Olynthos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jeremiah Bartlett, R. Talbert
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Last modified
Dec 22, 2021 04:33 AM
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History
Olynthos was an ancient city of the Chalcidice, founded in the seventh century B.C. and destroyed in 348 B.C. by the forces of Philip II of Macedon.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678
40.2952974079, 23.3542208572
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - 330 BC)
- OSM location of Αρχαιολογικός χώρος Ολύνθου (750 BC - 30 BC)
- None
- Mekyberna part of (administrative) Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- House A VII 4 located at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- House of Many Colors located at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
settlement
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos
- Cahill 2002
- Dimova 2019 131
- New Pauly Olynthus
- PECS (Perseus), OLYNTHOS Chalkidike, Greece
- Perseus site catalog: Olynthus (Site)
- RE Olynthos
- Robinson and Mylonas 1929-1952
- Stoa.org, Household and City Organization at Olynthus
- ToposText Olynthos (Halkidiki)
- Wace 1914/1915, 11-15
- Wikipedia (English) Olynthus
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nea Olynthos.
David Moore Robinson of Johns Hopkins University conducted twentieth century (1928-1934) excavations that brought the archaeological site to light and published a multi-volume series of archaeological reports. Nicholas Cahill carried out extensive work on the organization of the city and its domestic architecture.
E.N. Borza, Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jeremiah Bartlett, and R. Talbert, 'Olynthos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678> [accessed: 02 July 2022]
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