Tomis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.G. Poulter Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.G. Poulter Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 16, 2020 05:39 AM
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History
Tomis was founded as a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast ca. 600 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217016
44.1728565, 28.6497375
- DARMC location 24141 (550 BC - AD 640)
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640)
- Tomis connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 22 F4 Tomis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Constanţa
Augustus exiled the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso to Tomis in AD 8. Ovid would write the lamentations Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto at Tomis and died there in AD 17.
A.G. Poulter, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tomis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217016> [accessed: 12 May 2021]
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