Pyra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Fossey, J. Morin Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 14, 2019 03:21 PM
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History
A place with preserved ruins of a Doric temple dated to the third century B.C., Pyra is connected in the sources with the pyra of the hero Herakles.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541080
38.750364, 22.305481
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 16155 (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Herakles, T. (750 BC - AD 640)
- Pyra (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
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sanctuary (religious center), temple
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 55 C3 Pyra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Makrorrakhi
J. Fossey, J. Morin, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, G. Reger, and Tom Elliott, 'Pyra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541080> [accessed: 17 May 2022]
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