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Olynthos

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.N. Borza

Contributors: Michelle Willoughby, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jeremiah Bartlett, R. Talbert

Last modified Jan 02, 2020 07:13 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

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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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.29456, 23.3484365

Locations:

DARMC location 24145 (750 BC - 330 BC)
DARE Location (750 BC - 330 BC)

Names:

Ὄλυνθος (Olynthos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 30 BC)
Olynthus (Latin, 550 BC - AD 300)

Olynthos makes connections with:

None

Olynthos receives connections from:

House A VII 4 at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
House of Many Colors at Olynthos (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos

Details:

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.

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Suggested citation:
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, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678> [accessed: 03 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678 |title=Places: 491678 (Olynthos) |author=Borza, E. |accessdate=July 3, 2020 1:10 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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