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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Jun 11, 2019 09:44 PM
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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
- House A VII 4 at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
- House of Many Colors at Olynthos (unspecified date range)
settlement
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 50 D4 Olynthos
- Cahill 2002
- Excavations at Olynthus.
- New Pauly, Olynthus
- PECS (Perseus), OLYNTHOS Chalkidike, Greece
- Perseus site catalog: Olynthus (Site)
- RE Olynthos
- 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, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491678> [accessed: 25 June 2019]
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