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05 October 2026

Free, three-part "Getting Started" online workshop now taking registrations for November 2026. Details via the events page for the first of the three sessions: pleiades.stoa.org/events/getti

This is a linked, three-part series designed to get new participants acquainted with policies and trained in processes for using, modifying, and creating new content in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. Previously trained individuals seeking a refresher course are also welcome to participate. There are no prerequisites for this free online training workshop other than interest and internet access, but registration in advance is required.

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05 October 2026

Last Week in the (28 September - 5 October 2026): over the course of the last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 98 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Fabio Carminati, Damian Noah Dimitrov, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee and R. Scott Smith.

A list of all new and changed resources complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la

05 October 2026

Export Updates 2026-10-05:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 95 updated places. 6 new and 59 updated linked data sidebars.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

73f10e2f - updated json
000c09fd - updated rdf/ttl
3d0d3157 - updated gis package
b4b83f5d - updated data quality
1662bc18 - updated bibliography
d3854cc3 - updated indexes
0894e996 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

97b96b51 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

b89fd48d - updated pleiades wikidata

02 October 2026

In November there will be two, one-hour presentations on Zoom about adding new records for bibliographic works to the Pleiades Zotero library, correcting records currently in the Zotero library, and constructing references using those records in Pleiades place, name, location, and connection resources. These sessions, which will be identical in content, are intended primarily for existing Pleiades contributors who are not familiar with recent changes (August 2026) to processes, procedures, and documentation for bibliographic data in Pleiades. New contributors are welcome, but may find it better to enroll in the three-part "Getting Started" workshops series, which covers this topic in the third session (date and time announcements coming soon).

Visit pleiades.stoa.org/events for details and to register to receive the Zoom link for your session of interest.

02 October 2026

Last Week in the (21-28 September 2026): over the course of the previous week the Pleiades editorial college published 11 new and 152 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Damian Noah Dimitrov, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Gabriel Mckee, Chiara Palladino, R. Scott Smith and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la

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Last week the editorial college published 6 new and 190 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, and Rune Rattenborg.
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 May 2024)

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. It stretches from western Europe in the northwest to the southern Red Sea in the south and the Bay of Bengal in the southeast.

New Place Resources

  • A building on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens with an attached courtyard, built in the second half of the 5th century BC. It is perhaps to be identified with the house of the Arrhephoroi, but other identifications have been proposed.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The findspot of an Urartian inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A house on the Acropolis of Athens, the residence of the Arrheporoi ('bearers of unspoken things'), two girls, who helped weave Athena's cloak for the Panathenaia festival and carried a box containing the 'unspoken things' down from the Acropolis to a precinct near the sanctuary of Aphrodite in the Gardens during the Arrhephoria festival. The house is possibly to be identified with Building III on the Acropolis.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling; Jeffrey Becker
  • The findspot of a small stone with a cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • The tomb and shrine of Kekrops, first king of Athens, located on the Acropolis. In the sixth century BC it was marked by a giant Ionic column, which was destroyed in the Persian Sack of 480 BC. The site was partially covered by the southwestern corner of the Erechtheion in the second half of the fifth century BC.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • An open-air precinct dedicated to Pandrosos, located on the Acropolis of Athens, at the west side of the Erechtheion. It contained the sacred olive tree of Athena and an altar of Zeus Herkeios.
    Creators: Chris de Lisle
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Modified Place Resources