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Ancient Greek town in Acarnania

**Alyzeia** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Ἀλύζεια)[1] or **Alyzia** (Ἀλυζια),[2] was a town on the west coast of [ancient Acarnania](/source/Ancient_Acarnania).[3] According to [Strabo](/source/Strabo) it was distant 15 [stadia](/source/Stadion_(unit)) from the sea, on which it possessed a harbour and a sanctuary, both dedicated to [Heracles](/source/Heracles). In this sanctuary were some works of art by [Lysippus](/source/Lysippus), representing the [Labours of Heracles](/source/Labours_of_Heracles), which a [Roman](/source/Ancient_Rome) general caused to be removed to Rome on account of the deserted state of the place. The remains of Alyzia are still visible in the valley of [Kandila](/source/Kandila%2C_Aetolia-Acarnania). The distance of the bay of Kandila from the ruins to [Leucas](/source/Leucas_(island)) corresponds with the 120 stadia which [Cicero](/source/Cicero) assigns for the distance between Alyzia and Leucas.[4][5][6] Alyzia is said to have derived its name from [Alyzeus](/source/Alyzeus), a son of [Icarius](/source/Icarius_of_Sparta).[7][1] It is first mentioned by [Thucydides](/source/Thucydides); in 375 BCE, a naval battle was fought in the neighbourhood of Alyzia between the [Athenians](/source/Ancient_Athens) under [Timotheus](/source/Timotheus_(general)) and the [Lacedaemonians](/source/Ancient_Sparta) under [Nicolochus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolochus&action=edit&redlink=1).[2] The Athenians, says [Xenophon](/source/Xenophon), erected their trophy at Alyzia, and the Lacedaemonians in the nearest islands.[8] According to the *[Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax](/source/Periplus_of_Pseudo-Scylax)* that the island immediately opposite Alyzia was called Carnus, the modern [Kalamos](/source/Kalamos_(island)).

Epirus in antiquity

Its site is located near the modern [Kandila](/source/Kandila%2C_Aetolia-Acarnania), Xiromero.[9][10]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Stephanus_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Stephanus_1-1) [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium). Ethnica. Vol. *s.v*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Cite_Thucydides|7.31_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Cite_Thucydides|7.31_2-1) [Thucydides](/source/Thucydides). *[History of the Peloponnesian War](/source/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War)*. Vol. 7.31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** W.M. Murray, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Alyz(e)ia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <[https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530793](https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530793)> [accessed: 25 June 2019]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Strabo](/source/Strabo). *[Geographica](/source/Geographica)*. Vol. pp. 450, 459. Page numbers refer to those of [Isaac Casaubon](/source/Isaac_Casaubon)'s edition.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Cicero](/source/Cicero) *ad Fam.* 16.2; [Pliny](/source/Pliny_the_Elder). *[Naturalis Historia](/source/Natural_History_(Pliny))*. [Book 4.2](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+4.2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy). *[The Geography](/source/Geography_(Ptolemy))*. Vol. 3.14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Strabo](/source/Strabo). *[Geographica](/source/Geographica)*. Vol. p. 452. Page numbers refer to those of [Isaac Casaubon](/source/Isaac_Casaubon)'s edition.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Xenophon](/source/Xenophon). *[Hellenica](/source/Hellenica)*. Vol. 5.4, 5.65-66.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 54. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/23292.html).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Alyzia". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

## See also

- [List of cities in ancient Acarnania](/source/List_of_cities_in_ancient_Acarnania)

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