Aletrium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Oct 15, 2023 04:40 PM
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History
A Hernican hill town that formed part of a sixth century B.C. defensive league against Volscian and Samnite aggression and allied itself to Tarquinius Superbus. Rome eventually took Aletrium in 306 B.C.; by the first century B.C. the site was a Roman municipium.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664
41.724822, 13.343955
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- Aletrium connection Hernici (unspecified date range)
- Aletrium part of (regional) Latium Adiectum (unspecified date range)
- Acropolis of Aletrium located at Aletrium (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 D2 Aletrium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alatri
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Aletrium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664> [accessed: 09 December 2023]
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