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🌍 Pylos (Elis)
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<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>
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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
Pausanias
Strabo
Ovid,
Metamorphoses
Eustathios,
Commentary on Homer's Odyssey
Local traditions reported by
📖 Strabo
8.3.7
Cite as: '🌍 Pylos (Elis) ',
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