Herakleia
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
Oct 16, 2017 12:18 PM
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History
A now unlocated settlement of western Sicily, Herakleia lies somewhere in the area of Mt. Eryx. It was likely founded in the fifth century B.C.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465907
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (750 BC - 550 BC)
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- Ἡρακλείη (Herakleia: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 550 BC)
- Herakleia part of (physical/topographic) Sicilia (island) (550 BC - 330 BC)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Herakleia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: settlement in W Sicily
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Herakleia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465907> [accessed: 07 June 2023]
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