HI´PPOLA
HI´PPOLA (
Ἱππόλα: Eth.
Ἱππολαΐτης, fern
Ἱππολαῖτις), a town of Laconia, a little north-west of the promontory of Taenarum, in ruins in the time of Pausanias.
It contained a temple of Athena Hippolaitis.
It stood either at
Kipúla, which is apparently a corruption of the ancient name, or at the ruins called
κάστρον τῆς ὡραίας on the highest point of the peninsula of
Kavo Grosso. (Leake,
More, vol. i. p. 287,
Peloponnesiaca, p. 175; Boblaye,
Recherches, &c. p. 91; Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 282.)