A city northeast of Troy.
It seems likely that Apaisos and Paisos are the same city. Although the two cities are differentiated in the Iliad, their similarities are unescapable. Perhaps the addition of an "A" to the name Paisos could have been the result of a transcription error made long after the original poem was written. The geographer Strabo (first century BCE) was adamant in his belief that everything Homer did was purposeful and deliberate. With that in mind, it seems possible that Apaisos was a subdivision Paisos in the same way Hypothebai was a subdivision of the city of Thebes.
During the Trojan War, the brothers Adrestos (Adrastus) and Amphios (Amphius) commanded an undisclosed number of Trojan allies from Apaisos, Adrasteia, Pityeia, and Tereia.
The Trojan soldier Amphios traveled to Troy from Paisos, which was located northeast of Troy near the Hellespont.1 Trojan King Priam's kingdom included the territories of the Hellespont. Inhabitants of Paisos were considered to be Trojans.
1. Hellespont (Helle's Sea)—now associated with the Dardanelles, the narrow body of water separating Europe and Asia. The Hellespont of antiquity was undoubtably much larger and probably included the Propontis and a large portion of the northern Aigean (Aegean) Sea.
Latitude North, Longitude East
40.4002, 26.7870
| References: Homer, Iliad (Apaisos) book 2, line 828 (Paisos) book 5, line 612 Strabo, Geography book 13.1.19 |