Aceste
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
Sep 03, 2024 04:50 PM
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History
An ancient settlement in Sicily that can no longer be located with precision, Aceste should be considered as distinct from Segesta as these places are enumerated separately in Cicero's prosecution of Caius Verres.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465838
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- Aceste (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Ăcestaei (Acestaei: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ăcestenses (Acestenses: Latin, unspecified date range)
- Aceste located on Sicilia (island) (30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Aceste
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: town on E coast?; E central Sicily?. Writing in BTCGI, G. Bejor asserts that the reference to "Acesta" in book 5 of the Aeneid should be taken as a reference to Segesta and not Aceste.
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aceste: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465838> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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