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DRYOPIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
OITI (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
Oeta (Oite: Eth. Oitaios), a mountain in the south of Thessaly, which
branches off from Mt. Pindus,: runs in a south-easterly direction, and forms the
northern barrier of Central Greece. The only entrance into Central Greece from
the north is through the narrow opening left between Mt. Oeta and the sea, celebrated
as the pass of Thermopylae. Mt. Oeta is now called Katavothra, and its highest
summit is 7071 feet. (Journal of Geogr. Soc. vol. vii. p. 94.) The mountain immediately
above Thermopylae is called Callidromon both by Strabo and Livy. (Strab. ix. p.
428; Liv. xxxvi. 15.) The latter writer says that Callidromon is the highest summit
of Mt. Oeta; and Strabo agrees with him in describing the summit nearest to Thermopylae
as the highest part of the range; but in this opinion they were both mistaken,
Mt. Patriotiko, which lies more to the west, being considerably higher. Strabo
describes the proper Oeta as 200 stadia in length. It is celebrated in mythology
as the scene of the death of Hercules, whence the Roman poets give to this hero
the epithet of Oetaeus. From this mountain the southern district of Thessaly was
called Oetaea (Oitaia, Strab. ix. pp. 430, 432, 434), and its inhabitants Oetaei
(Oitaioi, Herod. vii. 217; Thuc. iii. 92; Strab. ix. p. 416). There was also a
city, Oeta, said to have been founded by Amphissus, son of Apollo and Dryope (Anton.
Liberal. c. 32), which Stephanus B. (s. v.) describes as a city of the Malians.
Leake places it at the foot of Mt. Patriotiko, and conjectures that it was the
same as the sacred city mentioned by Callimachus. (Hymn. in Del. 287.) (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 4, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
XYNIA (Ancient city) YPATI
Xyniae (Xunia: Eth. Xunieus). A town near the southern confines of
Thessaly, and the district of the Aenianes (Liv. xxxiii. 3), which gave its name
to the lake Xynias (Xunias), which Stephanus confounds with the Boebeis (Apollon.
Rhod. i. 67; Catull. lxiii. 287; Steph. B. s. v. Xunia). Xynia, having been deserted
by its inhabitants, was plundered by the Aetolians in B.C. 198 (Liv. xxxii. 13).
In the following year Flamininus arrived at this place in three days' march from
Heraclea (Liv. xxxiii. 3; comp. Liv. xxxix. 26). The lake of Xynias is now called
Taukli, and is described as 6 miles in circumference. The site of the ancient
city is marked by some remains of ruined edifices upon a promontory or peninsula
in the lake. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 460, vol. iv. p. 517.)
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YPATI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
he Hupate, ta Hupata: Eth. Hupataios, Hypataeus, also Hupateus. The
chief town of the Aenianes, in the valley of the Spercheius, and at the foot of
Mt. Oeta. In the Roman wars in Greece it belonged to the Aetolian league. (Polyb.
xx. 9, 11, xxi. 2, 3; Liv. xxxvi. 14, 26.) The women of Hypata, as of many other
Thessalian towns, were noted for their skill in magic; and it was here that Lucius,
in the story of Lucian, was metamorphosed into an ass. (Lucian, Asin. 1, seq.;.
comp. Apul. Metam. i. p. 104; Theophr. H. Plant. ix. 2.) The town is mentioned
by Hierocles in the 6th century. (Hierocl. p. 642, ed. Wess.; comp. Ptol. iii.
13. § 45.) It occupied the site of the modern Neopatra, where inscriptions have
been discovered containing the name of Hypata. The town appears to have been called
Neae Patrae in the middle ages, and is mentioned in the 12th century as a strongly
fortified place. (Niceph. Gregor. iv. 9. p. 112, ed. Bonn.) There are still considerable
remains of the ancient town. Leake observed many large quadrangular blocks of
stones and foundations of ancient walls on the heights of Neopatra, as well as
in the buildings of the town. In the metropolitan church he noticed a handsome
shaft of white marble, and on the outside of the wall an inscription in small
characters of the best times. He also discovered an inscription on a broken block
of white marble, lying under a plane-tree near a fountain in the Jewish burying-ground.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 14, seq.)
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OITI (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
or Oete (Oite). Now Katavothra; a rugged pile of mountains in
the south of Thessaly, an eastern branch of Mount Pindus, extending along the
southern bank of the Sperchius to the Maliac Gulf at Thermopylae, thus forming
the northern barrier of Greece proper. Respecting the pass of Mount Oeta, see
Thermopylae. Oeta was celebrated in mythology as the mountain on which Heracles
burned himself to death. From this range, the southern part of Thessaly was called
Oetaea (Oitaia).
ARGYROCHORI (Village) YPATI
MESSOCHORI (Village) YPATI
Total results on 25/4/2001: 159 for Oeta, 2 for Oete, 18 for Mt;Oeta.
