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, is placed by Pliny the Elder on the Corinthian Gulf. 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.
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Magoula/Aitolikon.
References
- ^ 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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