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Cyllene (Elis)
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'''Cyllene''' () was a seaport town of [[ancient Elis]], distant 120 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] from the [[Elis (city)|the city of Elis]].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Cyllene was an ancient place. It is mentioned by [[Homer]] as one of the towns of the [[Epeians]];<ref></ref> and if we are to believe [[Dionysius Periegetes]], it was the port from which the Pelasgians sailed to Italy.<ref>[[Dionysius Periegetes]], ''Description of the World'' 347.</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], moreover, mentions it as visited at an early period by the merchants of [[Aegina]],<ref></ref> 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.<ref>, ''et seq.''</ref>
Cyllene was burnt by the [[Corcyraean]]s in 435 BCE, because it had supplied ships to the [[Corinthians]].<ref></ref> It is again mentioned in 429 BCE, as the naval station of the Peloponnesian fleet, when [[Phormion]] commanded an [[ancient Athens|Athenian]] squadron in the [[Corinthian Gulf]].<ref></ref> Its name occurs on other occasions, clearly showing that it was the principal port in this part of Peloponnesus.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> [[Strabo]] describes Cyllene as an inconsiderable village, having an ivory statue of [[Asclepius]] by Colotes, a contemporary of [[Pheidias]].<ref></ref> This statue is not mentioned by Pausanias, who speaks, however, of temples of Asclepius and [[Aphrodite]].<ref></ref>
It is located within the bounds of modern [[Kyllini, Elis|Kyllini]], named after the ancient town.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Elis]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Greece]]
Cyllene was burnt by the [[Corcyraean]]s in 435 BCE, because it had supplied ships to the [[Corinthians]].<ref></ref> It is again mentioned in 429 BCE, as the naval station of the Peloponnesian fleet, when [[Phormion]] commanded an [[ancient Athens|Athenian]] squadron in the [[Corinthian Gulf]].<ref></ref> Its name occurs on other occasions, clearly showing that it was the principal port in this part of Peloponnesus.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> [[Strabo]] describes Cyllene as an inconsiderable village, having an ivory statue of [[Asclepius]] by Colotes, a contemporary of [[Pheidias]].<ref></ref> This statue is not mentioned by Pausanias, who speaks, however, of temples of Asclepius and [[Aphrodite]].<ref></ref>
It is located within the bounds of modern [[Kyllini, Elis|Kyllini]], named after the ancient town.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Populated places in ancient Elis]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Greece]]
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