Cyllène
Cité antique · Grèce
- Abandonné
- inconnu
- Fondé
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordonnées
- 37.941, 21.139
Pourquoi abandonné
🏛️ Ruines antiques
Détecté automatiquement d’après le texte : ancient port town of Eleia
Histoire
Cyllene or Kyllene was a seaport town of ancient Elis, distant 120 stadia from the city of Elis. Cyllene was an ancient place. It is mentioned by Homer as one of the towns of the Epeians; and if we are to believe Dionysius Periegetes, it was the port from which the Pelasgians sailed to Italy. Pausanias, moreover, mentions it as visited at an early period by the merchants of Aegina, and as the port from which the exiled Messenians after the conclusion of the Second Messenian War, sailed away to found a colony in Italy or Sicily.
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