Athens, which now is a marketplace.
ALIFIRA (Ancient city) ILIA
Alipherus or Halipherus (Alipheros), one of the sons of Lycaon, killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning for their insolence. (Apollod. iii. 8. § 1.) The town of Aliphera or Alipheira in Arcadia was believed to have been founded by him, and to have derived its name from him. (Paus. viii. 3.1, 26.4; Steph. Byz. s. v. Alipheira.)
DYSPONTION (Ancient city) PYRGOS
Son of Oenomaus, founder of Dyspontium.
Dysponteus or Dysponteus (Dusponteus or Duspontios), according to Pausanias (vi. 22.6), a son of Oenomaus, but according to Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Duspontion), a son of Pelops, was believed to be the founder of the town of Dyspontium, in Pisatis.
LEPREON (Ancient city) ILIA
Son of Pyrgeus, challenges Herakles to eating-match, killed by Herakles.
Leprea, a daughter of Pyrgeus, from whom the town of Lepreum, in the south of
Elis, was said to have derived its name (Paus. v. 5.4). Another tradition derived
the name from Lepreus, a son of Caucon, Glaucon, or Pyrgeus (Aelian, V. H. i.
24; Paus. v. 5.4), by Astydameia. He was a grandson of Poseidon (the Schol. ad
Callim. Hymn. in Jov. 39, calls him a son of Poseidon), and a rival of Heracles
both in his strength and his powers of eating, but he was conquered and slain
by him. His tomb was believed to exist at Phigalia. (Athen. x.; Paus. l. c.; Eustath.
ad Hom.)
LETRINI (Ancient city) PYRGOS
Son of Pelops, founds Letrini. (Paus. 6.22.8)
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
The founder of the city, they say, was Pisus, the son of Perieres, the son of Aeolus. (Paus. 6.22.2)
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
Retires to Peloponnese, founds Pylos.
PISSATIS (Ancient area) ILIA
A robber, slain by Herakles, his tomb, ridge of Saurus.
EPII LAND (Ancient country) ILIA
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Epeus, (Epeios). Son of Endymion, king of Elis. From him the Epei derived their
name.
ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Aphareus: Son of Perieres, king of Messenia, founds Arene, receives Tyndareus and Neleus, father of Idas and Lynceus and Pisus, his sons slain by Dioscuri and not buried at Sparta, tomb of A. at Sparta, A. and his children invoked as heroes by Messenians, their portraits. Arene: Daughter of Oebalus, half-sister and wife of Aphareus.
Aphareus, a son of the Messenian king Perieres and Gorgophone, the daughter of Perseus (Apollod. i. 9.5). His wife is called by Apollodorus (iii. 10.3) Arene, and by others Polydora or Laocoossa (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 152; Theocrit. xxii. 106). Aphareus had three sons, Lynceus, Idas, and Peisus. He was believed to have founded the town of Arene in Messenia, which he called after his wife. He received Neleus and Lycus, the son of Pandion, who had fled from their countries into his dominions. To the former he assigned a tract of land in Messenia, and from the latter he and his family learned the orgies of the great gods (Paus. iv. 2.3, &c.). Pausanias in this passage mentions only the two sons of Aphareus, Idas and Lynceus, who are celebrated in ancient story under the name of Apharetidai or Apharetiadai, for their fight with the Dioscuri, which is described by Pindar (Nem. x. 111, &c.). Two other mythical personages of this name occur in Hom. Il. xiii. 541; Ov. Met. xii. 341.
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Laocoosa (Laokoosa), the wife of Aphareus, and mother of Idas. (Theocrit. xxii. 206; comp. Apollod. iii. 10. Β§ 3, who, however, calls the mother of Idas Arene.)
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Founds city of Harpina.
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Brother of Augeas, father of Eurytus and Cteatus named Molionides after their mother Moline, share kingdom of Elis, marry daughters of Dexamenus, defeat Herakles, murdered by Herakles.
ALFIOS (River) ILIA
Demainetus, (Demainetos), a surname of Asclepius, derived from the name of a temple of his on the Alpheius. (Paus. vi. 21.4.)
BASSAE (Ancient sanctuary) ILIA
Epicurius, (Epikourios), the helper, a surname of Apollo, under which lie was worshipped at Bassae in Arcadia. Every year a wild boar was sacrificed to him in his temple on mount Lycaeus. He had received this surname because he had at one time delivered the country from a pestilence. (Paus. viii. 383.6, 41.5.)
FIGALIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Acratophorus (Akratophoros), a surname of Dionysus, by which he was designated as the giver of unmixed wine, and worshipped at Phigaleia in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 39.4)
Eurynome. A surname of Artemis at Phigalea in Arcadia. Her sanctuary which was surrounded by cypresses, was opened only once in every year, and sacrifices were then offered to her. She was represented half woman and half fish. (Paus. viii. 41.4.) There are four more mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Od. xviii. 168; Apollod. iii. 9.2.)
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
At the foot of Mount Cronius, on the north...is a sanctuary of Eileithyia, and
in it Sosipolis, a native Elean deity, is worshipped. Now they surname Eileithyia
Olympian, and choose a priestess for the goddess every year. The old woman who
tends Sosipolis herself too by an Elean custom lives in chastity, bringing water
for the god's bath and setting before him barley cakes kneaded with honey. In
the front part of the temple, for it is built in two parts, is an altar of Eileithyia
and an entrance for the public; in the inner Part Sosipolis is worshipped, and
no one may enter it except the woman who tends the god, and she must wrap her
head and face in a white veil. Maidens and matrons wait in the sanctuary of Eileithyia
chanting a hymn; they burn all manner of incense to the god, but it is not the
custom to pour libations of wine. An oath is taken by Sosipolis on the most important
occasions. The story is that when the Arcadians had invaded the land of Elis,
and the Eleans were set in array against them, a woman came to the Elean generals,
holding a baby to her breast, who said that she was the mother of the child but
that she gave him, because of dreams, to fight for the Eleans. The Elean officers
believed that the woman was to be trusted, and placed the child before the army
naked. When the Arcadians came on, the child turned at once into a snake. Thrown
into disorder at the sight, the Arcadians turned and fled, and were attacked by
the Eleans, who won a very famous victory, and so call the god Sosipolis. On the
spot where after the battle the snake seemed to them to go into the ground they
made the sanctuary. With him the Eleans resolved to worship Eileithyia also, because
this goddess to help them brought her son forth unto men. The tomb of the Arcadians
who were killed in the battle is on the hill across the Cladeus to the west. Near
to the sanctuary of Eileithyia are the remains of the sanctuary of Heavenly Aphrodite,
and there too they sacrifice upon the altars.
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ILIS (Ancient city) ILIA
Acesius (Akesios), a surname of Apollo, under which he was worshipped in Elis, where he had a splendid temple in the agora. This surname, which has the same meaning as akestor and alexikakos, characterised the god as the averter of evil. (Paus. vi. 24.5).
Ammonia, a surname of Hara, under which she was worshipped in Elis. The inhabitants of Elis had from the earliest times been in the habit of consulting the oracle of Zeus Ammon in Libya. (Paus. v. 15.7)
Chamyne (Chamune), a surname of Demeter in Elis, which was derived either from the earth having opened (Chainein at that place to receive Pluto, or from one Chamynus, to whom the building of a temple of Demeter at Elis was ascribed. (Paus. vi. 21.1)
(Pan). The Greek god of flocks and shepherds, described as the
son of the Arcadian shepherd deity Hermes and Dryops, by others as the son of
Hermes and Penelope, and by still others as the offspring of Penelope by all the
suitors. The Homeric hymn describes him as delighting all the gods, and thus getting
his name. He was perfectly developed from his birth; and when his mother saw him
she ran away through fear; but Hermes carried him to Olympus, where all the gods
were delighted with him, especially Dionysus. He was originally only an Arcadian
god; and Arcadia was always the principal seat of his worship. From this country
his name and worship afterwards spread over other parts of Greece; but at Athens
his worship was not introduced until the time of the battle of Marathon. In Arcadia
he was the god of forests, pastures, flocks, and shepherds, and dwelt in grottoes,
wandered on the summits of mountains and rocks, and in valleys, either amusing
himself with the chase, or leading the dances of the nymphs. As the god of flocks,
both of wild and tame animals, it was his province to increase and guard them;
but he was also a hunter, and hunters owed their success or failure to him. The
Arcadian hunters used to scourge the statue of the god if they had been disappointed
in the chase. During the heat of midday he used to slumber, and was very indignant
when any one disturbed him. As the god of flocks, bees also were under his protection,
as well as the coast where fishermen carried on their pursuit. As the god of everything
connected with pastoral life, he was fond of music, and the inventor of the syrinx
or shepherd's flute, which he himself played in a masterly manner, and in which
he instructed others also, such as Daphnis. He is thus said to have loved the
poet Pindar, and to have sung and danced his lyric songs, in return for which
Pindar erected a sanctuary to him in front of his house.
Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by travellers,
to whom he sometimes appeared, and whom he startled with sudden awe or terror.
Thus, when Phidippides, the Athenian, was sent to Sparta to solicit its aid against
the Persians, Pan accosted him, and promised to terrify the barbarians if the
Athenians would worship him. Hence, sudden fright without any visible cause was
ascribed to Pan, and was called a Panic fear (panikon deima). He is further said
to have had a terrible voice, and by it to have frightened the Titans in their
fight with the gods. It seems that this feature--namely, his fondness of noise
and riot-- was the cause of his being considered the minister and companion of
Cybele and Dionysus. He was at the same time believed to be possessed of prophetic
powers, and to have even instructed Apollo in this art. While roaming in the forests,
he fell in love with the nymph Echo, by whom, or by Pitho, he became the father
of Iynx. His love of Syrinx, after whom he named his flute, is well known from
Ovid. Fir-trees (pitues) were sacred to him, since the nymph Pitys, whom he loved,
had been metamorphosed into that tree; and the sacrifices offered to him consisted
of cows, rams, lambs, milk, and honey. Sacrifices were also offered to him in
common with Dionysus and the nymphs. The various epithets which are given him
by the poets refer either to his singular appearance, or are derived from the
names of the places in which he was worshipped. The Romans identified with Pan
their own god Inuus, and also Faunus, which name is merely another form of Pan.
In works of art Pan is represented as a voluptuous and sensual being, with horns,
snub-nose, and goat's feet, sometimes in the act of dancing, and sometimes playing
on the syrinx. His attendant deities or demons were known as Panes or Panisci
(Paniskoi). Famous representations of Pan in sculpture are the so-called Barberini
Faun at Munich, the Dancing Pan at Naples, and the Pan (or Faun) of Praxiteles
at Rome, which suggested to Hawthorne his famous romance, The Marble Faun. In
English literature, besides this romance, Pan is the subject of Landor's Pan and
Pitys, Cupid and Pan, Buchanan's Pan, Browning's Pan and Luna, and Swinburne's
Pan and Thalassius.
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LETRINI (Ancient city) PYRGOS
Alphaea, Alpheaea, or Aalpeiusa (Alphaia, Alpheaia, or Alpheiousa, a surname of
Artemis, which she derived from the river god Alpheius, who loved her, and under
which she was worshipped at Letrini in Elis (Paus. vi. 22.5; Strab. viii.), and
in Ortygia. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. ii. 12, Nem. i. 3).
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Cordaca (Kordaka), a surname of Artemis in Elis, derived from an indecent dance called ko/rdac, which the companions of Pelops are said to have performed in honour of the goddess after a victory which they had won. (Paus. vi. 22.1)
EPII LAND (Ancient country) ILIA
[...] but when the Epeians met them with arms, and it was found that the two forces were evenly matched, Pyraechmes the Aetolian and Degmenus the Epeian, in accordance with an ancient custom of the Greeks, advanced to single combat. Degmenus was lightly armed with a bow, thinking that he would easily overcome a heavy-armed opponent at long range, but Pyraechmes armed himself with a sling and a bag of stones, after he had noticed his opponent's ruse (as it happened, the sling had only recently been invented by the Aetolians); and since the sling had longer range, Degmenus fell, and the Aetolians drove out the Epeians and took possession of the land;
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FIGALIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Of Phigalia: husband of Hagnagora, sister of Aristomenes.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Son of Gargettus.
