List of cities in ancient Epirus

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This is a list of cities in ancient Epirus. These were Greek poleis, komes or fortresses except for Nicopolis, which was founded by Octavian. Classical Epirus was divided into three regions: Chaonia, Molossia, Thesprotia, each named after the dominant tribe that lived there. A number of ancient settlements in these regions remain unidentified.^[1]^[2]

Cities

Chaonia

Amantia, main settlement of the Amantes
Antigonia (Chaonia),^[3] polis founded by Pyrrhus of Epirus
Artichia,^[4] polis
Aulon, modern-day Vlorë, first attested in the 2nd century AD
Baiake^[5] pre-Hellenistic polis
Bouthroton,^[6] Chaonian polis
Cestrine or Cammania,^[7] modern-day Filiates
Chimaera (Chaonia),^[1]^[8] or Chimera (polis) Chaonian polis, modern-day Himara
Hekatompedon,^[1] pre-Hellenistic polis
Olympe,^[9] polis in the region of the Amantes
Onchesmos,^[10] pre-Hellenistic polis, modern-day Saranda
Orikos, founded by Euboeans^[11] Euboeans colony
Panormos (Epirus) or Panormus (Epirus),^[12] pre-Hellenistic polis
Phanoteia,^[13] polis
Phoenice,^[14] chief polis of the Chaonians, modern-day Finiq
Photike,^[1] pre-Hellenistic polis, modern-day Paramythia
Thronion,^[15] colony of the Euboeans - Locrians

Molossia

Dodona,^[16]^[17] sanctuary, the second most important oracle in ancient Greece after Delphi
Eurymenai (Epirus),^[18] polis
Orraon,^[19] founded 385 BC polis
Passaron,^[20] polis

Thesprotia

Bouneima^[21] pre Hellenistic
Korkyra (polis)^[22] polis
Tekmona or Tekmon^[18] polis
Charadros (Epirus)^[21] pre Hellenistic
Chyton founded^[23] by Ionians from Klazomenai
Zmaratha^[18] polis
Gitanae^[24] polis
Elateia (Epirus) founded by Elisians^[25] polis
Batiai founded by Elisians^[25] polis
Thesprotia (polis)^[1] pre Hellenistic
Trampya^[1] pre Hellenistic
Helikranon^[1] pre Hellenistic
Ilium (Epirus)^[1] pre Hellenistic
Elina (Epirus)^[1] pre Hellenistic
Elaias Limen^[1] pre Hellenistic
Sybota^[1] pre Hellenistic
Cheimerion^[1] pre Hellenistic
Ephyra (Epirus) or Kichyros^[26] founded by Chaonians in Parthenius's story of Anthippe^[27] polis
Oropos (Epirus)^[1] pre Hellenistic
Toryne^[28] or Torone polis
Pandosia (Epirus)^[25] founded by Elisians polis
Elaea founded by Corinthians^[25] polis
Bucheta founded by Elisians^[25] polis
Cassope^[29]^[30] pre Hellenistic
Elatria founded by Elisians^[31]
Poionos^[13] polis
Berenike (Epirus)^[4] polis
Kastrosykia^[4]

References

[1]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 340
[2]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 353
[3]
The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 7, Part 1: The Hellenistic World by F. W. Walbank, A. E. Astin, M. W. Frederiksen, and R. M. Ogilvie, 1984, Index: "... 183 Anticythera instrument, 336-7 Antigone, wife of Pyrrhus, io6, 107 Antigoneia, as new name of Mantinea, 470, 473 Antigoneia (Epirus), y Ab, 452 Antigoneia (Paeonia), y Ba, ..."
[4]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 342
[5]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN 0-19-814099-1, 2004, page 339
[6]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN 0-19-814099-1, 2004, page 343,"Bouthroton (Bouthrotios)"
[7]
Bell, Robert (1989). Place names in classical mythology. ABC-CLIO. p. 78. ISBN 9780874365078.
[8]
Springs and Wells in Greek and Roman Literature: Their Legends and Locations by James Reuel Smith, 2003,ISBN 0-7661-8028-X, page 263
[9]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 347
[10]
Bowden, William. Epirus Vetus: The Archaeology of a Late Antique Province. London: Duckworth, 2003, ISBN 0-7156-3116-0, p. 14. "Anchiasmos (Onchesmos)"
[11]
Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8), p. 123.
[12]
Epirus: the geography, the ancient remains, the history and topography of Epirus and adjacen areas by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, 1967, page 473
[13]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 348
[14]
The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Peter Green, 2008, page 80,"... to the conference table, and negotiated their own peace at Phoenice in Epirus (205). ..."
[15]
The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted, 2005, ISBN 0-19-814099-1, p. 322. "...expansion of Apollonia is implied in the dedication at Olympia of spoils from the destruction of the Euboian-Lokrian settlement at Thronion."
[16]
Ambrose (The Early Church Fathers) by Boniface Ramsey, 1997, Back Matter: "... the Gauls when they captured Rome in 390 BC. 100 Dodona was a town in ancient Greece that was famous for its temple and ..."
[17]
Potter, John. Archaeologia Graeca or the Antiquities of Greece. Blackie, 1840 (Original from the University of Lausanne), p. 258. "Dodona is by some thought to have been a city of Thessaly; by others it was placed in Epirus; and others, to reconcile these two opinions, will have two Dodonas, one in Thessaly, and another in Epirus. They that place it in Epirus (and that is generally believed to have been the seat of the oracle, whether there was another Dodona in Thessaly or not), are no less divided in their opinions about it; for some of them will have it in Thesprotia, others in Chaonia, or Molossia; but Eustathius has undertaken to decide the controversy, telling us that it did indeed once belong to the Thesprotians, but afterwards fell into the hands of the Molossians; and he is herein confirmed by Strabo."
[18]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 349
[19]
dans le secteur proche d'Orraon
[20]
Rome's Mediterranean Empire Book 41-45 and the Periochae (Oxford World's Classics) (Books 41-45) by Livy and Jane D. Chaplin, 2007, page 195,"... had been made public, Anicius returned to winter quarters at Passaron in Epirus. 27. ..."
[21]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 339
[22]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 361
[23]
Travels in Northern Greece. In four volumes. Volume 4 by William Martin Leake,ISBN 1-4021-6770-9, page 76,"name was Chyton, which, according to Ephorus, was a colony settled in Epirus"
[24]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 345
[25]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, Index
[26]
Anthology Of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation : with Additional Translations by Other Scholars and an Appendix on Linear B sources by Thomas G. Palaima by Stephen Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, and Stephen Brunet, 2004, page 44: "... the Calydonians against the Thesprotians. After capturing the city of Ephyra, where King Phylas ruled, he slept with the king’s daughter ..."
[27]
Parthenius
[28]
Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch and Ian Scott-Kilvert, 1965, page 328,"... the Ionian sea and seizing a town in Epirus named Toryne, the name of which means 'ladle'. ..."
[29]
Travels in Northern Greece: Volume 1 by William Martin Leake, 2001, page 252,"... marching from Acarnania into Epirus, pitched his camp near the city Cassopia 3. ..."
[30]
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 346
[31]
The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3, Part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries BC by John Boardman and N. G. L. Hammond, 1982, page 337,"... Eleans planted two other colonies in the same part of Epirus, Elatria and Pandosia. Their colonies were in terrain similar to coastal ..."