Petelina (mountains)
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
Apr 09, 2026 11:14 AM
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History
An unlocated mountainous area to which Plutarch has Spartacus reposition before his forces' defeat of the Roman force commanded by Quintus and Scrophas. Its precise location is not known, but presumably lies in the vicinity of Petelia (modern Strongoli).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/456113
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Πετηλῖνα (Petelina: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, mountain
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 Petelina M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Petelia?
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Petelina (mountains): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/456113> [accessed: 16 June 2026]
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