Lemnos (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 19, 2023 05:30 PM
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History
A large volcanic island in the northern Aegean Sea. Lemnos appears frequently in Greek myth, not least as the crash-landing place of the god Hephaestos (Vulcan) when he was thrown from Mount Olympus by Zeus for attempting to protect his mother Hera.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550693
39.9050198225, 25.229093534
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Lemnos (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Lemnos (unspecified date range)
- Lemnos (island) connection Sporades (archipelago) (unspecified date range)
- Ag. Sophia located at Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Hephaistia part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Herakles, T. connection Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kabeireion part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kaminia part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Kokkinos part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Koukonesi part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Mosychlos (mountain) part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Myrina connection Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Palaio Pretorio part of (physical/topographic) Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Poliochne connection Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Artemis at Avlonas located on Lemnos (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 A2 Lemnos Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Lemnos GRE
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Perry Scalfano, and Tom Elliott, 'Lemnos (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550693> [accessed: 06 June 2023]
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