Palike
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 08, 2025 09:47 AM
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History
An ancient settlement in east central Sicily, atop the Rocchicella, which included a sanctuary to the Divine Palikoi (a pair of boiling lakes) within a grotto found on the hillside.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465970
37.329954, 14.697361
- Representative Locations:
- Hestiaterion, at Grotto of the Divine Palikoi, Rocchicella di Mineo, Sicily (750 BC - AD 850) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Area archeologica di Palikè (Italian, modern)
- Παλική (Palike: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Palike connection Palikoi/Palicorum Stagna (unspecified date range)
- Palike connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), settlement, architectural complex
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 Palike
Town in east central Sicily, close to Palikon Limne (called Palicorum Stagna in The Barrington Atlas).
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Perry Scalfano, and Tom Elliott, 'Palike: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/465970> [accessed: 17 May 2026]
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