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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

A city on the northern coast of the PELOPONNESE (BA 58 C1; Müller I, 743–44), one of the twelve CITIES/regions (merē) of the Achaeans. Herodotus names Aegium as one of the original twelve cities of the IONIANS, before they were forced to migrate to Asia Minor by the Achaeans (1.145). In the Hellenistic and Roman period the council of the Achaean League met at the sanctuary of ZEUS Homarios in the territory of Aegium (Strabo 8.7.5/C387; Paus. 7.24.4). The name survives in the modern town of Aigio (Egio).

SEE ALSO: Achaeans (Peloponnesian); Ethnicity; Migration