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Last Week in Pleiades (25 March - 1 April 2024)

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In the last week, the Pleiades editorial college has published 17 new and 156 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Francis Deblauwe, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (25 March - 1 April 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from the British Isles in the northwest to the mouth of the Red Sea in the Southeast.

New Place Resources

  • A gate in the Themistoklean Wall of Athens, through which the road to Acharnai passed.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A rectangular peribolos with an altar in the centre, built in 522/1 BC, destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480/79 BC, and rebuilt in the late 5th century BC. It was the central milestone from which distances in Attica were measured. The remains are now mostly underneath the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railway.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Catherine Bouras; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • A large structure near the northeast corner of the Athenian Agora, built early in the second century AD, which may have been a basilica and perhaps served as a court.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors:
  • A gate in the Themistoklean Wall of Athens, whose name means "Equestrian Gate." It has been identified with archaeological remains (not visible) at Leokoriou and Dipylou Streets.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A round building constructed in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora in the 5th century AD over the Crossroads Enclosure. It was ruined in the late 5th or 6th centuries AD.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors:
  • A location for festival performances in the Agora of Athens, known solely from literary sources and perhaps also called "the grandstands" (ta ikria). Performances were transferred to the Theater of Dionysos on the south slope of the Acropolis in the 490s BC, but the name remained in use for a location in the Agora.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors:
  • The Porta Nomentana was a single-arch gateway in the Aurelianic Walls of Rome built between 270 and 273 AD by the emperor Aurelian.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
  • A shrine dedicated to Aglauros, on the east slope of the Acropolis of Athens. The location was identified by an inscription found in situ.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania ("Heavenly") in Athens, on the Panathenaic Way as it entered the Athenian Agora. It consisted of an altar built around 500 BC and a temple built in the early first century AD. The Late Roman Stoa was built over the top of it in the fifth century AD.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Pausanias describes a Sanctuary of Heracles located at Thespiai with a virginal priestess. This priestess, says Pausanias, was one of the 50 daughters of Thestius. The precise location of the sanctuary is not known today.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Greta Hawes; R. Scott Smith; Tom Elliott
  • A sanctuary located by the Ilissos River, east of Athens, consisting of a rock-cut courtyard, where over 50 votive reliefs were found, dedicated to an older god called Pankrates ("all-powerful"), Palaimon, Plouton ("wealth") and "God", and a younger god called Pankrates and Herakles Pankrates.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • Pausanias describes a Sanctuary of Poseidon located at Onchestos that preserved a grove sacred to the god and that Homer had once praised.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Greta Hawes; R. Scott Smith
  • Statues of the tyrannicides Harmodios and Aristogeiton, the assassins of the tyrant Hipparchos and symbols of the Athenian democracy. An initial pair, made by Antenor were erected in the Athenian Agora ca. 510 BC, taken away to Susa by the Persians in 480 BC and returned by Alexander or one of his successors in the late fourth century BC. A replacement pair, made by Kritios and Nesiotes were erected in the Athenian Agora in 477 BC. With few exceptions it was forbidden to erect other statues in the vicinity. Part of the base of the second pair has been found, but not in situ.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The Stoa Poikile or Painted Stoa, named for a set of paintings inside depicting Athenian military victories, was located in the northwest corner of the Agora of Athens and was the namesake of the Stoic philosophical school. It was built around 460 BC and remained in use until it was spoliated in the sixth century AD. Archaeological excavation has uncovered the western and eastern ends of the building.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • The circuit wall of Athens, built by Themistokles in 479 BC. It was abandoned as indefensible in the aftermath of the Herulian Sack of 267 AD.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A communal tomb dated to 424 BCE that was once crowned by a lion.
    Creators: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A ruined Medieval tower in Boeotia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:

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