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🌍 Pylos (Elis)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11308240" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11308240">📖 Strabo 8.3.7</span>
  • Information
    city in Elis
    Sometimes conflated with
    🌍 Pylos (Messenia)
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570639
    Founded by
    👤 Pylas
    Ruled by
    👤 Nestor
    Conquered by
    👤 Heracles
    Related entities
    👤 Neleus (Pylian)👤 Pylas🌍 Pylos (Messenia)🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly)👤 Heracles👤 Athena👤 Hades🏺 the Bow of Heracles👤 Nestor🌍 Gerenia (Messenia)👤 Chloris (d. of Amphion)🌍 Orchomenos (Boiotia)🌍 River Anigros (Elis)👤 Telemachos🌍 Elis (region)🌍 Messene (Messenia)🌍 Elis (city)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5📖 Pausanias 5.3.1📖 Pausanias 6.22.5-6.22.6📖 Pausanias 6.25.2-6.25.3📖 Pausanias 6.22.5📖 Pausanias 6.25.2-6.25.4📖 Strabo 8.4.4📖 Strabo 8.3.7📖 Strabo 8.3.19📖 Strabo 8.3.27📖 Strabo 8.3.28-8.3.29📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.676-2.707📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.536-12.579📖 Eustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1394.42-1394.55
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasStraboOvid, MetamorphosesEustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Homer, IliadHomer, Odyssey
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Iliad 5.381-5.415📖 Homer, Iliad 5.541-5.560📖 Homer, Iliad 11.670-11.695📖 Homer, Iliad 11.696-11.710📖 Homer, Iliad 11.711-11.779📖 Homer, Odyssey 1.80-1.95
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Elis (region)🌍 Elis (city)🌍 Pylos (Elis)
    Reported to have local traditions about
    👤 Nestor🌍 Pylos (Elis)
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Strabo 8.3.7
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