Salmone (Elis)

Coordinates: 37°41′47″N 21°34′12″E / 37.69636°N 21.56999°E / 37.69636; 21.56999 Salmone (Ancient Greek: Σαλμώνη) was a town of ancient Elis. Strabo indicates that its name derives from a king of Greek mythology called Salmoneus and he locates it in Pisatis, of which it was one of its eight towns, near Heraclea, next to a fountain that bore the same name and that was where the Enipeus (the modern Lestinitsa) flowed.[1] It was on the road between Olympia and Elis, and although its exact location is not known for sure it was supposed to be north of the current village of Karatula,[2] at the source of the Lestinitsa.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Strabo. Geographica. 8.3.31-32. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ↑ Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 93, n. 267. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.
  3. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
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