Aipy

Aipy or Aepy ({{langx|grc|Αἶπυ}}) was a city in ancient Elis, Greece.{{cite DGRG|title=Aepy}} It was one of the oldest towns in Elis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in Iliad, as one of the territories ruled by Nestor.{{Cite Iliad|2.592}} Homer uses the expression "ἐΰκτιτον Αίπυ" (ἐΰκτιτον means "well-built" and Αίπυ, the town's name, means "steep").{{cite book|title=Estrabón, Geografía libros VIII-X|page= 74, n. 207|author=Juan José Torres Esbarranch|language=Spanish|place=Madrid|publisher=Gredos|year=2001|isbn= 84-249-2298-0}} It is also quoted in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.Homeric Hymn to Apollo 423. There are those who believe that the name corresponds to the toponym A-pu2 cited in tablets in Linear B.{{Cite book|title= Homero, Iliad|editor=José García Blanco |editor2=Luis M Macía Aparicio|page=77, & note|place=Madrid|publisher=CSIC|year=1991|language=Spanish}}

Its location is a mystery, which has occupied minds since at least the time of Strabo, who commented it could be considered that Aipy should be identified with a city called Margana or with a natural bastion located near Makistos.{{Cite Strabo|8.3.24}} It may the same as the later Epeium, a town of Triphylia, which was located on a mountain, between Macistus and Heraea. The site of Epeium is tentatively identified with a site near Tripiti.{{Cite DARE|22793}}{{Cite Barrington|58}} Others suggest that Aipy was the later Typaneae, and locate its site between the present villages Platiana and Makistos (both in the municipal unit of Skillounta), where a wall of the ancient acropolis survives into the present, together with a theatre and an agora (market), now entirely in ruins.[http://users.ilei.sch.gr/kkotsanas/SKILLOUDAS%20TOURIST%20GUIDE/tourist%20guide%20of%20skilloudas/platiana.htm Πλατιανα]