Echinus (Acarnania)

Echinus or Echinos (Greek: Εχῖνος) was an ancient Greek town of Acarnania.^[1] Legend has it that it was founded by a Greek mythological figure named Echinus.^[2] It is mentioned by the poet Rhianus, and appears in the list of cities of Acarnania transmitted by Pliny the Elder, who places it between Heraclea and Actium.^[3] The site of Echinus is near the modern town of Vonitsa, probably the kastro (or castle) of Profitis Elias.^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Hansen & Nielsen 2004, p. 359.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
"Ἐχῖνος, πόλις Ἀκαρνανἰας, Ἐχίνου κτίσμα. Ῥιανὸς Ἐχίονος ἄστυ ταύτην εἶπεν. ὁ πολίτης Ἐχιναῖος ὡς χέρσος χερσαῖος καὶ Ἄπειρος Ἀπειραῖος Κύφος Κυφαῖος. καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐχιναῖος Ἐχιναιεύς ὡς Κρηταῖος Κρηταιεύς. τίνες δὲ Ἐχινοῦντα φασὶ τὴν αὐτήν."
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.1.5.
"Acarnaniae, quae antea Curetis vocabatur, oppida: Heraclia, Echinus et in ore ipso colony Augusti Actium cum temple Apollinis nobili ac civitate libera Nicopolitana."
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Perlman 2000, p. 119.

Hansen, Mogens Herman; Nielsen, Thomas Heine (2004). An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198140991.
Perlman, Paula Jean (2000). City and Sanctuary in Ancient Greece: The Theorodokia in the Peloponnese. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 3-525-25218-8.

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