37°56′05″N 21°08′42″E / 37.9346907°N 21.1449975°E Cyllene or Kyllene ( Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη) was a seaport town of ancient Elis, distant 120 stadia from the city of Elis. [1] [2] Cyllene was an ancient place. It is mentioned by Homer as one of the towns of the Epeians; [3] and if we are to believe Dionysius Periegetes, it was the port from which the Pelasgians sailed to Italy. [4] Pausanias, moreover, mentions it as visited at an early period by the merchants of Aegina, [5] and as the port from which the exiled Messenians after the conclusion of the Second Messenian War, sailed away to found a colony in Italy or Sicily. [6]
Cyllene was burnt by the Corcyraeans in 435 BCE, because it had supplied ships to the Corinthians. [7] It is again mentioned in 429 BCE, as the naval station of the Peloponnesian fleet during the Peloponnesian War, when Phormion commanded an Athenian squadron in the Corinthian Gulf. [8] Its name occurs on other occasions, clearly showing that it was the principal port in this part of Peloponnesus. [9] [10] [11] [12] Strabo describes Cyllene as an inconsiderable village, having an ivory statue of Asclepius by Colotes, a contemporary of Pheidias. [13] This statue is not mentioned by Pausanias, who speaks, however, of temples of Asclepius, Aphrodite, and the most venerated, one of Hermes having a Herma (with a carved phallus). [14]
It is located within the bounds of modern Kyllini, named after the ancient town. [15] [16]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cyllene". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
37°56′05″N 21°08′42″E / 37.9346907°N 21.1449975°E Cyllene or Kyllene ( Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη) was a seaport town of ancient Elis, distant 120 stadia from the city of Elis. [1] [2] Cyllene was an ancient place. It is mentioned by Homer as one of the towns of the Epeians; [3] and if we are to believe Dionysius Periegetes, it was the port from which the Pelasgians sailed to Italy. [4] Pausanias, moreover, mentions it as visited at an early period by the merchants of Aegina, [5] and as the port from which the exiled Messenians after the conclusion of the Second Messenian War, sailed away to found a colony in Italy or Sicily. [6]
Cyllene was burnt by the Corcyraeans in 435 BCE, because it had supplied ships to the Corinthians. [7] It is again mentioned in 429 BCE, as the naval station of the Peloponnesian fleet during the Peloponnesian War, when Phormion commanded an Athenian squadron in the Corinthian Gulf. [8] Its name occurs on other occasions, clearly showing that it was the principal port in this part of Peloponnesus. [9] [10] [11] [12] Strabo describes Cyllene as an inconsiderable village, having an ivory statue of Asclepius by Colotes, a contemporary of Pheidias. [13] This statue is not mentioned by Pausanias, who speaks, however, of temples of Asclepius, Aphrodite, and the most venerated, one of Hermes having a Herma (with a carved phallus). [14]
It is located within the bounds of modern Kyllini, named after the ancient town. [15] [16]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cyllene". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.