You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Cadmea

Cadmea

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Ryan Horne

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling

Last modified Feb 25, 2023 03:02 PM — History

The acropolis / fortress of Thebes. The fortress was destroyed by Alexander the Great in 335 B.C. and later rebuilt by Cassander in 316 B.C.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/239936126

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.3194, 23.3167

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of Cadmea (750 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- καδμεία (Cadmeia: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)

Cadmea makes connections with:

Cadmea part of (physical/topographic) Thebai/Thebae (750 BC - 30 BC)

Cadmea receives connections from:

None

Place type:
acropolis

References:

Evidence:

See Further:

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Cadmea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/239936126> [accessed: 26 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/239936126 |title=Places: 239936126 (Cadmea) |author=Horne, R. |accessdate=April 26, 2024 12:58 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Cadmea