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EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Ephyra, Ephure. A town of Elis, situated upon the river Selleeis, and the
ancient capital of Augeias, whom Hercules. conquered. (Hom. Il. ii. 659, xv. 531)
Strabo describes Ephyra as distant 120 stadia, from Elis, on the road to Lasion,
and says that on its site or near it was built the town of Oenoe or Boeonoa. (Strab.
viii. p. 338, where, for the corrupt keimene te epithalassiona, we ought to read,
with Meineke, keimene te epi Lasiona...) Stephanus also speaks of an Ephyra between
Pylos and Elis, Pylos being the town at the junction of the Ladon and the Peneius.
(Steph. B. s. v. Ephura.) From these two accounts there can be little doubt that
the Ladon, the chief tributary of the Peneius, is the Selleeis, which Strabo describes
as rising in Mount Pholoe. Curtius places Ephyra near the modern village of Klisura
which lies on the Ladon, about 120 stadia from Elis, by way of Pylos. Leake supposes,
with much less probability, that the Selleeis is the Peneius, and that Ephyra
was the more ancient name of Elis.
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
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
Pylus (Pulos: Eth. Pulios). A town in hollow Elis, described by Pausanias
as situated upon the mountain road leading from Elis to Olympia, and at the place
where the Ladon flows into the Peneius (vi. 22. § 5). Strabo, in a corrupt passage,
assigns to it the same situation, and places it in the neighbourhood of Scollium
or Mt. Scollis (metaxu tou PeWeiou kai tou Selleentos ekboles /un>[read kai tes
tou Selleentos emboles] Pulos oikeito, Strab. viii. p. 338). Pausanias says that
it was 80 stadia from Elis. Diodorus (xiv. 17) gives 70 stadia as the distance,
and Pliny (iv. 5. s. 6) 12 Roman miles. According to the previous description,
Pylus should probably be identified with the ruins at Agrapidho-khori, situated
on a commanding position in the angle formed by the junction of the Peneius and
Ladon. This site is distant 7 geographical miles from Elis, which sufficiently
agrees with the 80 stadia of Pausanias. Leake, however, places Pylus further S.,
at the ruins at Kulogli, mainly on the ground that they are not so tar removed
from the road between Elis and Olympia. But the fact of the ruins at Agrapidho-khori
being at the junction of the Peneius and Ladon seems decisive in favour of that
position ; and we may suppose that a road ran up the valley of the Peneius to
the junction of the two rivers, and then took a bend to the right into the valley
of the Ladon. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 228, Peloponnesiaca, p. 219;
Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p. 122; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 39.) The Eleian
Pylus is said to have been built by the Pylon, son of Cleson of Megara, who founded
the Messenian Pylus, and who, upon being expelled from the latter place by Peleus,
settled at the Eleian Pylos. (Paus. iv. 36. § 1, vi. 22. § 5.) Pylus was said
to have been destroyed by Hercules, and to have been afterwards restored by the
Eleians ; but the story of its destruction by Hercules more properly belongs to
the Messenian Pylus. Its inhabitants asserted that it was the town which Homer
had in view when he asserted that the Alpheius flowed through their territory
(Alpheiou, host' euru rheei Pulion dia gaies, Il. v. 545). On the position of
the Homeric Pylus we shall speak presently; and we only observe here, that this
claim was admitted by Pausanias (vi. 22. § 6), though its absurdity had been previously
pointed out by Strabo (viii. p. 350, seq.). Like the other Eleian towns, Pylus
is rarely mentioned in history. In B.C. 402 it was taken by the Spartans, in their
invasion of the territory of Elis (Diod. xiv. 17); and in B.C. 366 it is mentioned
as the place where the democratical exiles from Elis planted themselves in order
to carry on war against the latter city. (Xen. Hell. vii. 4. 16) Pausanias saw
only the ruins of Pylus (vi. 22. § 5), and it would appear to have been deserted
long previously.
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
INOI (Ancient city) ILIA
A town of Elis.
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
The name of three towns on the western coast of the Peloponnesus.
(1) In Elis, at the foot of Mount Scollis, and about seventy or eighty stadia
from the city of Elis on the road to Olympia, near the confluence of the Ladon
and the Peneus.
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Ephure. Probably an Aeolic form of Ephora (ephorao, ephoroi), and equivalent to
Epope, 'a watchtower.' This descriptive name was naturally applicable to many
places; and we find no less than eleven of the name enumerated (Pape, Dict.s.v.).
But of these there are but three, or at most four, that come into the Homeric
poems.
(1) The city afterwards called Corinth, Il.2. 570; 6. 152, which of course is
not intended in the present passage:
(2) A town in Thessaly, known in later times as Crannon, cp. Il.13. 301, with
the interpretation of Strabo (9. 442). But for the Ephyra in the Odyssey the question
lies only between
(3) a town in Thesprotia, called later Kichuros ( Il.2. 659), and
(4) an old Pelasgic town in Elis on the river Selleis (Strabo 7. 328; 8. 338).
Nitzsch declares in favour of (3), because in this passage Athena,
in the character of Mentes king of the Taphians, represents Odysseus as having
touched at Taphos on his return (anionta) from Ephyra to Ithaca; and in a direct
line Taphos lies between Thesprotia and Ithaca; but a ship sailing round the Leucadian
promontory to Ithaca would avoid Taphos altogether, and Leucas had not yet been
made into an island by the channel dug across the neck, for Homer calls it akte
epeiroio Od.24. 378.But if, following the Schol. on Ap. Rhod.1. 747, we place
the Taphian isles among the Echinades and so much further S. , we shall get an
equally good argument in favour of the Eleian Ephyra, as Taphos would then lie
between Ephyra and Ithaca. Another argument in favour of the Eleian town is the
mention ( Il.11. 741) of Agamede, daughter of Augeias king of Elis, as a sorceress,
he tosa pharmaka eide hosa trephei eureia chthon, which suits well with the description
here of the androphonon pharmakon and thumophthora pharmaka in Od.2. 329.In the
latter passage, Ephyra is named along with Pylos and Sparta, as if all three places
were in the Peloponnese.
Again, in Il.3. 627, Meges son of Phyleus is said to have been the
leader of the contingent from Dulichium and the Echinades, hai naiousi peren halos
Elidos anta, and in Il.15. 530, Phyleus is described as having bought a corslet,
ex Ephures potamou apo Selleentos. The statement of the Scholiast that Ilus son
of Mermerus was great grandson of Jason and Medea, and was king of Thesprotia,
is given on the authority of Apollodorus. Eustath. also mentions a story which
makes Medea to have lived for a while in Elis; either story doubtless being invented
or acknowledged by those who maintained the claims of the Thesprotian or Eleian
Ephyra respectively. See Buchholz, Hom. Real. 1. 1. p. 90.
PYLOS ILIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
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