Name of a city.
*ai)/peia: o)/noma po/lews.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. registers three poleis of this name, in 'Lakonike',
Cyprus and Crete. The first of them is most likely to have generated this Suda entry and its counterparts (
Hesychius alpha2045;
Ambrosian Lexicon 320, according to Adler; and
Etymologicum Magnum 37.38), given its mention in
Homer: at
Iliad 9.152 (again 294) it is one of the seven named
ptoliethra given by Agamemenon to appease Achilles.
That they are all described as being 'near sandy
Pylos' places them not in Argos [
Myth,
Place] (
Hesychius) or Laconia (Steph.Byz.) but
Messenia, in the SW Peloponnese. As to Aipeia itself, specifically,
Strabo 8.4.5 noted identifications of it with Thouria or
Methone/Mothone (
mu 1189), while in
Pausanias 4.34.5 it is
Korone.
See Graham Shipley, '
Messenia' in Hansen & Nielsen 540-568, at 552 and (twice) 555.
M.H. Hansen & T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
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