Hypnia
Appearance
Hypnia(Ancient Greek:Ὑπνία) was a town inOzolian Locris.Thucydideswrites that the during thePeloponnesian War,Hypnia was among the towns of the Ozolian Locris that were forced to provide hostages to theSpartanarmy underEurylochusin 426 BCE.[1]
An inscription survives, dated to the year 190 BCE records an agreement ofsympoliteiabetween Hypnia andMyonia,whose clauses mention the establishment of common administrative elements between both cities that would form a small confederation but both would retain their own magistrates and would maintain their own identity.[2]
Its site is tentatively located near modernKolopetinitsa.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^Thucydides.History of the Peloponnesian War.Vol. 3.101.
- ^José Pascual,La sympoliteia griega en las épocas clásica y helenística,pp.178-179, inGerión167 (2007), 25, no. 1, Madrid: Universidad autónoma de Madrid.Archived2014-02-02 at theWayback Machine(in Spanish)
- ^Richard Talbert,ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.ISBN978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^Lund University.Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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