Echinus (Acarnania)

Epirus in antiquity

Echinus or Echinos (Greek: Εχῖνος) was a town of ancient Acarnania.[1] Legend has it that it was founded by a mythological figure named Echinus.[2] It is mentioned by the poet Rhianus, and appears in the list of cities of Acarnania transmitted by Pliny the Elder,[3] who places it between Heraclea and Actium.

The site of Echinus is near the modern town of Vonitsa, probably the kastro of Profitis Elias.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 359. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. ↑ "Ἐχῖνος, πόλις Ἀκαρνανἰας, Ἐχίνου κτίσμα. Ῥιανὸς Ἐχίονος ἄστυ ταύτην εἶπεν. ὁ πολίτης Ἐχιναῖος ὡς χέρσος χερσαῖος καὶ Ἄπειρος Ἀπειραῖος Κύφος Κυφαῖος. καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐχιναῖος Ἐχιναιεύς ὡς Κρηταῖος Κρηταιεύς. τίνες δὲ Ἐχινοῦντα φασὶ τὴν αὐτήν." Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  3. ↑ "Acarnaniae, quae antea Curetis vocabatur, oppida: Heraclia, Echinus et in ore ipso colony Augusti Actium cum temple Apollinis nobili ac civitate libera Nicopolitana." Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.1.5.
  4. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. ↑ Paula Jean Perlman (2000). City and Sanctuary in Ancient Greece: The Theorodokia in the Peloponnese. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 119. ISBN 3-525-25218-8.

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