Selenes (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 26, 2020 11:38 AM
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History
A quasi-mythical mountain or range of mountains in equatorial Africa said to be the source of the Nile river. Some traditions associate the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda as the location of this ancient place.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40304
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unlocated, mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 Selenes M.
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D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Selenes (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/40304> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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