Leuke Ins./Achilleos Nesos
Creators: David Braund
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226677
45.2537945088, 30.2046501936
- Representative Locations:
- location of Leuke Ins./Achilleos Nesos (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Snake Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ἀχίλλειος δρόμος (Achilleios Dromos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)
- Ἀχιλλέως νῆσος (Achilleos Nesos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)
- Λευκὴ (Leuke: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)
- О́стрів Змії́ний (Ostriv Zmiyinyy: Ukrainian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Φιδονήσι, Φιδονήσι Εύξεινου πόντου (Phidonisi: Modern Greek)
- insula Achillis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Leuke Ins./Achilleos Nesos located in Pontus Euxinus (unspecified date range)
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island
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 23 D3 Leuke Ins./Achilleos Nesos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Zmeinyi. For Pliny the Elder, the Racecourse of Achilles (Dromos Achilleos) is located some 125 miles from the island, near to the coast of Crimea and close to the mouth of the Dnieper in this place.
David Braund, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Diane Braund, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Leuke Ins./Achilleos Nesos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226677> [accessed: 05 October 2024]
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