Monte Adranone (Adranon?)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jun 29, 2026 02:17 PM
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History
An indigenous center of the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. that became Hellenized, Monte Adranone in Sicily is probably to be identified with the ancient name Adranon, but not to be confused with another Sicilian Adranon (located to the east at modern Adrano).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462073
37.6867097935, 13.1410142854
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Area archeologica di Monte Adranone (750 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Adranon (750 BC - 30 BC)
- Monte Adranone (Italian, modern)
- Monte Adranone (Adranon?) connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 47 C3 Adranon?
- BTCGI X, 257-65 (Concetta Antonella Di Noto)
- DiodSic (Oldfather; Perseus) 14.37.4
- Fiorentini 1995
- Il sito di Monte Adranone
- New Pauly Adranum (Hadranum) (Giacomo Manganaro)
- PECS (Perseus) MONTE ADRANONE Sicily
- Papa 1997
- Regione Siciliana: Area archeologica di Monte Adranone
- ToposText Adranon?/Monte Adranone (Sicily)
- TrecEnc "MONTE ADRANONE" (G. Fiorentini, Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica, 1995)
- Wikipedia (Italian) Monte Adranone
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 C3 Adranon?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Monte Adranone
R.J.A. Wilson, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Monte Adranone (Adranon?): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462073> [accessed: 09 September 2026]
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