Poseidonia/Paestum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors:
Robert B Camp, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Alex Biad, Keri Lynne Porter, Noura Alavi, R. Talbert, Levi Noble
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442733
40.42064875, 15.00532475
- DARMC location 18805 (750 BC - AD 300)
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300)
- Oenotri (Attested dates needed)
- Temple of Hera II (Neptune) (Attested dates needed)
- Temple of Athena at Paestum (Attested dates needed)
- Forum of Paestum (Attested dates needed)
- Ekklesiasterion (Poseidonia/Paestum) (Attested dates needed)
- Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum (Attested dates needed)
- Temple of Hera I (the "Basilica") (Attested dates needed)
- Roman amphitheater at Paestum (Attested dates needed)
- Underground Shrine (Attested dates needed)
- Porta Marina tower of Poseidonia/Paestum (Attested dates needed)
- Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele (Attested dates needed)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Aristot. Mir. 839a 30
- AttiMGrecia 27 (1987)
- BAtlas 45 B4 Poseidonia/Paestum
- Bragantini, I. et la. 2008. Poseidonia Paestum. V : les maisons romaines de lÎlot Nord. Rome: Ecole Française de Rome.
- Brun, Jean-Pierre. 1998. "Une parfumerie romaine sur le forum de Paestum." Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité 110.1:419-72
- Greco and Theodorescu 1980.
- Greco et al. 1983
- Greco et al. 1987
- Greco, E. et al. 1999. Poseidonia-Paestum. / IV, Forum Ouest-Sud-Est. Rome: Ecole française de Rome.
- Longo 2012
- New Pauly, Paestum
- New Pauly, Poseidonia, Paistos, Paestum
- PECS (Perseus), PAESTUM (Pesto) Campania, Italy
- Pedley, J. G. 1990. Paestum, Greeks and Romans in southern Italy. New York: Thames & Hudson.
- Pedley, J. G. et al. 1993-2002. The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum. Rome: G. Bretschneider.
- RE Poseidonia/ Paestum 3
- Rouveret, Agnès. 1975. "L'organisation spatiale des tombes de Paestum." Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité 87.2:595-652.
- SEG 12-412
- Sewell 2010
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), PAESTUM
- UNESCO World Heritage List, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
- Wikipedia, Paestum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 B4 Poseidonia/Paestum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Paestum
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, Robert B Camp, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Alex Biad, Keri Lynne Porter, Noura Alavi, R. Talbert, and Levi Noble, 'Poseidonia/Paestum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442733> [accessed: 30 September 2016]
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