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KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
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.
ACHERUSIA (Lake) EPIRUS
Lake in Thesprotis.
KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
In Thesprotia (Paus. 1.17.4)
NIKOPOLIS (Archaeological site) EPIRUS
Near Actium, founded by Augustus, belongs to Amphictyonic League.
ACHERUSIA (Lake) EPIRUS
Acherusia (Acherousia limne or Acherousis), a name given by the ancients to several lakes
or swamps, which, like the various rivers of the name of Acheron, were at some
time believed to be connected with the lower world, until at last the Acherusia
came to be considered to be in the lower world itself. The lake to which this
belief seems to have been first attached was the Acherusia in Thesprotia, through
which the river Acheron flowed (Thuc. i. 46; Strab. vii.). Other lakes or swamps
of the same name, and believed to be in connexion with the lower world, were near
Hermione in Argolis (Paus. ii. 35.7), near Heraclea in Bithynia (Xen. Anab. vi.
2.2; Diod. xiv. 31), bettween Cumae and cape Misenum in Campania (Plin. H. N.
iii. 5; Strab. v.), and lastly in Egypt, near Memphis (Diod. i. 96).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ELATRIA (Ancient city) EPIRUS
Near Cichyrus is Buchetium, a small town of the Cassopaeans, which is only a short distance above the sea; also Elatria, Pandosia, and Batiae, which are in the interior, though their territory reaches down as far as the gulf (Strab. 7,7,5)..
KICHYROS (Ancient city) EPIRUS
Thesprotian Ephyri of Cichyrus, which in earlier times was called Ephyra (Strabo 8.3.5)
VATIES (Ancient city) PREVEZA
Also Elatria, Pandosia, and Batiae, which are in the interior, though their territory reaches down as far as the gulf (Strab. 7,7,5).
VOUCHETION (Ancient city) PREVEZA
Near Cichyrus is Buchetium, a small town of the Cassopaeans, which is only a short distance above the sea.
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