Arainon
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
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Last modified
Apr 19, 2024 10:06 AM
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History
An ancient settlement of Laconia, mentioned by Pausanias. Kiesling (ToposText) notes: "Based on the similarity of the names, Forster placed Arainos/Arainon at the modern coastal village of Ageranos. Just to the south, at Kamares, survives the apse of a very large Roman building, and traces of Roman settlement." Roman era remains, including possible harbor constructions (submerged), have also been identified just north of Ageranos at Vathy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570099
36.6961924667, 22.5229433667
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location: modern Αγερανός (AD 1900 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: ToposText Location: Roman remains at Kamares (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: Imagery Location: ancient harbor at Vathy (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Arainon (750 BC - AD 300)
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harbor, ruin, settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D4 Arainon
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ageranos
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Arainon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570099> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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