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Actium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.M. Murray

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

Last modified Aug 13, 2016 12:07 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:

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

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C4 Actium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aktion, formerly Punta

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
W.M. Murray, DARMC, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Actium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530771> [accessed: 26 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530771 |title=Places: 530771 (Actium) |author=Murray, W. |accessdate=April 26, 2018 2:53 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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