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Ypati (Greek: Υπάτη) is a village and a former municipality in Phthiotis, central peninsular Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Lamia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 257.504 km2. In 2021 its population was 3,537 for the municipal unit, and 440 for the settlement of Ypati itself. The town has a long history, being founded at the turn of the 5th/4th century BC as the capital of the Aenianes. During the Roman period the town prospered and was regarded as the chief city of Thessaly, as well as a bishopric. It was probably abandoned in the 7th century as a result of the Slavic invasions, but was re-established by the 9th century as Neopatras. The town became prominent as a metropolitan see and was the capital of the Greek principality of Thessaly in 1268–1318 and of the Catalan Duchy of Neopatras from 1319 to 1391. It was conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th century and remained under Ottoman rule until the Greek War of Independence.
Ypati is around 30 km west of Thermopylae and north of the Oiti mountains and Xerisa river, it is also 25 km west of Lamia south of the GR-38 (Lamia - Karpenissi - Agrinio), around 230 km NNW of Athens and about 50 km east of Karpenissi, it overlooks the Spercheios to the north. The geography includes forests and grasslands to the south in higher elevations. Phocis lies to the south. Around 3 km northwest are the famous springs that date to ancient times. It is around a few kilometres from the mountains.
In Antiquity, the city was known as Hypate (Ὑπάτη) or Hypata (Ὑπάτα), probably a corruption of hypo Oita (ὑπὸ Οἴτα, meaning "near the Mount Oeta").
The city was founded in the late 5th/early 4th century BC, as the capital of the Aenianes tribe and their koinon ("league, commonwealth"). In later times it belonged to the Amphictyony of Amphela. Herodotus records the nearby hot springs (now Loutra Ypatis), which were visited in Antiquity. It was also a polis (city-state).
In around 344 BC, the city came under Macedonian rule, which continued, except for a brief interruption during the Lamian War, until the city became a member of the Aetolian League c. 273 BC. As a member of the League, it was ravaged by the Roman general Manius Acilius Glabrio in 191 BC during his advance through Thessaly during the Roman-Seleucid War, and hosted the Aetolian peace negotiations with Roman general Lucius Valerius Flaccus two years later. After the conclusion of peace between Roman and the Aetolian League, Hypata remained as the only Aetolian possession north of Oeta. In 168 BC, Rome re-established the koinon of the Aenianes as an autonomous polity, with its own eponymous magistrates and coins; Hypata became again its capital, and entered a period of renewed prosperity.
After the Battle of Pydna, from the year 167 BC, the city was independent for a period of about twenty years, until creation of the Aenianian League, a confederation of territories of the Aenianes that was directed by five officials, although in Hypata, the capital, two archons also governed. Aenis, including Hypata, was united with the Thessalian League in the first century BC. Possibly this was done by Augustus following his victory in the Battle of Actium, foundation of Nicopolis, and reorganisation of the Amphictyonic League in 31 BC, but numismatic evidence suggests that it had already occurred before 44 BC. The city remained part of Thessaly thereafter. Under Augustus, the city received the right to refer to itself as "Hypata Augusta," which it continued to do throughout the Roman Imperial period. By the 2nd century AD, it was counted as the most important Thessalian city. The archaeological remains indicate a substantial city.
A local family, who mostly used the names Cyllus and Eubiotus became the league's most prominent family, with members serving as the League's leading magistrate, the general (strategos), until the office was abolished in the mid-second century AD. They also began to participate in wider provincial politics under Domitian, when a Cyllus was manager of the Amphictyonic League at Delphi and received Roman citizenship. In the early second century AD, his son Titus Flavius Eubiotus held the same post, funded the Pythian Games, was high priest of the Imperial cult in Thessaly, and held the post of Helladarch. Another Hypatan of this time, Lucius Cassius Petraeus funded the Pythian Games twice. Both Eubiotus and Petraeus appear as interlocutors in the philosophical dialogues of Plutarch. Hypata joined the Panhellenion, which was established in Athens by Hadrian in 131/2 AD, and Titus Flavius Cyllus, a member of the leading family, funded the Great Penhellenic games organised by the Panhellenion and was the archon of the Panhellenion for AD 153-157. In The Golden Ass, Apuleius presents the area of Hypata as being infested with bandits at this time and a poem written at this time by Ammianus, which mocks Cyllus as a "spear-moron", might indicate that he had undertaken unsuccessful expeditions to suppress this problem. A daughter of the family, Flavia Habroea, who may have a cameo at the beginning of Lucian's Lucius or the Ass, married Marcus Ulpius Leurus, a fellow Thessalian and a Roman consul. Their son Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus was a consul in the 220s and a major benefactor at Athens around 230. He seems to have been related to Emperor Pupienus in some way.
The city is still mentioned in the 6th century under its ancient name by Procopius, who recorded repairs to its walls by Emperor Justinian I, and in the Synecdemus.
