Aepeia (Messenia)

Aepeia or Aipeia (Ancient Greek: Αἴπεια) was a town of ancient Messenia. It is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as one of the seven Messenian towns, offered by Agamemnon to Achilles.[1] It is supposed by Strabo to be the same as Thuria,[2] and by Pausanias the same as Corone.[3]

Its site is dependent on which, if either, identification is accepted.

  1. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 9.152.
  2. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 360. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ^ Pausanias (1918). "34.5". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.