Rhypes

{{Short description|Polis (city-state) of ancient Achaea}}

{{Coord|38.2198|N|22.01219|E|format=dms|display=title|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/31059}}

Rhypes ({{langx|grc|Ῥύπες}}), or Rhypae or Rhypai (Ῥύπαι){{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}} was a polis (city-state){{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Achaia |pages= 485–486}} of ancient Achaea, 30 stadia west of Aegium, and was one of the original twelve Achaean cities.{{Cite Herodotus|1.145}} It had ceased to be a member of the Achaean League in the time of Polybius, who mentions Leontium in its place.{{Cite Polybius|2.41}} Rhypes, however, continued to exist down to the time of Augustus; but this emperor destroyed the city and transferred its inhabitants to Patrae, and its territory (Ῥυπίς, or ἡ Ῥυπική) was divided between Aegium and Pharae.{{Cite Pausanias|7|18|7}} Its ruins were seen by Pausanias, in the 2nd century, at a short distance from the main road from Aegium to Patrae.{{Cite Pausanias|7|6|1}}, 7.23.4. We learn from Strabo that this town was mentioned by Aeschylus as κεραυνίας Ῥύπας, or "Rhypes stricken by the thunderbolt." It was the birthplace of Myscellus, the founder of Croton.{{Cite Strabo|8.7.5}}

In the territory of Rhypes there was a suburb called Leuctrum (Λεῦκτρον), and also a seaport named Erineum (Ἐρινεόν or Ἐρινεὸς λιμήν) which is mentioned by Thucydides,{{Cite Thucydides|7.34}} and which is described by Pausanias as 60 stadia from Aegium.{{Cite Pausanias|7|22|10}}{{Cite Pliny|4.6}}

The site of Rhypes is located south of modern Koumari.{{Cite DARE|31059}}{{Cite Barrington|58}}