Nekromanteion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 12, 2025 05:10 PM
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History
An ancient sanctuary of necromancy sacred to Hades and Persephone located on the banks of the Acheron River in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra.
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531011
39.2361922138, 20.5341987257
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Nekromanteion (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Nekromanteion (750 BC - 30 BC)
- Nekromanteion located at Ephyra/Kichyros (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), temple
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C3 Nekromanteion
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W.M. Murray, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Nekromanteion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531011> [accessed: 26 April 2025]
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