{{Short description|Town in ancient Elis}} '''Opus''' ({{langx|grc|Ὀποῦς}})<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> was a town in the mountainous district of [[Acroreia]] in [[ancient Elis]], taken by the [[ancient Sparta|Spartans]], when they invaded Elis at the close of the [[Peloponnesian War]].<ref name=Diodorus>{{Cite Diodorus|14.17.8}}</ref><ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|9.4.2}}</ref> [[Diodorus Siculus]] writes that the Spartans, under command of [[Pausanias of Sparta]], marched against Elis with 4,000 men in 402 BCE, and that Opus (along with [[Alium]], [[Eupagium]], [[Thraustus]], and [[Lasion]]) was one of the towns subdued.<ref name=Diodorus/> [[Xenophon]] mentions an [[ancient Arcadia|Arcadian]] raid into Elis and took several towns of [[Acroreia]] around 365 BCE.<ref>{{Cite Hellenica|7.4.14}}</ref> [[Strabo]] says that the inhabitants of Opus were related to those of the [[Locrian Opus]].<ref name=Strabo/> The [[Scholiast]] on [[Pindar]] mentions a river Opus in Elis.<ref>Schol. ad Pind. ''Ol.'' 9.64.</ref>
Its site has not been located,<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=58}}</ref> also some suggest it may be the ruins near modern [[Gartsiko]].<ref>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Elis|page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n516 500]}}</ref>
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