Ortygia (island)
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).
Last modified
Aug 08, 2020 10:43 AM
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History
A coastal island of Sicily that became the center of ancient Syracuse.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462402
37.0570712, 15.29293
- Representative Locations:
- location of Ortygia Ins. (modern)
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- Ortygia (550 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Arethusae Fons located on Ortygia (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G4 Ortygia Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ortygia (Siracusa)
R.J.A. Wilson, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Ortygia (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462402> [accessed: 03 October 2023]
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