Eryx (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Mount Eryx is a mountain of western Sicily. The mountain is mentioned by numerous ancient authors; notably in the Aeneid Virgil discusses it in relation to Venus Erycina.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462202
38.0352882, 12.5921448
- Representative Locations:
- location of Monte Erice (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- mons Eryx (Eryx: Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Eryx (mountain) connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 B2 Eryx M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Erice
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Eryx (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462202> [accessed: 21 April 2025]
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