Myrtonion

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Ryan Horne

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Aug 14, 2015 11:01 PM — History

A fortress in Thrace, whose precise location is now unknown.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528109753

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.4856931307, 26.9099553718

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Μυρτηνὸν (Myrtenum: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Μυρτώνιον (Myrtonion: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 1450)

Myrtonion makes connections with:

Myrtonion connection Thracia (unspecified date range)

Myrtonion receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, fort, tower (deprecated)

References:

Evidence:

Dem. 18.27

See Further:

Harris, E. Monroe. 1995. Aeschines and Athenian Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 165.

Citation:

Suda s.v. Μυρτώνιον

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Myrtonion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528109753> [accessed: 27 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/528109753 |title=Places: 528109753 (Myrtonion) |author=Horne, R. |accessdate=March 27, 2025 5:54 am |publisher=Pleiades}}