Aepeia (Messenia)

Aepeia or Aipeia (Ancient Greek: Αἴπεια) was a town of ancient Messenia. It is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven Messenian towns, offered by Agamemnon to Achilles.^[1] It is supposed by Strabo to be the same as Thuria,^[2] and by Pausanias the same as Corone.^[3]

Its site is dependent on which, if either, identification is accepted.

References

^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 9.152.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 360. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Pausanias (1918). "34.5". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aepeia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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