Elone
Ἠλώνη
Elone (Ἠλώνη), a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, mentioned by Homer along with Orthe and Oloosson, afterwards called LEIMONE (Λειμώνη), according to Strabo. The same writer says that it was in ruins in his time, and that it lay at the foot of Mt. Olympus, not far from the river Eurotas, which the poet calls, Titaresius. Leake places it at Selos, where there are said to. be some ancient. remains. (Hom. Il. 2.739, ix. p. 440; Steph. B. sub voce Ἠλώνη; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 345).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.