Euryelos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 19, 2018 05:17 PM
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History
A fortress built by Dionysius the Elder 9 km west of Syracuse, in the modern hamlet of Belvedere (Sicily).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462204
37.0915251525, 15.2235172413
- OSM location of Castello Eurialo (550 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 19118 (550 BC - 30 BC)
- Euryelos connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
- Euryelos connection Syracusae/Syrakousai (unspecified date range)
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fort, tower
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G4 Euryelos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: W extremity of Epipolai
The fortress was first built by Dionysius I between 402 and 397 B.C. Various future modifications took place under Agathocles and Hiero II. The fortress remained in use following the Roman conquest of 212 B.C., continuing up to the Byzantine period.
R.J.A. Wilson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Euryelos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462204> [accessed: 26 February 2021]
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