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Palaia Pleuron

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, Tom Elliott

Last modified Jun 03, 2022 08:35 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

The original location of the ancient city of Pleuron, which was reportedly destroyed in the third century BCE. There is debate concerning its location. After the destruction, a new site was selected for the city. It is known as "Nea Pleuron" (q.v.).

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540999

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.394477, 21.418785

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 14085 (750 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Palaia Pleuron (750 BC - 30 BC)

Palaia Pleuron makes connections with:

Palaia Pleuron located near Achelous (river) (550 BC - 330 BC)
Palaia Pleuron located near Euenos (river) (550 BC - 330 BC)

Palaia Pleuron receives connections from:

Nea Pleuron succeeds Palaia Pleuron (330 BC - 30 BC)

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 A4 Palaia Pleuron

Details:

Strabo put Palaia Pleuron somewhere on the coastal plain between the rivers Achelous and Euenos, close to the city of Calydon. N. Boncasa, writing for the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, follows earlier scholarship in writing "the ruins of the more ancient city are [north] of the newer one and consist of a few remnants of Cyclopean walls". The Wikipedia article currently copies this assertion verbatim. The Barrington Atlas compilers specifically prefer a locality they call "Gyphtokastro/Petrovouni". K. Freitag (Brill's New Pauly) is less willing to speculate; he glosses Strabo and opines only that Old Pleuron "probably lay in the vicinity of New P."

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Suggested citation:
J. Fossey, J. Morin, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, and Tom Elliott, 'Palaia Pleuron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540999> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540999 |title=Places: 540999 (Palaia Pleuron) |author=Fossey, J., J. Morin |accessdate=November 21, 2024 6:00 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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