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Ancient Elis

Elis (/ˈlɪs/[1]) or Eleia /ɪˈl.ə/ (Greek: Ήλιδα, romanizedIlida, Attic Greek: Ἦλις, romanized: Ēlis /ɛ̂ːlis/; Elean: Ϝᾶλις /wâːlis/, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι[2]) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis.

Elis
Ἦλις
Region of Ancient Greece
Ruins of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
LocationPeloponnese
Major citiesElis, Olympia
DialectsDoric
Ancient regions of Peloponnese (southern mainland Greece)
Ancient Peloponnese states (interactive version)

Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea. Over the course of the archaic and classical periods, the polis "city-state" of Elis controlled much of the region of Elis, most probably through unequal treaties with other cities; many inhabitants of Elis were Perioeci—autonomous free non-citizens. Perioeci, unlike other Spartans, could travel freely between cities.[3] Thus the polis of Elis was formed.

The local form of the name was Valis, or Valeia, and its meaning, in all probability was, "the lowland" (compare with the word "valley").[4] In its physical constitution Elis is similar to Achaea and Arcadia; its mountains are mere offshoots of the Arcadian highlands, and its principal rivers are fed by Arcadian springs.[5]

According to Strabo,[6] the first settlement was created by Oxylus the Aetolian who invaded there and subjugated the residents. The city of Elis underwent synoecism—as Strabo notes—in 471 BC.[7] Elis held authority over the site of Olympia and the Olympic games.

The spirit of the games had influenced the formation of the market: apart from the bouleuterion, the place the boule "citizen's council" met, which was in one of the gymnasia, most of the other buildings were related to the games, including two gymnasia, a palaestra, and the House of the Hellanodikai.[citation needed]

History edit

Early history edit

The original inhabitants of Elis were called Caucones and Paroreatae. They are mentioned by Homer[8] for the first time in Greek history under the title of Epeians (Epeii), as setting out for the Trojan War, and they are described by him as living in a state of constant hostility with their neighbours the Pylians. At the close of the 11th century BC the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese, and Elis fell to the share of Oxylus and the Aetolians.[5]

These people, amalgamating with the Epeians, formed a powerful kingdom in the north of Elis. After this many changes took place in the political distribution of the country, till at length it came to acknowledge only three tribes, each independent of the others. These tribes were the Epeians, Minyae and Eleans. Before the end of the 8th century BC, however, the Eleans had vanquished both their rivals, and established their supremacy over the whole country. Among the other advantages which they thus gained was the right of celebrating the Olympic games, which had formerly been the prerogative of the Pisatans.[5] Olympia was in Elian land, and tradition dates the first recorded games to 776 BC. The Hellanodikai, the judges of the Games, were of Elian origin.[citation needed] The attempts which the Pisatans made to recover their lost privilege, during a period of nearly two hundred years, ended at length in the total destruction of their city by the Eleans. From the time of this event in 572 BC until the Peloponnesian War, the peace of Elis remained undisturbed.[5]

Peloponnesian War and later edit

In the war, Elis sided at first with Sparta. But Sparta, jealous of the increasing prosperity of its ally, availed itself of the first pretext to pick a quarrel. At the Battle of Mantinea (418 BC), the Eleans fought against the Spartans, who later took vengeance upon them by depriving them of Triphylia and the towns of the Acroreia. The Eleans made no attempt to re-establish their authority over these places until Thebes rose in importance after the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC). However, the Arcadian confederacy came to the assistance of the Triphylians. In 366 BC hostilities broke out between them, and though the Eleans were at first successful, they were soon overpowered; their capital very nearly fell into the hands of the enemy,[5] and the territory of Triphylia was permanently ceded to Arcadia in 369 BC.[9] Unable to make headway against their opponents, they applied for assistance to the Spartans, who invaded Arcadia and forced the Arcadians to recall their troops from Elis. The general result of this war was the restoration of their territory to the Eleans, who were also again invested with the right of holding the Olympic games.[5]

During the Macedonian supremacy in Greece they sided with the victors, but refused to fight against their countrymen. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC they renounced the Macedonian alliance. At a subsequent period they joined the Aetolian League. When the whole of Greece fell to Rome, the sanctity of Olympia secured for the Eleans a certain amount of indulgence. The games still continued to attract large numbers of visitors, until they were finally ended by Theodosius in 394 AD, two years before the utter destruction of the country by the Gothic invasion under Alaric I.[5]

