Neaethus (river)
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).
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
Jun 02, 2026 09:46 AM
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History
A river of Bruttium (modern Neto in Italy) mentioned in various sources. It is identified in the epitome of Apollodorus as the location where the Trojan women burned the Trojan ships after arriving in Italy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452389
39.2419347916, 16.7721954244
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Neto (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- amnis Neaethus (Neaethus: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- fiume Neto (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Neaethus (river) flows into Ionium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Meto located on Neaethus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Verzino located on Neaethus (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 F3 Neaethus fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Neto
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Neaethus (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452389> [accessed: 16 June 2026]
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