Listed 27 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "PATRA Province ACHAIA" .
KAFKONIS (Ancient city) DYMI
When Antimachus calls Dyme "Cauconian," some interpret "Cauconian" as an epithet derived from the Cauconians, since the Cauconians extended as far as Dyme, as I have already said above, but others as derived from a River Caucon.
STRATOS (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Next comes Dyme, a city without a harbor, the farthest of all towards the west, a fact from which it takes its name. But in earlier times it was called Stratos.
FARES (Ancient city) PATRA
Pharae, a city of the Achaeans, belongs to Patrae, having been given
to it by Augustus. The road from the city of Patrae to Pharae is a hundred and
fifty stades, while Pharae is about seventy stades inland from the coast. Near
to Pharae runs the river Pierus, which in my opinion is the same as the one flowing
past the ruins of Olenus, called by the men of the coast the Peirus. Near the
river is a grove of plane-trees, most of which are hollow through age, and so
huge that they actually feast in the holes, and those who have a mind to do so
sleep there as well... I could not discover whether the founder of Pharae was
Phares, son of Phylodameia, daughter of Danais, or someone else with the same
name.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Oct 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ANTHIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
City of Achaia.
ARGYRA (Ancient city) RIO
City of Achaia.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
Old name of Patrae.
ARVA (Ancient city) RIO
City of Achaia.
DREPANO (Village) RIO
Cape in Achaia.
DYMI (Ancient city) PATRA
A town in Achaea, anciently called Palea, annexed by Augustus to Patrae, Aratus defeated by Cleomenes at.
ERINEO (Ancient city) PATRA
Α place in Doris, harbour of E. in Achaia.
ERYMANTHOS (Mountain) ACHAIA
Mount of Arcadia, the boar of, overcome by Herakles, tusks of Erymanthian boar at Cumae, old name of Psophis.
EVRYTIAI (Ancient city) PATRA
City of Achaia.
MESSATIS (Ancient city) PATRA
City of Achaia.
OLENOS (Ancient city) PATRA
City of Achaia, sack of, Herakles goes to Dexamenus at.
PALIA (Ancient city) DYMI
A town in Achaea, anciently called Palea.
PANORMOS (Ancient port) RIO
Harbour of Achaea.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
City of Achaia, founded by Patreus, made Roman colony by Augustus, its extension, cities of Locris made dependent on it by Augustus, its women twice as many as its men, Patreans worship Laphria, help Aetolians against Gauls.
PIRAI (Ancient city) PATRA
City of Achaia.
RION (Ancient city) RIO
Cape in Achaia, Dorians cross to, sacrifice to Poseidon at.
TRITEA (Ancient city) PATRA
City of Achaia, once reckoned to Arcadia.
VOLINA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
City of Achaia.
ARAXOS (Village) PATRA
In the Eleian country, on the north, is a cape, Araxus, sixty stadia distant from Dyme, an Achaean city. This cape, then, I put down as the beginning of the seaboard of the Eleians.
DYMI (Ancient city) PATRA
And he ( Hecataeus of Miletus) says, further, that Dyme is an
Epeian and an Achaean city. However, the early historians say many things that
are not true, because they were accustomed to falsehoods on account of the use
of myths in their writings; and on this account, too, they do not agree with one
another concerning the same things. Yet it is not incredible that the Epeians,
even if they were once at variance with the Eleians and belonged to a different
race, later became united with the Eleians as the result of prevailing over them,
and with them formed one common state; and that they prevailed even as far as
Dyme. For although the poet has not named Dyme, it is not unreasonable to suppose
that in his time Dyme belonged to the Epeians, and later to the Ionians, or, if
not to them, at all events to the Achaeans who took possession of their country.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Dec 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
TEFTHEA (Ancient city) PATRA
The River Caucon empties into another river which is called Teutheas, in the masculine gender; Teutheas has the same name as one of the little towns which were incorporated into Dyme, except that the name of this town, "Teuthea," is in the feminine gender, and is spelled without the s and with the last syllable long.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
However, while they (Peloponneseans) were coasting along their own shore, there were the Athenians sailing along in line with them; and when they tried to cross over from Patrae in Achaea to the mainland on the other side, on their way to Acarnania, they saw them again coming out from Chalcis and the river Evenus to meet them.
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