Pisa (Greece)
Pisa ( Greek Πῖσα ) was the name of an ancient landscape in the western part of the Peloponnese - there was no city of this name there.
The area controlled by the small rural landscape of Pisa was later artificially called Pisatis . This area included Olympia , the site of the ancient Olympic Games .
Pisa was conquered by Elis in 572 BC. Subsequently, the area immediately incorporated into Elis was referred to as Pisatis. Authors of the Hellenistic period used the term in their own definition with regard to the extent and exact location of the area in question.
Until it was destroyed by Elis, Pisa was responsible for the administration of the sanctuary of Olympia and the organization of the games. In 365 BC Pisa was revived for a short time with the help of the Arcadians and was judged in 364 BC. BC once again played the games, in the course of which there was a battle on the Altis of the sanctuary. A little later the Pisatis was again and finally subjugated by Elis.
In myth, Pisa was considered the birthplace of the spring nymph Arethusa . The modern place Archea Pisa belongs to the municipality Archea Olymbia .
literature
- Yves Lafond, Eckart Olshausen : Pisatis, Pisa. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 1040 f.
- Massimo Nafissi: La prospettiva di Pausania sulla storia dell'Elide: la questione pisate. In: Denis Knoepfler, Marcel Piérart (ed.): Éditer, traduire, commenter Pausanias en l'an 2000 (= Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Neuchâtel. Recueil de travaux. Vol. 49). Droz, Geneva 2001, ISBN 2-940237-03-4 , pp. 301-321.
- Mait Kõiv: Early History of Elis and Pisa: Invented or Evolving Traditions? In: Klio . Vol. 95, 2013, pp. 315-368.
Remarks
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 5.494.