Pithekoussai (settlement)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 14, 2025 09:01 AM
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History
In the eighth century BCE, Euboean Greeks from Eretria and Chalcis established an emporion on the island of Ischia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433026
40.7580256, 13.8820005
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- OSM location of Pithecusae (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pithekoussai (750 BC - 550 BC)
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- Lacco Ameno (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Pithekoussai (settlement) located on Aenaria/Pithekoussai (island) (unspecified date range)
- Pithekoussai (settlement) part of (regional) Magna Graecia (750 BC - 550 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 E4 Pithekoussai
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Lacco Ameno
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pithekoussai (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433026> [accessed: 13 February 2026]
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