
Alope () was a town of
Phthiotis
Phthiotis (, ''Fthiótida'' ; ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Φθιῶτις) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece (administrative region), Central Greece. The capital is the city of La ...
in
Ancient Thessaly
Thessaly or Thessalia (Attic Greek: , ''Thessalía'' or , ''Thettalía'') was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece. During the Mycenaean Greece, Mycenaean period, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, a name that continued to be used for one of ...
, placed by
Stephanus of Byzantium
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between
Larissa Cremaste and
Echinus. There was a dispute among the ancient critics whether this town was the same as the Alope in
Homer
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's
Catalog of Ships
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.
Strabo
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distinguishes the town from two others of the same name,
Alope
Alope () was in Greek mythology a mortal woman, the daughter of Cercyon, known for her great beauty.
Mythology
Poseidon, in the guise of a kingfisher, seduced Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to Hi ...
in the area of
Opuntian Locris
Opuntian Locris or Eastern Locris was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek region inhabited by the eastern division of the Locrians, the so-called tribe of the Locri Epicnemidii () or Locri Opuntii (Greek: ).
Geography
Opuntian Locris consisted of ...
and
Alope
Alope () was in Greek mythology a mortal woman, the daughter of Cercyon, known for her great beauty.
Mythology
Poseidon, in the guise of a kingfisher, seduced Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to Hi ...
in that of
Ozolian Locris
Ozolian Locris () or Hesperian Locris () was a region in Ancient Greece, inhabited by the Ozolian Locrians (; ) a tribe of the Locrians, upon the Corinthian Gulf, bounded on the north by Doris, on the east by Phocis, and on the west by Aetolia. ...
. The editors of the ''
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' tentatively locate Alope with the modern village of
Fournoi in the municipality of
Echinaioi.
References
Former populated places in Greece
Populated places in ancient Thessaly
Places in the Iliad
Achaea Phthiotis
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