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Ypati (Greek: Υπάτη) is a village and a former municipality in Phthiotis, central peninsular Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Lamia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 257.504 km2. In 2021 its population was 3,537 for the municipal unit, and 440 for the settlement of Ypati itself. The town has a long history, being founded at the turn of the 5th/4th century BC as the capital of the Aenianes. During the Roman period the town prospered and was regarded as the chief city of Thessaly, as well as a bishopric. It was probably abandoned in the 7th century as a result of the Slavic invasions, but was re-established by the 9th century as Neopatras. The town became prominent as a metropolitan see and was the capital of the Greek principality of Thessaly in 1268–1318 and of the Catalan Duchy of Neopatras from 1319 to 1391. It was conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th century and remained under Ottoman rule until the Greek War of Independence.
Ypati is around 30 km west of Thermopylae and north of the Oiti mountains and Xerisa river, it is also 25 km west of Lamia south of the GR-38 (Lamia - Karpenissi - Agrinio), around 230 km NNW of Athens and about 50 km east of Karpenissi, it overlooks the Spercheios to the north. The geography includes forests and grasslands to the south in higher elevations. Phocis lies to the south. Around 3 km northwest are the famous springs that date to ancient times. It is around a few kilometres from the mountains.
In Antiquity, the city was known as Hypate (Ὑπάτη) or Hypata (Ὑπάτα), probably a corruption of hypo Oita (ὑπὸ Οἴτα, meaning "near the Mount Oeta").
The city was founded in the late 5th/early 4th century BC, as the capital of the Aenianes tribe and their koinon ("league, commonwealth"). In later times it belonged to the Amphictyony of Amphela. Herodotus records the nearby hot springs (now Loutra Ypatis), which were visited in Antiquity. It was also a polis (city-state).
In around 344 BC, the city came under Macedonian rule, which continued, except for a brief interruption during the Lamian War, until the city became a member of the Aetolian League c. 273 BC. As a member of the League, it was ravaged by the Roman general Manius Acilius Glabrio in 191 BC during his advance through Thessaly during the Roman-Seleucid War, and hosted the Aetolian peace negotiations with Roman general Lucius Valerius Flaccus two years later. After the conclusion of peace between Roman and the Aetolian League, Hypata remained as the only Aetolian possession north of Oeta. In 168 BC, Rome re-established the koinon of the Aenianes as an autonomous polity, with its own eponymous magistrates and coins; Hypata became again its capital, and entered a period of renewed prosperity.
After the Battle of Pydna, from the year 167 BC, the city was independent for a period of about twenty years, until creation of the Aenianian League, a confederation of territories of the Aenianes that was directed by five officials, although in Hypata, the capital, two archons also governed. Aenis, including Hypata, was united with the Thessalian League in the first century BC. Possibly this was done by Augustus following his victory in the Battle of Actium, foundation of Nicopolis, and reorganisation of the Amphictyonic League in 31 BC, but numismatic evidence suggests that it had already occurred before 44 BC. The city remained part of Thessaly thereafter. Under Augustus, the city received the right to refer to itself as "Hypata Augusta," which it continued to do throughout the Roman Imperial period. By the 2nd century AD, it was counted as the most important Thessalian city. The archaeological remains indicate a substantial city.
A local family, who mostly used the names Cyllus and Eubiotus became the league's most prominent family, with members serving as the League's leading magistrate, the general (strategos), until the office was abolished in the mid-second century AD. They also began to participate in wider provincial politics under Domitian, when a Cyllus was manager of the Amphictyonic League at Delphi and received Roman citizenship. In the early second century AD, his son Titus Flavius Eubiotus held the same post, funded the Pythian Games, was high priest of the Imperial cult in Thessaly, and held the post of Helladarch. Another Hypatan of this time, Lucius Cassius Petraeus funded the Pythian Games twice. Both Eubiotus and Petraeus appear as interlocutors in the philosophical dialogues of Plutarch. Hypata joined the Panhellenion, which was established in Athens by Hadrian in 131/2 AD, and Titus Flavius Cyllus, a member of the leading family, funded the Great Penhellenic games organised by the Panhellenion and was the archon of the Panhellenion for AD 153-157. In The Golden Ass, Apuleius presents the area of Hypata as being infested with bandits at this time and a poem written at this time by Ammianus, which mocks Cyllus as a "spear-moron", might indicate that he had undertaken unsuccessful expeditions to suppress this problem. A daughter of the family, Flavia Habroea, who may have a cameo at the beginning of Lucian's Lucius or the Ass, married Marcus Ulpius Leurus, a fellow Thessalian and a Roman consul. Their son Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus was a consul in the 220s and a major benefactor at Athens around 230. He seems to have been related to Emperor Pupienus in some way.
The city is still mentioned in the 6th century under its ancient name by Procopius, who recorded repairs to its walls by Emperor Justinian I, and in the Synecdemus.
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