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10 May 2024

Today's sneak peek is the Pandroseion, 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...

See further: hcommons.social/@paregorios/11

10 May 2024

Export Updates 2024-05-10:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

4 new and 59 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

d4872b80 - updated legacy csv
67be6b78 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
713e8c1b - updated gis package
2c60bd11 - updated data quality
7c926b39 - updated bibliography
977f6c81 - updated indexes

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

c26f0d85 - updated geojson and names index

09 May 2024

Export Updates 2024-05-09:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

54 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

8745fc33 - updated legacy csv
3aa3572a - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
41d0ddba - updated gis package
137872b6 - updated data quality
860432f6 - updated bibliography
0b529c65 - updated indexes

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

8617229d - updated geojson and names index

07 May 2024

Export Updates 2024-05-07:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

2 new and 33 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

27f9a7c0 - updated legacy csv
84fb0e05 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
2d36ab07 - updated gis package
fa7e3841 - updated data quality
1c59b38f - updated bibliography
e77c7ddb - updated indexes

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

61ec473d - updated geojson and names index

06 May 2024

Export Updates 2024-05-06:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

136 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

c8b7fe15 - updated legacy csv
941c93b0 - updated json
f135e7aa - updated rdf/ttl
9f8aa5ac - updated gis package
f988bef4 - updated data quality
a1725f90 - updated bibliography
05be823f - updated indexes

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

10ae5030 - updated geojson and names index

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Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 March 2023)

Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 March 2023)

by Tom Elliott last modified Mar 20, 2023 11:05 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 11 new place resources and approved updates to 112 existing place resources.

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Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 March 2023)

by Tom Elliott last modified Mar 13, 2023 07:29 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 17 new place resources and approved updates to 103 existing place resources.

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by Tom Elliott last modified Mar 10, 2023 05:30 PM
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by Sean Gillies last modified Mar 10, 2023 05:11 PM
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Pleiades was represented in a special session on gazetteers at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers

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Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation

Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation

by Tom Elliott last modified Mar 03, 2023 09:36 AM
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Pleiades is hungry for new bibliographic references. Let's build a community effort to monitor scholarly publications for work that can enhance, correct, and expand the gazetteer in the history, archaeology, linguistics, and mythology of spaces and places in the ancient world.

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Changelog: February 2023

Changelog: February 2023

by Tom Elliott last modified Mar 01, 2023 09:14 AM
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The changelog for January 2023 has been posted: 37 new and 345 updated places.

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Last Week in Pleiades (20-27 February 2023)

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by Tom Elliott last modified Feb 27, 2023 08:45 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new place resources and approved updates to 252 existing place resources.

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Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 February 2023)

Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 February 2023)

by Tom Elliott last modified Feb 21, 2023 07:17 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college approved updates to 37 existing place resources.

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Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 February 2023)

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by Tom Elliott last modified Feb 13, 2023 08:46 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 6 new place resources and approved updates to 56 existing place resources.

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by Tom Elliott last modified Feb 06, 2023 10:09 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new place resources and approved updates to 28 existing place resources.

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Changelog: January 2023

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by Tom Elliott last modified Feb 02, 2023 10:39 AM
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The changelog for January 2023 has been posted: 124 new and 196 updated places.

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Last Week in Pleiades (23-30 January 2023)

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by Tom Elliott last modified Jan 30, 2023 04:42 PM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new place resources and approved updates to 48 existing place resources.

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by Tom Elliott last modified Jan 23, 2023 09:05 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 71 new place resources and approved updates to 37 existing place resources.

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Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 January 2023)

Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 January 2023)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jan 17, 2023 09:16 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new place resources and approved updates to 30 existing place resources.

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Changelog: December 2022

Changelog: December 2022

by Tom Elliott last modified Jan 11, 2023 10:18 AM
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The changelog for December 2022 has been posted: 39 new and 404 updated places.

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Last Three Weeks in Pleiades (19 December 2022 - 9 January 2023)

Last Three Weeks in Pleiades (19 December 2022 - 9 January 2023)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jan 11, 2023 10:05 AM
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Over the last three weeks the Pleiades editorial college published 25 new place resources and approved updates to 273 existing place resources. This blog post provides an annotated list of the affected resources with links to each.

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Last Week in Pleiades (12-19 December 2022)

Last Week in Pleiades (12-19 December 2022)

by Tom Elliott last modified Dec 19, 2022 10:27 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new place resources and approved updates to 97 existing place resources.

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Last Week in Pleiades (5-12 December 2022)

Last Week in Pleiades (5-12 December 2022)

by Tom Elliott last modified Dec 19, 2022 10:23 AM
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Last week we published 5 new place resources. In addition, 43 existing place resources were updated.

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New and Updated Changelogs: January - November 2022

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by Tom Elliott last modified Dec 05, 2022 02:41 PM
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Monthly changelogs have been posted or revised for the 2022 year to date. This includes the first publication of changelogs for October and November.

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Last Week in Pleiades (28 November - 5 December 2022)

by Tom Elliott last modified Dec 05, 2022 12:05 PM
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Last week we published 11 new place resources. In addition, 113 existing place resources were updated.

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