Ephyra (Corinth)
Ephyra ( Greek Έφυρα , ancient Greek Ἔφυρα ) or Ephyraia ( Latin Ephyraea) was the old name of the city of Corinth .
Homer reports that Ephyra was in the heart of the Argos domain and was grazing land for horses. Pausanias , who drew his knowledge from the Corinthiacs of Eumelos of Corinth , reports that the Oceanid Ephyra first settled in Ephyra and that the country was therefore named after her. According to Eusebius of Caesarea , the city was founded during the reign of Echyreus .
After successfully fighting the titans , the god Helios was awarded the north-east of the Peloponnese . He divided his land among his sons and gave Aietes Ephyra and Aloeus the neighboring Asopia . When Aietes emigrated to Colchis , he handed the city over to his son Bounos . After Bouno's death, Epopeus , the son of Aloeus, seized the city of Ephyra. His successor Corinthos finally named the place after himself. After the library of Apollodorus , Sisyphus was the founder of Ephyra. According to Eusebius of Caesarea, he only settled here.
The archaeologist Carl Blegen explored the archaeological site of Korakou from 1915 to 1916, two km north of ancient Corinth . He only discovered the remains of settlements from the Helladic period here . For this reason, he suspected to have excavated the previous settlement of Corinth. That is why he called ceramic goblets, which had previously only been found here, as Ephyra bowls .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabo : Geographica , 8, 3, 5 (p. 338)
- ↑ Homer: Iliad , 6, 152
- ^ Pausanias: Travels in Greece , 2, 1, 1
- ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea: Chronicle , 2, 43
- ^ Pausanias: Travels in Greece , 2, 3, 10
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus , 1, 9, 3
- ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea: Chronicle , 2, 48
- ↑ Carl Blegen: Korakou: a prehistoric settlement near Corinth , Boston and New York 1921, pp. 54–57 ( online )