Typaneae

37°30′32″N 21°48′22″E / 37.5088°N 21.8062°E / 37.5088; 21.8062 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[edit]

^ ^a ^b Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 4.77-79.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ ^a ^b 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. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ 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))

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

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