Hyperesia (Achaia) 13 unknown

Ὑπερησία - Hyperεsia, Homeric polis, said to be the predecessor of Aigeira, possibly connected with the Mycenaean (LH3) citadel of Aigeira
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Latitude: 38.126800
Longitude: 22.373600
Confidence: Low (20201005)

Greek name: Ὑπερησία
Place ID: 381224PHyp
Time period: BGAC
Region: Peloponnese
Country: Greece
Department: Korinthia
Mod: unknown

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Read summary reports on the recent excavations at Hyperεsia in Chronique des fouilles en ligne – Archaeology in Greece Online.
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Modern Description: Ancient authors claimed Hyperesia was renamed Aigeira, but it is unclear whether the early polis had an urban center and, if so, whether it was at the current site of Aigeira, where the acropolis (signposted) is primarily LH3, with scraps of a Classical sanctuary on top, and the lower city is primarily late 4th century through Roman.
Wikidata ID: Q3563508

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Homer, Iliad§2.570  Sicyon, wherein at the first Adrastus was king; and they that held Hyperesia and steep Gonoessa and Pellene, -1000
Homer, Odyssey§15.250  after Amphiaraus died. In anger at his father, he moved away to Hyperesia . -1000
Eusebius, Chronography§71  BCE] Pantacles for a second time. 23rd Olympiad [688 BCE] Icarius of Hyperesia, stadion race. A boxing contest was added, and the winner was -720
Pausanias, Description of Greece§4.15.1  the fourth year of the twenty-third Olympiad [685 BCE], when Icarus of Hyperesia won the short footrace. At Athens the archonship was now of annual -685
Strabo, Geography§8.6.19  Sikyon, wherein Adrastus was king at the first; and those who held Hyperesie and steep Gonoessa and Pellene, and dwelt about Aegium and through all -1
Strabo, Geography§8.6.25  it both his native Sikyon and the other cities near it. But Hyperesia and the cities that come in their order after it, which the -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§7.26.2  Homer in his poem calls the city Hyperesia . Its present name was given it while the Ionians were still -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§7.26.3  The Sicyonians, suspecting that allies were coming to the help of the Hyperesians, and that the flames came from their fires, set off home -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§7.26.3  that the flames came from their fires, set off home again. The Hyperesians gave their city its present name of Aegeira from the goats (aiges), -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§7.26.4  The name Aegeira, however, did not supersede Hyperesia at once, just as even in my time there were still some -1
Pausanias, Description of Greece§7.26.13  in the list of those who accompanied Agamemnon: “And the men of Hyperesia and those of steep Donoessa.” They go on to say that when -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§Y650.1  Hyperasia: Ὑπερασία, πόλις [Ἀχαΐας], ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὑπερασιεύς. Φλέγων κγʹ ὀλυμπιάδι. -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§Y650.17   Hyperesia : Ὑπερησία, πόλις τῆς Ἀχαΐας. 'οἵ θ´ Ὑπερησίην τε καὶ αἰπεινὴν Γονόεσσαν'. -1
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