Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "ANCIENT OLYMPIA Municipality ILIA" .
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
"To Pisa Pelops, son of Tantalus, Borne on swift coursers" (Aristophanes, Frogs)
Euripides, Helen. Also, Iphigenia in Tauris.
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
City of Elis.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Elean village.
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
A town in Elis, its distance from Athens, dear to Zeus, founded by Pisus, ruled by Oenomaus, acquired by Pelops, Pelops returns to, spared by Herakles, boundary, territory, bone of Pelops brought from Pisa to Troy, Pantaleon tyrant of, people of Pisa contend with Arcadians and Eleans for presidency of Olympic games, hold Olympic games, at war with Eleans, Pisa destroyed by Eleans, its site occupied by vineyards, statue of Herakles made by Daedalus at.
ALISSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Aleisium is the present Alesiaeum, a territory in the neighborhood
of Amphidolis, in which the people of the surrounding country hold a monthly market.
It is situated on the mountain road that runs from Elis to Olympia. In earlier
times it was a city of Pisatis, for the boundaries have varied at different times
on account of the change of rulers. The poet also calls Aleisium "Hill of Aleisium,"
when he says:"until we caused our horses to set foot on Buprasium, rich in wheat,
and on the Olenian Rock, and of Aleisium where is the place called Hill". (we
must interpret the words as a case of hyperbaton, that is, as equivalent to "and
where is the place called Hill of Aleisium"). Some writers point also to a river
Aleisius.
AMFIDOLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
As for "well-built Aepy," some raise the question which of the two words is the epithet and which is the city, and whether it is the Margalae of today, in Amphidolia.
Aleisium is the present Alesiaeum, a territory in the neighborhood of Amphidolis
ARPINA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
Near Olympia is Arpina, also one of the eight cities, through which flows the River Parthenias, on the road that leads up to Pheraea.
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) ILIA
Near Salmone is Heracleia, which is also one of the eight cities; it is about forty stadia distant from Olympia and is situated on the Cytherius River, where is the temple of the Ioniades Nymphs, who have been believed to cure diseases with their waters.
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