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Eumantis, an Eleian of the house of the Iamidae, whom Cresphontes had brought to Messene. (Paus. 4.16.1)
There also came to him an oracle from Delphi, that he should bring in as co-founder "the descendant of Pelops." Oxylus made diligent search, and in his search he discovered Agorius, son of Damasius, son of Penthilus, son of Orestes. He brought Agorius himself from Helice in Achaia, and with him a small body of Achaeans. (Paus. 5.4.3)
Later on Iphitus, of the line of Oxylus and contemporary with Lycurgus, who drew up the code of laws for the Lacedaemonians, arranged the games at Olympia and reestablished afresh the Olympic festival and truce, after an interruption of uncertain length. The reason for this interruption I will set forth when my narrative deals with Olympia. At this time Greece was grievously worn by internal strife and plague, and it occurred to Iphitus to ask the god at Delphi for deliverance from these evils. The story goes that the Pythian priestess ordained that Iphitus himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic games. Iphitus also induced the Eleans to sacrifice to Heracles as to a god, whom hitherto they had looked upon as their enemy. The inscription at Olympia calls Iphitus the son of Haemon, but most of the Greeks say that his father was Praxonides and not Haemon, while the ancient records of Elis traced him to a father of the same name.(Paus. 5.4.5)
Iphitus, of the line of Oxylus and contemporary with Lycurgus, who drew up the code of laws for the Lacedaemonians, arranged the games at Olympia and reestablished afresh the Olympic festival and truce, after an interruption of uncertain length. The reason for this interruption I will set forth when my narrative deals with Olympia. At this time Greece was grievously worn by internal strife and plague, and it occurred to Iphitus to ask the god at Delphi for deliverance from these evils. The story goes that the Pythian priestess ordained that Iphitus himself and the Eleans must renew the Olympic games. Iphitus also induced the Eleans to sacrifice to Heracles as to a god, whom hitherto they had looked upon as their enemy. The inscription at Olympia calls Iphitus the son of Haemon, but most of the Greeks say that his father was Praxonides and not Haemon, while the ancient records of Elis traced him to a father of the same name.(Paus. 5.4.5)
Oxylus is said to have had two sons, Aetolus and Laias. Aetolus died before his parents, who buried him in a tomb which they caused to be made right in the gate leading to Olympia and the sanctuary of Zeus. That they buried him thus was due to an oracle forbidding the corpse to be laid either without the city or within it. Right down to our own day the gymnasiarch sacrifices to Aetolus as to a hero every year.(Paus. 5.4.4)
Aetolus. A son of Oxylus and Pieria, and brother of Laias. He died at a tender age, and his parents were enjoined by an oracle to bury him neither within nor without the town of Elis. They accordingly buried him under the gate at which the road to Olympia commenced. The gymnasiarch of Elis used to offer an annual sacrifice on his tomb as late as the time of Pausanias. (v. 4.2)
KYLLINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Pulydamas stripped Otus of Cyllene, comrade of Phyleides.
LOUVRO (Village) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Founds temple of Aesculapius.
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PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
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Alcathous, (Alkathoos). The son of Pelops and Hippodamia, who obtained as his wife Evaechme, the daughter of Megareus, by slaying the Cithaeronian lion, and succeeded his father-in-law as king of Megara. He restored the walls of Megara, which is therefore sometimes called Alcathoe by the poets. In this work he was assisted by Apollo. The stone upon which the god used to place his lyre while he was at work was believed, even in late times, to give forth a sound, when struck, similar to that of a lyre.
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Myrtilus, (Murtilos). Son of Hermes, by Cleobule or Myrto. He was the charioteer of Oenomaus, whose defeat by Pelops in the race was due to his treachery. When he demanded the reward that had been settled, the half of the realm of Oenomaus, Pelops threw him into the sea near Geraestus, in Euboea, and that part of the Aegean was thence called the Myrtoan Sea. He was placed among the stars as the constellation Auriga.
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Charioteer of Pelops, his tomb.
Chrysippus (Chrusippos). A son of Pelops, carried off by Laius. This circumstance became a theme with many ancient writers, and hence the story assumed different shapes, according to the fancy of those who handled it. The death of Chrysippus was also related in different ways. According to the common account, he was slain by Atreus, at the instigation of his step-mother, Hippodamia.
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Chrysippus (Chrusippos), a son of Pelops by the nymph Axioche or by Danaiis (Plut. Parall.
