Chalcis (Elis)
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Chalcis or Chalkis (Ancient Greek: Χαλκίς) was a town of ancient Elis. Strabo locates it in an area of the region of Triphylia called Macistia, near a river also called Chalcis, a spring called Cruni (currently called Tavla) and not far from the city of Samicum.[1] Both Cruni and Chalcis are named by Homer in the Odyssey ,[2] and both are also cited in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo .[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ Strabo. Geographica . Vol. 8.3.13, 8.3.26-27, 10.1.9. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Homer. Odyssey . Vol. 15.295.
- ^ Homeric Hymn to Apollo 423.
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