Proitidian Gate (Thebes)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Anika Campbell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Anika Campbell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 01, 2026 04:13 PM
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History
One of the Seven gates that surrounds the city of Thebes, on the road to Chalkis. It is possibly to be identified with or proximal to some extant remains of Mycenean fortification walls.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/291401357
38.3211, 23.3198
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
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- Proitid Gate (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Προιτίδες πύλαι (Proitides pylai: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Proitidian Gate (Thebes) part of (physical/topographic) Thebai/Thebae (30 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Dionysus Lysios (Thebes) located near Proitidian Gate (Thebes) (30 BC - AD 300)
gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
Anika Campbell, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Proitidian Gate (Thebes): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/291401357> [accessed: 13 June 2026]
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