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Hypereia (spring)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, G. Reger, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Apr 29, 2025 09:54 AM — History
Strabo locates a Hypereia krēnē, mentioned in the Iliad's "Catalog of Ships", at Pherai in Thessaly (modern Velestino) and geographically criticizes its assignment by Homer to the contingent led by Eurypylos. Without comment, Pliny places "fons Hyperia" immediately before "oppida Pherae" in a list of places in Thessaly (E. Kirsten in RE accepts this as a reference to the spring at Pherai, but BAtlDir lists it as an "unlocated spring in Thessaly"). Archaeological work confirms a perennial spring at Velestino was a locus of settlement activity from the Neolithic period onwards, and a structure monumentalizing the spring was built and modified during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/543727

39.3843181977, 22.7425408742
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unlocated, spring, archaeological site, monument

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 Hyperia fons

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: spring in Thessaly


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J. Fossey, J. Morin, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, G. Reger, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Hypereia (spring): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/543727> [accessed: 17 May 2026] 

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