Pylene
Pylene (Ancient Greek: Πυλήνη) was a town of ancient Aetolia, between the Acheolous and the Evenus, mentioned in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad,[1] is placed by Pliny the Elder on the Corinthian Gulf.[2] It would therefore seem to have existed in later times. Strabo says that the Aeolians who took Pylene afterwards removed higher up into the country and founded Proschium.[3]
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Magoula/Aitolikon.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.639.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.3.
- ^ scopulosa Pylene, Stat. Theb. 4.102; Strabo 10.2.6; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pylene". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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