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OLENOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Olenos: Eth. olenios. An ancient town in the S. of Aetolia, between
the Achelous and the Evenus, was named after a son of Zeus or Hephaestus, and
is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue. It was situated near New Pleuron, at the
foot of Mount Aracynthus; but its exact site is uncertain. It is said to have
been destroyed by the Aeolians; and there were only a few traces of it in the
time of Strabo. (Strab.x. pp. 451, 460; Horn. Il. ii. 638; Apollod. i.8. § 4;
Hyg. Poet. Astron. 2. § 13; Stat. Theb. iv. 104; Steph. B. s. v.) The Roman poets
use Olenius as equivalent to Aetolian: thus Tydeus of Calydon in Aetolia is called
Olenius Tydeus. (Stat. Theb. i. 402.)
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
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