Echetla
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
Feb 12, 2025 05:08 PM
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Demeter
An ancient settlement, attested by literary or documentary sources, whose precise location cannot be determined today
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465884
37.2327642, 14.6240607
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Echetla (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Echetla (330 BC - AD 300)
- Echetla connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Echetla
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: town in E Sicily. In 263 BC Appius Claudius Caudex unsuccessfully laid siege to Echetla. While the Barrington Atlas does not offer a precise location, some scholars (viz. G. Falco in New Pauly) associate the ancient site with the ruins on the hill of Occhiolà near Grammichele. The remains of a sanctuary dedicated to Demeter have been excavated there.
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, and Tom Elliott, 'Echetla: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465884> [accessed: 12 July 2025]
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