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Poseidonia/Paestum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jul 09, 2024 10:24 AM History
A major Greco-Roman center of south Italy, Poseidonia/Paestum was originally founded by Greeks from Sybaris in the seventh century BC, who named the settlement Poseidonia. After the Pyrrhic war, the city became a Latin colony named Paestum ca. 273 BC.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442733

40.4208483394, 15.0050786006

settlement, archaeological site

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 B4 Poseidonia/Paestum

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Paestum


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I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Noura Alavi, Levi Noble, Robert B Camp, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Alex Biad, Keri Lynne Porter, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, John Muccigrosso, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Poseidonia/Paestum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442733> [accessed: 04 October 2024]

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