OITI (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
A gigantic limestone wall (Sion) that runs ca. 15 km in a SE direction
parallel to Mt. Othrys and forms the S boundary of the Valley of the Spercheios.
It has two peaks, Oeta proper (2116 m) and Pyrgos (2153 m). Several massifs can
be discerned in the chalk face which rises S of Lamia and measures altogether
35 km from Liascovo to above Thermopylai. Mt. Oeta can be crossed by byroads,
as Strabo says (9.4.14), either W of Hypati, whence the summit can be reached
in 6 hours, or else by way of the valley of the Asopos and Mavrolithari. M. Acilius
Glabrio's action in 191 B.C. provides a clear example: after taking Heraklea he
advanced into the interior of Mt. Oeta and sacrificed at Herakles' funeral pyre.
The legend states, that after defeating Eurytos and seizing Oechalia, Herakles
wished to sacrifice to Zeus and sent his faithful companion, Lichas, to ask Deinaira
for a fresh garment. Deinaira then learned that Herakles, who was madly in love
with Iole, Eurytos' daughter, was in danger of forgetting her, and she stained
the tunic in the blood of Nessos the centaur. This was supposed to be a love potion,
but in fact it was a poison that devoured Herakles' flesh. Deinaira killed herself
at Trachis. Herakles, for his part, entrusted Iole to Lichas' care, then left
Trachis and had a funeral pyre built for himself on Mt. Oeta. Philoktetes finally
set it alight. During the fire thunder was heard: it was Zeus summoning Herakles
up to Olympos.
The site of the pyre was discovered in 1919-21, 1800 m up the mountainside
and a 2-hour journey from Pavliani, less than an hour from Trachis. One can see
the hexagonal-shaped funeral pyre (15-20 m each side) as well as a little Doric
temple and the remains of small monuments. 150 m from the pyre is a stoa (32.5
x 5 m deep) where the faithful and priests could take shelter from storms, which
are frequent in the region. Finally, a small monument may possibly be a Philokteteion:
the hero Philoktetes is said to have consecrated near the funeral pyre his offering
of part of the booty he had seized after the sack of Troy (Soph. Phil. 1431-33).
Archaeological finds are at the Thebes museum in Boiotia.
Y. Bequignon, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
YPATI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
A city of Ainis, which first appears when it issued coinage of the
Ainianes ca. 400-344 B.C.; from 302 B.C. it was in the Aitolian League. In 191
B.C. it was an Aitolian strong point and its territory laid waste by M' Acilius
Glabrio. It remained with the Aitolians after 189 B.C., but after 168 B.C. was
part of the free League of Ainis, which was finally joined to Thessaly by Augustus
in 27 B.C. (Livy 28.5.15; 36.14.15, 16.4, 26.1, 27.4, 28.8, 29.5; Polyb. 20.9.6,
10.13, 11.5; Livy 37.6.2, 7.1; Polyb. 21.2.7, 3.7, 3.13). The city prospered in
the Roman Imperial period (Apul., Met. 1.5) and was the site of a bishopric in
Christian times. It came to be known as Neai Patrai, an important mediaeval city.
Hypata is located above the Spercheios valley, on the N slope of Oeta,
on a hillside flanked on the W by the Xerias river and on the E by a ravine. The
acropolis hill is a small, rocky peak (661 m) which falls away steeply on all
sides. It is connected to the main mass of Oeta to the S by a narrow saddle. A
road led S over Oeta to Kallipolis. On the acropolis are some remains of the ancient
wall circuit, although these have largely disappeared under later Byzantine and
Frankish walls. Stahlin saw some of the ancient wall on the S side with a gate
giving on the saddle which connects the hill to Oeta. The wall was ca. 4 m thick,
of good 4th-3d c. B.C. masonry. Bequignon noted an ancient Hellenic wall inside
the acropolis on the SE side at right angles to the circuit wall, perhaps the
foundation of some building. modern Hypati is set on a terrace on the steep N
face of the hillside, below the acropolis. It occupies the site of the ancient
city. Stahlin saw traces of the ancient city walls on the N and E sides of this
terrace. Inscriptions and various ancient blocks have been built into the modern
houses. Bequignon saw a marble head and a mutilated relief, and other pieces of
sculpture have been seen. In 1921 a late Roman (?) mosaic was found near the church
of Haghios Nikolaus in the town. Graves have been discovered in the vicinity,
particularly outside the city to the W. At the beginning of the century Giannopoullos
reported an ancient Greek naiskos at Rigoziano (Rogozinon) on the left bank of
the Xerias opposite Hypata's acropolis; this has apparently not been checked since.
Several inscriptions exist relative to Hypata's boundaries (see Stahlin) which
included a considerable amount of the river plain.
T. S. Mackay, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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