Democracy in Elis edit

Elis was a traditional ally of Sparta, but the city state joined Argos and Athens in an alliance against Sparta around 420 BC during the Peloponnesian War. This was due to Spartan support for the independence of Lepreum. As punishment following the surrender of Athens, Elis was forced to surrender Triphylia in 399 BC Eric W. Robinson has argued that Elis was a democracy by around 500 BC, on the basis of early inscriptions which suggest that the people (the dāmos) could make and change laws.[10] Robinson further believes that literary sources imply that Elis continued to be democratic until 365, when an oligarchic faction seems to have taken control (Xen. Hell. 7.4.16, 26).[11]: 29–31  At some point in the mid-fourth century, democracy may have been restored; at least, we hear that a particularly narrow oligarchy was replaced by a new constitution designed by Phormio of Elis, a student of Plato (Arist. Pol. 1306a12-16; Plut. Mor. 805d, 1126c).

The classical democracy at Elis seems to have functioned mainly through a popular Assembly and a Council, the two main institutions of most poleis. The Council initially had 500 members, but grew to 600 members by the end of the fifth century (Thuc. 5.47.9). There was also a range of public officials such as the demiourgoi who regularly submitted to public audits.[11]: 32 

Geography edit

Districts edit

As described by Strabo,[12] Elis was divided into three districts:

  • Koilē (Κοίλη "Hollow", Latinised Coele), or Lowland Elis
  • Pīsâtis (Πισᾶτις "[territory] of Pisa")
  • Triphylia (Τριφυλία Triphūlía "Country of the Three Tribes").

Koilē Elis, the largest and most northern of the three, was watered by the river Peneus and its tributary, the Ladon. The district was famous during antiquity for its cattle and horses. Pisatis extended south from Koilē Elis to the right bank of the river Alpheios, and was divided into eight departments named after as many towns. Triphylia stretched south from the Alpheios to the river Neda.[5]

City edit

The city of Elis (Ancient Greek: Ἦλις) was the capital of the city state of Elis. It was located at the exit of the river Peneios from the mountains into the plain in the area of today's Ilida Municipality north of Kalyvia. It is said to have been founded in 471 BC by synoecism, however it is unclear what the ancient sources mean by this, the city already existed in the same place before and there were separate communities in the region of Elis before and after.[13]

The first excavations in Elis were carried out from 1910 to 1914 by the Austrian Archaeological Institute under the direction of Otto Walter. From 1960 to 1981 the Archaeological Society of Athens carried out further excavations under the direction of Nikolaos Yalouris with Austrian participation.[14] Some of the finds are exhibited in the local archaeological museum founded in 1981, for which a new building was built in 2003.[15]

Nowadays Elis is a small village of 150 citizens located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) NE of Amaliada, built over the ruins of the ancient town. It has one of the most well-preserved ancient theaters in Greece. Built in the fourth century BC, the theater had a capacity of 8,000 people; below it, Early Helladic, sub-Mycenaean and Protogeometric graves have been found.[16][17]

Notable Eleans edit

Athletes

In mythology

Intellectuals

Eleans as barbarians edit

Eleans were labelled as the greatest barbarians barbarotatoi by musician Stratonicus of Athens[19]

And when he was once asked by some one who were the wickedest people, he said, "That in Pamphylia, the people of Phaselis were the worst; but that the Sidetae were the worst in the whole world." And when he was asked again, according to the account given by Hegesander, which were the greatest barbarians, the Boeotians or the Thessalians he said, "The Eleans."

