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).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 28, 2019 10:49 AM
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373786
32.109789, 20.091198
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 12401 (750 BC - AD 300)
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- Euesperides (750 BC - AD 300)
- Εὐεσπερίδας (Euesperides: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Euesperites (750 BC - AD 300)
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settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 B1 Euesperides
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Benghazi
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Euesperides: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373786> [accessed: 05 July 2022]
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