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ICHALIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
Oichalia, Eth. Oichalieus. In Messenia, in the plain of Stenyclerus.
It was in ruins in the time of Epaminondas (Paus. iv. 26. § 6), and its position
was a matter of dispute in later times. Strabo identified it with Andania, the
ancient residence of the Messenian kings, and Pausanias with Carnasium, which
was only 8 stadia distant from Andania, and upon the river Charadrus. Carnasium,
in the time of Pausanias, was the name given to a grove of cypresses, in which
were statues of Apollo Carneius, of Hermes Criophorus, and of Persephone. It was
here that the mystic rites of the great goddesses were celebrated, and that the
urn was preserved containing the bones of Eurytus, the son of Melaneus.
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
PTELEOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
A town of Triphylia, in Elis, belonging to Nestor (Hom. Il. ii. 594), is said
by Strabo to have been a colony from the Thessalian Pteleum. This town had disappeared
in Strabo's time; but its uninhabited woody site was still called Pteleasimum.
PYRGOS (Ancient city) TRIFYLIA
Purgos, Purgoi, Eth. Purgites. The most southerly town of Triphylia
in Elis, at the mouth of the river Neda, upon the Messenian frontier (Strab. viii.
p. 348), and hence described by Stephanus B. as a Messenian town. It was one of
the settlements of the Minyae. (Herod. iv. 148.) It opened its gates to Philip
in the Social War. (Polyb. iv. 77, 80.) Leake places Pyrgi at some ancient remains
upon the right bank of the Neda, not far from its mouth. (Morea, vol. i. p. 57,
vol. ii. p. 207.)
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
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
Triphylia (Triphulia) is the smallest of the three divisions of Elis,
and contains only a very small portion of level land, as the Arcadian mountains
here approach almost close to the sea. Along nearly the whole of the Triphylian
coast there is a series of lagoons already mentioned. At a later time the Alpheius
was the northern boundary of Triphylia; but at an earlier period the territory
of the Pisatis must have extended south of the Alpheius, though all its chief
towns lay to the north of that river. The. mountain along the southern side of
the Alpheius immediately opposite Olympia was called originally Ossa (Strab. viii.
p. 356), but appears to have been afterwards called Phsellon (Strab. viii. p.
344, where Phellona should probably be read instead of Pholoen). Further south
are two ranges of mountains, between which the river Anigrus flows into the sea:
of these the more northerly, called in ancient times Lapithas (Lapithas, Paus.
v. 5. § 8), and at present Smerna, is 2533 feet high; while the more southerly,
called in ancient times, Minthe (Minthe, Strab. viii. p. 344), and now Alvena
rises to the height of 4009 feet. Minthe, which is the loftiest mountain in Elis,
was one of the seats of the worship of Hades; and the herb, fromw hich it derived
its name. was sacred to Persephone. The river Neda divided Triphylia from Messenia.
This extract 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
ICHALIA (Ancient city) MESSINIA
A town in Messenia, on the frontier of Arcadia.
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
The southern portion of Elis, lying between the Alpheus and the Neda, and said to have derived its name from the three different tribes by which it was peopled. Its chief town was Pylos.
The Triphylians were so called from the fact that three tribes of people had come together in that country--that of the Epeians, who were there at the outset, and that of the Minyans, who later settled there, and that of the Eleians, who last dominated the country.
TRIFYLIA (Ancient area) MESSINIA
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