Onchestos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 20, 2018 09:18 AM
—
History
Onchestos was located northwest of Thebes and was the site of an ancient cult of Poseidon. Prior to the Macedonian period the Boeotian confederacy met here.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540984
38.373269, 23.150267
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 14015 (750 BC - AD 640)
-
- Ὀγχηστὸς (Onchestos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Agora of Onchestos located at Onchestos (unspecified date range)
- Bouleuterion of Onchestos located at Onchestos (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 E4 Onchestos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kazarma
J. Fossey, J. Morin, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, Dan Diffendale, and Tom Elliott, 'Onchestos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540984> [accessed: 02 June 2023]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540984 |title=Places: 540984 (Onchestos) |author=Fossey, J., J. Morin |accessdate=June 2, 2023 2:42 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}