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Campi Phlegraei

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: N. Purcell

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Dec 10, 2021 01:07 PM — History

The Campi Phlegraei (Phlegraean Fields) is a large caldera (13 km wide) in the Bay of Naples region of Italy. In total, the the area comprises 24 craters, although a good portion of the caldera now lies under water. The area was important in Greek and Roman times; the Greeks established their first mainland colony at Cumae within the Campi Phlegraei.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432744

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.827, 14.139

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- approximate centerpoint of the Phlegraean Fields (modern)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Campi Flegrei (Italian, modern)
- Phlegraean Fields (English, modern)
- Phlegraei Campi (Latin, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Φλεγραῖον πεδίον (Phlegraîon pedíon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Campi Phlegraei makes connections with:

None

Campi Phlegraei receives connections from:

Bauli connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)
Capua bounds Campi Phlegraei (550 BC - 30 BC)
Nola bounds Campi Phlegraei (550 BC - 30 BC)
Vesuvius M. bounds Campi Phlegraei (550 BC - 30 BC)
Grotto of the Sibyl connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)
Gallinaria Silva connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)
Gaurus M. connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)
Cumae/Kyme (Campanian) bounds Campi Phlegraei (30 BC - AD 2099)
Dikaiarcheia/Puteoli bounds Campi Phlegraei (30 BC - AD 2099)
Piscina Mirabilis located in Campi Phlegraei (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
Lucrinus (lake) part of (regional) Campi Phlegraei (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
Avernus L. connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)

Place type:
plain, region, volcano

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Campi Phlegraei

Details:

Surviving Hellenistic Greek sources treat the Phlegrean Fields as a large area, roughly bounded by Capua, Nola, and Mount Vesuvius. Writers of the Roman period seem to have in mind a smaller area, lying between Cumae and Puteoli (Gargini provides citations in Brill's New Pauly). Modern vulcanologists refer to the Campi Flegrei volcano, understanding its location, extent, and history from a scientific perspective that both differs from and contextualizes the ancient perspectives (see Costa 2021, pages 4-8 and map in Figure 3).

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Suggested citation:
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Campi Phlegraei: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432744> [accessed: 19 May 2022]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432744 |title=Places: 432744 (Campi Phlegraei) |author=Purcell, N. |accessdate=May 19, 2022 8:15 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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