In Hesychius (s.v. βαρβαρόφωνοι) and other ancient lexica,[20] Eleans are also listed as barbarophones. Indeed, the North-West Doric dialect of Elis is, after the Aeolic dialects, one of the most difficult for the modern reader of epigraphic texts.[21]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Wells, John C. (2000) [1990]. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (new ed.). Harlow, England: Longman. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-582-36467-7.
  2. ^ Miller, D. Gary (2014). Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus. De Gruyter. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-61451-295-0.
  3. ^ Roy, J. "The Perioikoi of Elis." The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community. Ed. M.H. Hansen. Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 4. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 75, 1997. 282-32
  4. ^ Smith, William (1854). "Elis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Perseus Digital Library.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Elis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 278.
  6. ^ Strabo Geographica Book 8.3.30
  7. ^ Roy, J. (2002). "The Synoikism of Elis". In Nielsen, T. H. (ed.). Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Stuttgart: Steiner. pp. 249–264. ISBN 3-515-08102-X.
  8. ^ Iliad 2.615
  9. ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edition. Electronic Edition. Author Oxford University Press Volume title Oxford Classical Dictionary - E Volume 05 Editor Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth Publisher InteLex Corp. Publisher location Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Published 2002 Print publisher Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press Print publisher location Oxford: United Kingdom; New York, New York, USA Print volume published 1996
  10. ^ Robinson, Eric W. (1997). The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens. Stuttgart: Steiner. pp. 108–111. ISBN 3-515-06951-8.
  11. ^ a b Robinson, Eric W. (2011). Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84331-7.
  12. ^ Strabo; trans. by H. C. Hamilton & W. Falconer (1856). "Chapter III. GREECE. ELIS.". Geography of Strabo. Vol. II. London: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 7–34.
  13. ^ Hansen, Mogens Herman (1997). "The Polis as an Urban Centre: The Literary and Epigraphical Evidence". In Hansen, Mogens Herman (ed.). The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. p. 39. ISBN 9788773042915.
  14. ^ Donati, Jamieson C. (2015). "8 The Greek Agora in its Peloponnesian Context(s)". In Haggis, Donald; Antonaccio, Carla (eds.). Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World. p. 196.
  15. ^ Matzanas, Christos. "Archaeological Museum of Elis". Odysseus. Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece). Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  16. ^ Koumouzelis, M. (1980). The Early and Middle Helladic Periods in Elis (PhD). Brandeis University. pp. 55–62.
  17. ^ Eder B. 2001, "Die submykenischen und protogeometrischen Graber von Elis", Athens
  18. ^ Smith, William. Ancient Library 2007-09-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  19. ^ Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae, VIII 350a.
  20. ^ Towle, James A. Commentary on Plato: Protagoras, 341c.
  21. ^ Sophie Minon. Les Inscriptions Éléennes Dialectales (VI-II siècle avant J.-C.). Volume I: Textes. Volume II: Grammaire et Vocabulaire Institutionnel. École Pratique des Hautes Études Sciences historiques et philogiques III. Hautes Études du Monde Gréco-Romain 38. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 2007. ISBN 978-2-600-01130-3.

External links edit

  • from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (archived 18 December 2005)
  • Elis – the city of the Olympic games
  • Mait Kõiv, Early History of Elis and Pisa: Invented or Evolving Traditions?

