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,[1] is placed by Pliny the Elder on the Corinthian Gulf.[2] 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.[3]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Magoula/Aitolikon.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.639.
  2. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.3.
  3. ↑ scopulosa Pylene, Stat. Theb. 4.102; Strabo 10.2.6; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. ↑ 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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