Buprasium

{{Short description|Town of ancient Elis}} '''Buprasium''' or '''Bouprasion''' ({{langx|grc|Βουπράσιον}}) was a town of ancient Elis, and the ancient capital of the Epeii,<ref>per Apollodorus of Athens; {{cite book|title=Estrabón, ''Geografía'' libros VIII-X|page= 44, n. 110|author=Juan José Torres Esbarranch|language=Spanish|place=Madrid|publisher=Gredos|year=2001|isbn= 84-249-2298-0}}</ref> frequently mentioned by Homer.<ref>{{Cite Iliad|2.615, 11.755, 23.631}}</ref> The town first occurs as providing ships, commanded together with three other zones by captains that are mentioned separately of Nestor in the ''Iliad'' in the Catalogue of Ships.<ref>{{Cite Iliad|2.615}}</ref> The town also features in other passages in the ''Iliad''. In the story in which Nestor narrates a past confrontation between Pylos and the Eleans, the town is described as rich in wheat.<ref>{{Cite Iliad|11.755}}</ref> In another story, Nestor tells that he participated in the funeral games at Buprasium after the burial of king Amarynceus.<ref>{{Cite Iliad|23.631}}</ref> It situated near the left bank of the Larissus, and consequently upon the confines of Achaea. The town was no longer extant in the time of Strabo,<ref>{{Cite Strabo|Strab. viii. pp. 340, 345, 349, 352, 357, 387}}</ref> but its name was still attached to a district on the road from the city of Elis to Dyme on the left bank of the Larissus, which appears from Stephanus of Byzantium to have borne also the name of ''Buprasius''.<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref>

Its site is unlocated.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=58}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in ancient Elis Category:Former populated places in Greece Category:Places in the Iliad Category:Lost ancient cities and towns