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This article is about the ancient region and city state For the capital city see Elis city For the modern region see Elis regional unit Eleans redirects here For the Greek colony Elea in Italy see Velia For the Greek colony Elaea in Asia see Elaea Aeolis Ilida redirects here For the municipality in Elis regional unit see Ilida municipality Elis ˈ iː l ɪ s 1 or Eleia ɪ ˈ l aɪ e Greek Hlida romanized Ilida Attic Greek Ἦlis romanized Elis ɛ ːlis Elean Ϝᾶlis waːlis ethnonym Ϝᾱleioi 2 is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis Elis ἮlisRegion of Ancient GreeceRuins of the Temple of Zeus OlympiaLocationPeloponneseMajor citiesElis OlympiaDialectsDoricAncient regions of Peloponnese southern mainland Greece Ancient Peloponnese states interactive version Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese bounded on the north by Achaea east by Arcadia south by Messenia and west by the Ionian Sea Over the course of the archaic and classical periods the polis city state of Elis controlled much of the region of Elis most probably through unequal treaties with other cities many inhabitants of Elis were Perioeci autonomous free non citizens Perioeci unlike other Spartans could travel freely between cities 3 Thus the polis of Elis was formed The local form of the name was Valis or Valeia and its meaning in all probability was the lowland compare with the word valley 4 In its physical constitution Elis is similar to Achaea and Arcadia its mountains are mere offshoots of the Arcadian highlands and its principal rivers are fed by Arcadian springs 5 According to Strabo 6 the first settlement was created by Oxylus the Aetolian who invaded there and subjugated the residents The city of Elis underwent synoecism as Strabo notes in 471 BC 7 Elis held authority over the site of Olympia and the Olympic games The spirit of the games had influenced the formation of the market apart from the bouleuterion the place the boule citizen s council met which was in one of the gymnasia most of the other buildings were related to the games including two gymnasia a palaestra and the House of the Hellanodikai citation needed Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 Peloponnesian War and later 1 3 Democracy in Elis 2 Geography 2 1 Districts 2 2 City 3 Notable Eleans 4 Eleans as barbarians 5 Notes 6 External linksHistory editEarly history edit The original inhabitants of Elis were called Caucones and Paroreatae They are mentioned by Homer 8 for the first time in Greek history under the title of Epeians Epeii as setting out for the Trojan War and they are described by him as living in a state of constant hostility with their neighbours the Pylians At the close of the 11th century BC the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese and Elis fell to the share of Oxylus and the Aetolians 5 These people amalgamating with the Epeians formed a powerful kingdom in the north of Elis After this many changes took place in the political distribution of the country till at length it came to acknowledge only three tribes each independent of the others These tribes were the Epeians Minyae and Eleans Before the end of the 8th century BC however the Eleans had vanquished both their rivals and established their supremacy over the whole country Among the other advantages which they thus gained was the right of celebrating the Olympic games which had formerly been the prerogative of the Pisatans 5 Olympia was in Elian land and tradition dates the first recorded games to 776 BC The Hellanodikai the judges of the Games were of Elian origin citation needed The attempts which the Pisatans made to recover their lost privilege during a period of nearly two hundred years ended at length in the total destruction of their city by the Eleans From the time of this event in 572 BC until the Peloponnesian War the peace of Elis remained undisturbed 5 Peloponnesian War and later edit In the war Elis sided at first with Sparta But Sparta jealous of the increasing prosperity of its ally availed itself of the first pretext to pick a quarrel At the Battle of Mantinea 418 BC the Eleans fought against the Spartans who later took vengeance upon them by depriving them of Triphylia and the towns of the Acroreia The Eleans made no attempt to re establish their authority over these places until Thebes rose in importance after the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC However the Arcadian confederacy came to the assistance of the Triphylians In 366 BC hostilities broke out between them and though the Eleans were at first successful they were soon overpowered their capital very nearly fell into the hands of the enemy 5 and the territory of Triphylia was permanently ceded to Arcadia in 369 BC 9 Unable to make headway against their opponents they applied for assistance to the Spartans who invaded Arcadia and forced the Arcadians to recall their troops from Elis The general result of this war was the restoration of their territory to the Eleans who were also again invested with the right of holding the Olympic games 5 During the Macedonian supremacy in Greece they sided with the victors but refused to fight against their countrymen After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC they renounced the Macedonian alliance At a subsequent period they joined the Aetolian League When the whole of Greece fell to Rome the sanctity of Olympia secured for the Eleans a certain amount of indulgence The games still continued to attract large numbers of visitors until they were finally ended by Theodosius in 394 AD two years before the utter destruction of the country by the Gothic invasion under Alaric I 5 Democracy in Elis edit Elis was a traditional ally of Sparta but the city state joined Argos and Athens in an alliance against Sparta around 420 BC during the Peloponnesian War This was due to Spartan support for the independence of Lepreum As punishment following the surrender of Athens Elis was forced to surrender Triphylia in 399 BC Eric W Robinson has argued that Elis was a democracy by around 500 BC on the basis of early inscriptions which suggest that the people the damos could make and change laws 10 Robinson further believes that literary sources imply that Elis continued to be democratic until 365 when an oligarchic faction seems to have taken control Xen Hell 7 4 16 26 11 29 31 At some point in the mid fourth century democracy may have been restored at least we hear that a particularly narrow oligarchy was replaced by a new constitution designed by Phormio of Elis a student of Plato Arist Pol 1306a12 16 Plut Mor 805d 1126c The classical democracy at Elis seems to have functioned mainly through a popular Assembly and a Council the two main institutions of most poleis The Council initially