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Last Week in Pleiades (29 April - 6 May 2024)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 178 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle.
Last Week in Pleiades (29 April - 6 May 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from the British Isles and Strait of Gibraltar in the west to Mesopotamia and the southwest tip of the Arabian peninsula in the east.

New Place Resources

  • An apsidal structure on the Acropolis of Athens, built in the late 6th-century BC, destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC, and perhaps repaired in the first half of the 5th century. It was probably located on the site of the northwest wing of the later Propylaia, which would have superseded it in 437 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A utilitarian building constructed in the southeast corner of the Acropolis of Athens in the first half of the 5th century BC and torn down to make way for Building IV later in the same century.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors:
  • A column topped by a winged female figure on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated in 490 BC by the polemarch Kallimachos to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Marathon. It was destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • A large temple on the Acropolis of Athens, begun in the 480s BC and destroyed during the Persian Sack of 480 BC, while still under construction. Parts of the structure were incorporated into the north wall of the Acropolis and other structures in the mid-fifth century BC and the Parthenon was built on the same site, using some of the older structure's foundations, beginning in 447 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors:
  • A gateway at the western end of the Acropolis of Athens, which replaced the Mycenaean gateway in the 480s BC and was destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC, while still under construction. It might have been rebuilt in the 460s BC, but was replaced by the Mnasiklean Propylaea from 437 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • A treasury located on the Acropolis of Athens, which is attested from 434/3 BC. It may have been the repaired west porch of the old temple of Athena Polias or the west part of the Parthenon. Under this name, the latter was certainly the residence of King Demetrios Poliorketes from 307-304 BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • A small temple on the Acropolis of Athens that might have existed from the 470s B.C. until replaced by the Erechtheion, perhaps in the 420s B.C. It might have hosted the cult of Athena Polias and/or Erechtheus.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian empire established in Thrace in 513 BC by Darius I and Megabazus and abandoned in 479 BC following the failure of Xerxes' invasion of Greece. It was a minor satrapy, subordinate to the central main satrapy of Lydia.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

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