Hist. Gr. et Rom. 33), and accordingly a stepbrother of Alcathous, Atreus, and
Thyestes. While still a boy, he was carried off by king Laius of Thebes, who instructed
him in driving a chariot (Apollod. iii. 5.5). According to others, he was carried
off by Theseus during the contests celebrated by Pelops (Hygin. Feb. 271); but
Pelops recovered him by force of arms. His step-mother Hippodamieia hated him,
and induced her solns Atreus and Thyestes to kill him; whereas, according to another
tradition, Chrysippus was killed by his either Pelops himself (Paus. vi. 20.4;
Hygin. Flb. 85; Schol. ad Thuc. i. 9). A second mythical Chrysippus is mentioned
by Apollodorus (ii. 1.5).
Hippalcmus, (Hippalkmos), the name of two mythical personages, the one a son of Pelops and Hippodameia, and the other an Argonaut. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. i. 144; Hygin. Fab. 14.)
VOUPRASSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Amarynceus, besides being a good soldier, had a father, Pyttius, of Thessalian descent, who came from Thessaly to Elis.(Paus, 5.1.11)
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Daughter of Augeias, mother of Thestalus by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.8
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Others with greater probability say that Endymion took a wife Asterodia (Paus. 5.1.4)
others say she (wife of Endymion) was Cromia, the daughter of Itonus, the son of Amphictyon; (Paus. 5.1.4)
others again, (say that Endymion took a wife) Hyperippe, the daughter of Arcas (Paus. 5.1.4)
Daughter of Endymion (Paus. 5.1,4)
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Hippodamia, (Hippodameia). A daughter of Oenomaus, king of Pisa,
in Elis, who married Pelops, son of Tantalus.
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SALMONI (Ancient city) ILIA
Stepmother of Pelias and Neleus, attacked by them, takes refuge in a precinct of Hera, cut down by Pelias.
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
For the sons of Actor married twin sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus; Amphimachus was born to one son and Theronice, Thalpius to her sister Theraephone and Eurytus. (Paus. 5.3.3)
For the sons of Actor married twin sisters, the daughters of Dexamenus who was king at Olenus; Amphimachus was born to one son and Theronice (Paus. 5.3.3)
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Daughter of Asopus, beloved by Ares, mother of Oenomaus.
Harpinna, a daughter of Asopus, from whom the town of Harpina or Harpinna in Elis was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. vi. 21.6.) She became by Ares the mother of Oenomaus. (v. 22.5.)
FIGALIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Son of Lycaon, founds Phigalia.
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
(after Aetolus) The kingdom of the Epeans fell to Eleius, the son of Eurycyda, daughter of Endymion and, believe the tale who will, of Poseidon. It was Eleius who gave the inhabitants their present name of Eleans in place of Epeans. Eleius had a son Augeas (Paus. 5.1.8)
Eleius, a son of Tantalus, from whom the country of Elis was believed to have received its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Elis.)
MINTHI (Mountain) ILIA
Near Pylus, towards the east, is a mountain named after Minthe, who, according to myth, became the concubine of Hades, was trampled under foot by Core, and was transformed into garden-mint, the plant which some call Hedyosmos.
Mintha or Minthe. A daughter of Cocytus, beloved by Hades, and metamorphosed
by Demeter, or Persephone (Proserpina), into a plant called after her mintha,
or mint. A hill near Pylos bore this name, and at its foot was a temple of Pluto
and grove of Demeter.
THISSOA (Ancient city) ANDRITSENA
Nymph, nurse of Zeus.
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Daughter of Epeus and Anaxiroe.
Hyrmine, (Hurmine), a daughter of Neleus, or Nycteus, or, according to others, of Epeius and Anaxiroe. She was the wife of Phorbas, and the mother of Augeas and Actor. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 173; Paus. v. 1.4; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303.) The Argonaut Tiphys is likewise called a son of Phorbas and Hyrmine. (Hygin. Fab. 14.)
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Eleius (Eleios), a son of Poseidon and Eurydice, the daughter of Endymion, was king of the Epeians and father of Augeas. (Paus. v. 1.6, &c.)
Polyxenus came back safe from Troy and begat a son, Amphimachus. This name I think Polyxenus gave his son because of his friendship with Amphimachus, the son of Cteatus, who died at Troy. Amphimachus begat Eleius (Paus. 5.3.4)
Amphimachus begat Eleius, and it was while Eleius was king in Elis that the assembly of the Dorian army under the sons of Aristomachus took place, with a view to returning to the Peloponnesus. (Paus. 5.3.5)
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