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ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
A town mentioned by Homer as belonging to the dominions of Nestor.
and situated near the spot where the Minyeius flows into the sea. (Hom. Il. ii.
591, xi. 723.) It also occurs in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (423), in conjunction
with other towns on the western coast of Peloponnesus. According to Pausanias
(iv. 2. § 4, 3. § 7), it was built by Aphareus, who called it after Arene, both
his wife and his sister by the same mother. It was commonly supposed in later
times that Arene occupied the site of Samos or Samia in Triphylia, near the mouth
of the Anigrus, which was believed to be the same as the Minyeius. (Strab. viii.
p. 346; Paus. v. 6. § 2.)
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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