Euesperides
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Euesperides was the westernmost Greek colony of Cyrenaica. The remains of the site are found on the outskirts of modern Benghazi near the north Libyan coast. Under Ptolemy III Euergetes, the new city of Berenice was built a short distance southwest of Euesperides and the original site was subsequently abandoned.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373786
32.145666, 20.096022
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Euesperides (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Euesperides (750 BC - AD 300)
- Εὐεσπερίδας (Euesperides: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Euesperites (750 BC - AD 300)
- Ἑσπερίς (Hesperis: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Euesperides founded by Cyrene (750 BC - 550 BC)
- Euesperides part of (administrative) Cyrene (550 BC - 330 BC)
settlement, archaeological site
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B1 Euesperides
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Benghazi
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Euesperides: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373786> [accessed: 13 June 2025]
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