Pollusca
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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Jun 17, 2023 07:31 PM
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History
Pollusca was an early city of Latium Vetus connected with Longula and Corioli. Coriolanus captured these three cities in 488 BC. The location of Pollusca is no longer known.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438813
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Pollusca part of (regional) Latium Vetus (region) (unspecified date range)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Pollusca
The ancient city of Polusca is known only from the textual sources which report that, along with Longula, it was founded by Volscians from Antium and that it numbered among the earliest cities of Latium.
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Pollusca: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438813> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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