- Elis (/ˈiːlɪs/) or
Eleia /ɪˈlaɪ.ə/ (Gr****: Ήλιδα, romanized: Ilida,
Attic Gr****: Ἦλις, romanized: Ēlis /ɛ̂ːlis/; Elean: Ϝᾶλις /wâːlis/, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι)...
- The
Elean or
Eleian War (c. 400 BC) was a
conflict between the Gr**** city-states of
Sparta and Elis.
Sparta and Elis had been
allies against Athens during...
- interruption, on more than one
occasion they were held by
others than the
Eleians. The
Eleians declared such
games Anolympiads (non-Olympics), but it is ****umed...
- ********inated
emperor Gratian,
drowned in the sea
Andromachus (364 BC).
Eleian cavalry general Odysseas Angelis (1987), Gr****
general and head of the ****enic...
-
Carystus Aurelios Zopyros Damarchus Atyanas Horus (athlete) Theotimus, an
Eleian boxer. A
statue at
Olympia was made to
honour him. His father, Moschion...
- walls,
relying upon the
sanctity of
their country. At the same time the
Eleians were
divided into a
certain number of
local tribes; or if the
latter existed...
- the
eighth Olympiad (747 BCE) the
Pisatans succeeded in
depriving the
Eleians of the
presidency by
calling in the ****istance of
Pheidon I, king of Argos...
-
other cities of
Triphylia revolted against the
Eleians with the ****istance of Sparta, with the
Eleians accepting Triphylian independence in 400 BC. With...
- Psophis.
Lasion was a
frequent object of
dispute between the
Arcadians and
Eleians, both of whom laid
claim to it. In the war
which the
Spartans carried on...
- his
commands for the
labours through a herald, Copreus, son of
Pelops the
Eleian. This
Copreus had
killed Iphitus and fled to Mycenae,
where he was purified...
