Hypnia (Ancient Greek: Ὑπνία) was a town in Ozolian Locris. Thucydides writes that the during the Peloponnesian War, Hypnia was among the towns of the Ozolian Locris that were forced to provide hostages to the Spartan army under Eurylochus in 426 BCE.[1]

An inscription survives, dated to the year 190 BCE records an agreement of sympoliteia between Hypnia and Myonia, whose clauses mention the establishment of common administrative elements between both cities that would form a small confederation but both would retain their own magistrates and would maintain their own identity.[2]

Its site is tentatively located near modern Kolopetinitsa.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.101.
  2. ↑ José Pascual, La sympoliteia griega en las épocas clásica y helenística, pp.178-179, in Gerión 167 (2007), 25, no. 1, Madrid : Universidad autónoma de Madrid. Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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