Sanctuary of Poseidon (Onchestos)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 26, 2024 01:17 PM
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History
tags:
Poseidon
Pausanias describes a Sanctuary of Poseidon located at Onchestos that preserved a grove sacred to the god and that Homer had once praised.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/162490152
38.3624807061, 23.145073108
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Ναός Ογχηστίου Ποσειδώνα (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- ναός καὶ ἄγαλμα Ποσειδῶνος Ὀγχηστίου (naos kai agalma Poseidonos Onchestiouναός καὶ ἄγαλμα Ποσειδῶνος Ὀγχηστίου: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Sanctuary of Poseidon (Onchestos) located at Onchestos (30 BC - AD 300)
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sanctuary (religious center), archaeological site
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Sanctuary of Poseidon (Onchestos): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/162490152> [accessed: 09 October 2024]
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