Olynthos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jeremiah Bartlett, R. Talbert
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May 02, 2024 05:28 PM
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History
Olynthos was an ancient city of the Chalcidice, founded in the seventh century B.C. and destroyed in 348 B.C. by the forces of Philip II of Macedon.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678
40.295241948, 23.3542614956
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Αρχαιολογικός χώρος Ολύνθου (750 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Olynthos part of (regional) Chalcidice (unspecified date range)
- Olynthos founded by Chalcis (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Olynthos member of Delian League (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Olynthos part of (administrative) Poteidaia/Kassandreia (330 BC - 30 BC)
- House A VII 4 located at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- House of Many Colors located at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- Mekyberna part of (administrative) Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- Mekyberna port of Olynthos (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Poteidaia/Kassandreia part of (administrative) Olynthos (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Villa of Good Fortune located at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
settlement
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos
- Cahill 2000
- Cahill 2002
- Dimova 2019 131
- Hansen 2004 no. 588
- Nevett 2020
- Nevett et al. 2017
- New Pauly Olynthus
- PECS (Perseus) OLYNTHOS Chalkidike, Greece
- Perseus site catalog: Olynthus (Site)
- RE Olynthos
- Robinson 1929
- Robinson 1932
- Robinson 1932a
- Robinson 1935
- Robinson and Mylonas 1929-1952
- Robinson and Mylonas 1939
- Stoa.org, Household and City Organization at Olynthus
- ToposText Olynthos (Halkidiki)
- TrecEnc Olitno
- Wace 1914/1915, 11-15
- Wikipedia (English) Olynthus
- Related:
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- Arachne Olynthos Chalkidiki (Regionalbezirk) (Olynthus / Όλυνθος / Olynthos), Griechenland
- DARMC 24145
- GeoNames 734996: Olynthos
- TGN 5004260: Olynthos (deserted settlement)
- TM GEO ID 1498: Olynthos
- Wikidata Olynthus (Q1141669)
- nomisma.org Olynthus
- vici.org 11296: Olynthos
- vici.org 28554: Olynthos, South Hill
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nea Olynthos.
David Moore Robinson of Johns Hopkins University conducted twentieth century (1928-1934) excavations that brought the archaeological site to light and published a multi-volume series of archaeological reports. Nicholas Cahill carried out extensive work on the organization of the city and its domestic architecture.
E.N. Borza, Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jeremiah Bartlett, and R. Talbert, 'Olynthos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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