Salmone ( grc, Σαλμώνη) was a town of
ancient Elis.
Strabo indicates that its name derives from a king of
Greek mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of ...
called
Salmoneus
In Greek mythology, Salmoneus (; Ancient Greek: Σαλμωνεύς) was 'the wicked'Hesiod, ''Ehoiai'' fr. 4 as cited in Plutarch, ''Moralia'' p. 747; Scholia on Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 4.263 eponymous king and founder of Salmone in Pisatis.
...
and he locates it in
Pisatis Pisa ( grc, Πῖσα) is a modern village situated to the east of Olympia, Greece. Currently it is not politically independent but is a neighborhood of the village of Archea Olympia, the capital of the Municipality of Ancient Olympia, of which it ...
, of which it was one of its eight towns, near
Heraclea, next to a fountain that bore the same name and that was where the
Enipeus (the modern Lestinitsa) flowed. It was on the road between
Olympia and
Elis
Elis or Ilia ( el, Ηλεία, ''Ileia'') is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it was ...
, and although its exact location is not known for sure it was supposed to be north of the current village of
Karatula, at the source of the Lestinitsa.
References
Populated places in ancient Elis
Former populated places in Greece
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