Rhypes
Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Rhypes (Ancient Greek: Ῥύπες), or Rhypae or Rhypai (Ῥύπαι)[1] was a polis (city-state)[2] of ancient Achaea, 30 stadia west of Aegium, and was one of the original twelve Achaean cities.[3] It had ceased to be a member of the Achaean League in the time of Polybius, who mentions Leontium in its place.[4] Rhypes, however, continued to exist down to the time of Augustus; but this emperor destroyed the city and transferred its inhabitants to Patrae, and its territory (Ῥυπίς, or ἡ Ῥυπική) was divided between Aegium and Pharae.[5] Its ruins were seen by Pausanias, in the 2nd century, at a short distance from the main road from Aegium to Patrae.[6] We learn from Strabo that this town was mentioned by Aeschylus as κεραυνίας Ῥύπας, or "Rhypes stricken by the thunderbolt." It was the birthplace of Myscellus, the founder of Croton.[7]
In the territory of Rhypes there was a suburb called Leuctrum (Λεῦκτρον),[7] and also a seaport named Erineum (Ἐρινεόν or Ἐρινεὸς λιμήν) which is mentioned by Thucydides,[8] and which is described by Pausanias as 60 stadia from Aegium.[9][10]
The site of Rhypes is located south of modern Koumari.[11][12]
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