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Elis or Ilia ( Greek: Ηλεία, Ileia) is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is administered as a regional unit of the modern region of Western Greece. Its capital is Pyrgos. Until 2011 it was Elis Prefecture, covering the same territory.
Pyrgos ( Greek: Πύργος, romanized :Pýrgos, lit. 'tower') is a city in the northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, capital of the regional unit of Elis and the seat of the Municipality of Pyrgos. The city is located in the middle of a plain, 4 kilometres (2 miles) from the Ionian Sea. The river Alfeios flows into sea about 7 km (4 mi) south of ...
Rhea Silvia. Rhea (or Rea) Silvia ( Latin: [ˈreːa ˈsɪɫu̯ia] ), also known as Ilia, [ 1] (as well as other names) [ a] was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome. [ 3][ 4] This event was portrayed numerous times in Roman art [ 5] Her story is told in the first book of Ab Urbe Condita Libri of Livy ...
The Little Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιὰς μικρά, Ilias mikra; Latin: parva Illias) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Little Iliad comes chronologically after that of the Aethiopis, and is followed ...
History. [edit] Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare.
Ilya (Ilyusha) Snegiryov, a character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Ilya, Also known as Julian Devorak, plague doctor from mobile dating simulator game "The Arcana". Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate series by Type-Moon. Ilya Goryunov, a character from Dmitry Glukhovski ´s book Text.
The Church of Prophet Elijah ( Greek: Ναός Προφήτη Ηλία, Naós Profíti Ilía) is a 14th-century church in Thessaloniki, Greece, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] The church is located in the upper quarter of the old city, and dates to the Palaiologan period, but its original dedication is unknown. In Ottoman times, it was ...
Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, [1] K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, based on a 1705 play by Crébillion ...