37°30′32″N 21°48′22″E / 37.5088°N 21.8062°E Typaneae or Typaniai (Ancient Greek: Τυπανέαι,[1][2] Τυμπανέαι,[3] or Τυμπάνεια[4]), also Latinized as Tympaneae, was a town of Triphylia in ancient Elis, a possible successor settlement to Homeric Aepy.[5][6] It is mentioned by Strabo along with Hypana near the rivers Dalion and Acheron, tributaries of Alpheus.[3] It was taken by Philip V of Macedon in the Social War.[1] It was situated in the mountains in the interior of the country.
Its site has been located near modern Vresto,[7][8] though other writers disagree and propose other locations.[9]
References
- 1 2 Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 4.77-79.
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 8.3.15. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ↑ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.16.18.
- ↑
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Typanaea". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. - ↑ Platiana
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ It has been suggested by Juan José Torres Esbarranch that it can be identified with remains, among which there is a theatre, located on a hill 5 km (3 mi) from the modern town of Platiana (Juan José Torres Esbarranch (2001). Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X (in Spanish). Madrid: Gredos. p. 59, n. 160. ISBN 84-249-2298-0.), but the Greek Ministry of Culture proposes that these remains could have belonged to the ancient Hypana. (Page of the Ministry of Culture of Greece: the acropolis of Platiana (in Greek))
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