Heraclea (Elis)

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Coordinates: 37°41′15″N 21°34′25″E / 37.687483°N 21.573479°E / 37.687483; 21.573479 Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια) was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, distant 40 or 50 stadia from Olympia. It was but a village in the time of Pausanias.[1] It contained medicinal waters issuing from a fountain sacred to the Ionic nymphs, and flowing into the neighbouring stream called Cytherus or , which is the brook near the modern village of Irakleia (formerly called Brouma or Bruma).[2]

The location of Heracleia is near the village of Irakleia.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 6.22.7.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. viii. p.356. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Heracleia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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