Heraclea, Heracleia, or Herakleia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια) was a town of
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 ...
in
ancient Elis, distant 40 or 50
stadia
Stadia may refer to:
* One of the plurals of stadium, along with "stadiums"
* The plural of stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which equals to 600 Greek feet (''podes'').
* Stadia (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, now in Turkey
* Stadi ...
from
Olympia. It was but a village in the time of
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
* Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...
. It contained medicinal waters issuing from a fountain sacred to the
Ionic nymphs, and flowing into the neighbouring stream called
Cytherus or
Cytherius, which is the brook near the modern village of
Irakleia (formerly called Brouma or Bruma).
The location of Heracleia is near the village of Irakleia.
References
Populated places in ancient Elis
Former populated places in Greece
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