Liternum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 07, 2023 05:46 PM
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History
An ancient city of Campania located near the mouth of the Volturnus river; a Roman colony was established at Liternum in 194 B.C. The site is most famous as the location of the villa of Scipio Africanus, as described by Seneca.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432911
40.9210656031, 14.0300735059
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Liternum, Lago Patria (330 BC - AD 300)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 44 F4 Liternum
- Bodel, John. 1997. "Monumental Villas and Villa Monuments." JRA 10:5-35
- GAL Campania 90-91
- Indagini archeologiche nel foro della colonia romana di Liternum
- New Pauly, Liternum
- PECS (Perseus), LITERNUM Italy
- Sito Archeologico di Liternum
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), LITERNUM
- ToposText Liternum (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Liternum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Liternum
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N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Liternum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432911> [accessed: 30 November 2023]
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