Neapolis
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 20, 2012 02:02 PM
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History
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/465960
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - 330 BC)
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- Neapolis (550 BC - 330 BC)
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None
settlement
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Neapolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: town in S Sicily
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Neapolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465960> [accessed: 06 March 2026]
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either Neapolis in territory of Akragas (Plut. V. Dion.49.1), a part of Leontini (Diod. Sic. 16.72.2, or the best-known, the newer district of Syracusa (will be ToposText 371153DNea), otherwise not in Pleiades.