had 500 members but grew to 600 members by the end of the fifth century Thuc 5 47 9 There was also a range of public officials such as the demiourgoi who regularly submitted to public audits 11 32 Geography editDistricts edit As described by Strabo 12 Elis was divided into three districts Koile Koilh Hollow Latinised Coele or Lowland Elis Pisatis Pisᾶtis territory of Pisa Triphylia Trifylia Triphulia Country of the Three Tribes Koile Elis the largest and most northern of the three was watered by the river Peneus and its tributary the Ladon The district was famous during antiquity for its cattle and horses Pisatis extended south from Koile Elis to the right bank of the river Alpheios and was divided into eight departments named after as many towns Triphylia stretched south from the Alpheios to the river Neda 5 City edit The city of Elis Ancient Greek Ἦlis was the capital of the city state of Elis It was located at the exit of the river Peneios from the mountains into the plain in the area of today s Ilida Municipality north of Kalyvia It is said to have been founded in 471 BC by synoecism however it is unclear what the ancient sources mean by this the city already existed in the same place before and there were separate communities in the region of Elis before and after 13 The first excavations in Elis were carried out from 1910 to 1914 by the Austrian Archaeological Institute under the direction of Otto Walter From 1960 to 1981 the Archaeological Society of Athens carried out further excavations under the direction of Nikolaos Yalouris with Austrian participation 14 Some of the finds are exhibited in the local archaeological museum founded in 1981 for which a new building was built in 2003 15 Nowadays Elis is a small village of 150 citizens located 14 kilometres 8 7 mi NE of Amaliada built over the ruins of the ancient town It has one of the most well preserved ancient theaters in Greece Built in the fourth century BC the theater had a capacity of 8 000 people below it Early Helladic sub Mycenaean and Protogeometric graves have been found 16 17 Notable Eleans editAthletes Coroebus of Elis the first victor at the Olympic Games Troilus of Elis 4th century BC equestrianIn mythology Salmoneus Aethlius Pelops mythological kings of Elis Endymion Sons of Endymion Epeius Aetolus Paeon Augeas king of Elis related to the Fifth Labour of Heracles Amphimachus king of Elis and leader of Eleans in the Trojan War Thalpius leader of Eleans in the Trojan War Oxylus king of ElisIntellectuals Alexinus c 339 265 BC philosopher Hippias of Elis Greek sophist Phaedo of Elis founder of the Elean School 18 Pyrrho founder of the Pyrrhonist school of philosophyEleans as barbarians editEleans were labelled as the greatest barbarians barbarotatoi by musician Stratonicus of Athens 19 And when he was once asked by some one who were the wickedest people he said That in Pamphylia the people of Phaselis were the worst but that the Sidetae were the worst in the whole world And when he was asked again according to the account given by Hegesander which were the greatest barbarians the Boeotians or the Thessalians he said The Eleans In Hesychius s v barbarofwnoi and other ancient lexica 20 Eleans are also listed as barbarophones Indeed the North West Doric dialect of Elis is after the Aeolic dialects one of the most difficult for the modern reader of epigraphic texts 21 Notes edit Wells John C 2000 1990 Longman Pronunciation Dictionary new ed Harlow England Longman p 254 ISBN 978 0 582 36467 7 Miller D Gary 2014 Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus De Gruyter p 185 ISBN 978 1 61451 295 0 Roy J The Perioikoi of Elis The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community Ed M H Hansen Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 4 Copenhagen Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Historisk filosofiske Meddelelser 75 1997 282 32 Smith William 1854 Elis Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Perseus Digital Library a b c d e f g h nbsp One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Elis Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 9 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 278 Strabo Geographica Book 8 3 30 Roy J 2002 The Synoikism of Elis In Nielsen T H ed Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Stuttgart Steiner pp 249 264 ISBN 3 515 08102 X Iliad 2 615 Oxford Classical Dictionary third edition Electronic Edition Author Oxford University Press Volume title Oxford Classical Dictionary E Volume 05 Editor Hornblower Simon and Antony Spawforth Publisher InteLex Corp Publisher location Charlottesville Virginia U S A Published 2002 Print publisher Clarendon Press Oxford University Press Print publisher location Oxford United Kingdom New York New York USA Print volume published 1996 Robinson Eric W 1997 The First Democracies Early Popular Government Outside Athens Stuttgart Steiner pp 108 111 ISBN 3 515 06951 8 a b Robinson Eric W 2011 Democracy Beyond Athens Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 84331 7 Strabo trans by H C Hamilton amp W Falconer 1856 Chapter III GREECE ELIS Geography of Strabo Vol II London Henry G Bohn pp 7 34 Hansen Mogens Herman 1997 The Polis as an Urban Centre The Literary and Epigraphical Evidence In Hansen Mogens Herman ed The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters p 39 ISBN 9788773042915 Donati Jamieson C 2015 8 The Greek Agora in its Peloponnesian Context s In Haggis Donald Antonaccio Carla eds Classical Archaeology in Context Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World p 196 Matzanas Christos Archaeological Museum of Elis Odysseus Ministry of Culture and Sports Greece Retrieved 16 July 2021 Koumouzelis M 1980 The Early and Middle Helladic Periods in Elis PhD Brandeis University pp 55 62 Eder B 2001 Die submykenischen und protogeometrischen Graber von Elis Athens Smith William Ancient Library Archived 2007 09 19 at the Wayback Machine Athenaeus Deipnosophistae VIII 350a Towle James A Commentary on Plato Protagoras 341c Sophie Minon Les Inscriptions Eleennes Dialectales VI II siecle avant J C Volume I Textes Volume II Grammaire et Vocabulaire Institutionnel Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Sciences historiques et philogiques III Hautes Etudes du Monde Greco Romain 38 Geneve Librairie Droz S A 2007 ISBN 978 2 600 01130 3 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Elis Map from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture archived 18 December 2005 Elis the city of the Olympic games Mait Koiv Early History of Elis and Pisa Invented or Evolving Traditions Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ancient Elis amp oldid 1182340074, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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