Midnight journey to Harpina
· Harpina, Pisatis, Elis, Greece
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic; Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported; GNU Free Documentation License · file After the Olympic festival, Lucian traveled at midnight to Harpina to witness the pyre of Peregrinus, providing a rare first-person itinerary point. The text and its editorial introduction place this journey after the Olympic festival of AD 165. Harpina's archaeological location is uncertain; coordinates are an approximate representative point east of Olympia consistent with the text's distance and direction.
