Pylene (Ancient Greek: Πυλήνη) was a town of ancient Aetolia, between the Acheolous and the Evenus, mentioned in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad,[1] is placed by Pliny the Elder on the Corinthian Gulf.
Strabo says that the Aeolians who took Pylene afterwards removed higher up into the country and founded Proschium.
[3] Its site is tentatively located near the modern Magoula/Aitolikon.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
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