Conope

Conope or Konope (Ancient Greek: Κωνώπη) and later, Arsinoe (Ἀρσινόη) or Arsinoia (Ἀρσινοί̈α or Ἀρσινοΐα), was a city of ancient Aetolia, near the eastern bank of the Achelous River, and 20 stadia from the ford of this river. It was only a village, until it was enlarged by Arsinoe, the wife and sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus. Polybius, in his history of the Social War (220-217 BCE), calls it Conope, though elsewhere he calls it Arsinoe or Arsinoia. It is mentioned by Cicero under the name of Arsinoe. Near this town the river Cyathus flowed into the Achelous from the lake Hyria, which is also called Conope by Antoninus Liberalis.[1]

Its site is located near the modern village of Angelokastro (Angelókastro, Anghelokastro) in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece.[2][3]

References

1. Strabo p. 460; Pol. iv. 64, v. 6, 7, 13, ix. 45, xxx. 14; Cic. c. Pis. 37; Antonin. Lib. 12; Stephanus of Byzantium s. v.; William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 152).
2. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying.
3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Conope". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.