Pimpleia

Pimpleia was a city of ancient Greece in Pieria, the region at the foot of Mount Olympus, close to Dion and to the ancient town of Leivithra. The geographer Strabo described it as a quarter or suburb of Dion, and its probable site is the modern village of Agia Paraskevi near Litochoro. Pimpleia was renowned in antiquity as the birthplace and early home of Orpheus, the legendary singer, and it was associated with springs and memorials dedicated to him and to Orphic cults. The cults of the Muses were also celebrated there, and the Muses took the epithet Pimpleids from the place, which ties the town to the older religious landscape around Olympus.