Aipy

Aipy or Aepy (Ancient Greek: Αἶπυ) was a city in ancient Elis, Greece.^[1] It was one of the oldest towns in Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in Iliad, as one of the territories ruled by Nestor.^[2] Homer uses the expression "ἐΰκτιτον Αίπυ" (ἐΰκτιτον means "well-built" and Αίπυ, the town's name, means "steep").^[3] It is also quoted in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.^[4] There are those who believe that the name corresponds to the toponym A-pu2 cited in tablets in Linear B.^[5]

Its location is a mystery, which has occupied minds since at least the time of Strabo, who commented it could be considered that Aipy should be identified with a city called Margana or with a natural bastion located near Makistos.^[6] It may the same as the later Epeium, a town of Triphylia, which was located on a mountain, between Macistus and Heraea.^[1] The site of Epeium is tentatively identified with a site near Tripiti.^[7]^[8] Others suggest that Aipy was the later Typaneae, and locate its site between the present villages Platiana and Makistos (both in the municipal unit of Skillounta), where a wall of the ancient acropolis survives into the present, together with a theatre and an agora (market), now entirely in ruins.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aepy". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.592.
^ Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 74, n. 207. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.
^ Homeric Hymn to Apollo 423.
^ José García Blanco; Luis M Macía Aparicio, eds. (1991). Homero, Iliad (in Spanish). Madrid: CSIC. p. 77, & note.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 8.3.24. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Πλατιανα

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[DGRG-1] Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aepy". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

[2] Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.592.

[3] Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 74, n. 207. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.

[4] Homeric Hymn to Apollo 423.

[5] José García Blanco; Luis M Macía Aparicio, eds. (1991). Homero, Iliad (in Spanish). Madrid: CSIC. p. 77, & note.

[6] Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 8.3.24. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[7] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[8] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[9] Πλατιανα

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