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Actium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.M. Murray

Contributors: DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert

Last modified Sep 02, 2018 11:30 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=0, Apollo, dare:feature=temple

Site of an ancient temple of Apollo near which Octavian erected a monument to commemorate his naval victory over M. Antonius in 31 BCE.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530771

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.953115, 20.768402

Locations:

DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300)
DARMC location 16304 (750 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Actium (750 BC - AD 300)
Ἄκτιον (Áktion: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)

Actium makes connections with:

Actium connection Actium Pr. (unspecified date range)

Actium receives connections from:

None

Place type:
shrine, monument

References:

See Further:

See Also:

New Pauly, Actium

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C4 Actium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aktion, formerly Punta

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Suggested citation:
W.M. Murray, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Pierre Motylewicz, and R. Talbert, 'Actium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530771> [accessed: 17 July 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530771 |title=Places: 530771 (Actium) |author=Murray, W. |accessdate=July 17, 2019 10:56 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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