A district in the northwestern portion of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
The people of Elis were called Epeians and Eleans; the Epeians preceded the Eleans as inhabitants of Elis. Both names are used in the Iliad but Epeians seems to be the most common.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 2, lines 615, 626; book 11, lines 673, 686, 698 |