Macynia or Makynia (Ancient Greek: Μακυνία),[1] Macyna or Makyna (Μακύνα),[2] or Macyneia or Makyneia (Μακύνεια),[3] was a coastal town of ancient Aetolia at the foot of the eastern slope of Mount Taphiassus. According to Strabo it was built after the return of the Heraclidae into Peloponnesus. It is called a town of the Ozolian Locrians by the poet Archytas of Amphissa, who describes it in a hexameter line: "the grape-clad, perfume-breathing, lovely Macȳna." It is also mentioned in an epigram of Alcaeus of Messene, who was a contemporary of Philip V of Macedon. Pliny mentions a mountain Macynium, which must have been part of Mount Taphiassus, near Macynia, unless it is indeed a mistake for the town.[4][2][5]
Its site is tentatively located near the modern Makyneia.[6][7]
Strabo, Geography 10.2.6
Aetolia also has a very large mountain, Corax, which borders on Oeta; and it has among the rest of its mountains, and more in the middle of the country than Corax, Aracynthus, near which New Pleuron was founded by the inhabitants of the Old, who abandoned their city, which had been situated near Calydon in a district both fertile and level, at the time when Demetrius, surnamed Aetolicus, laid waste the country; above Molycreia are Taphiassus and Chalcis, rather high mountains, on which were situated the small cities Macynia and Chalcis, the latter bearing the same name as the mountain, though it is also called Hypochalcis
References
Strabo. Geographica. x. p.451. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Plutarch Quaest. Graec. 15
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
Strabo. Geographica. x. pp. 451, 460. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Anth. Graec. 9.518; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.3.
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Macynia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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