Dion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 16, 2023 10:21 PM
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History
Dion was a settlement of Pieria located on the border between Macedonia and Thessaly. It was held, traditionally, as the place of Orpheus' death and burial. The adjacent modern village, now known as Dion, is sometimes also referenced by its earlier modern name Malathria.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491572
40.1763880562, 22.491436824
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Αρχαιολογικό Πάρκο Δίου (750 BC - AD 640)
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Dion (750 BC - AD 640)
- Dion connection Pieria (unspecified date range)
- Hellenistic theater at Dion located at Dion (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Isis at Dion located at Dion (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 B4 Dion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Malathria/Dion
E.N. Borza, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, and Ryan Horne, 'Dion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491572> [accessed: 03 October 2023]
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