Cythera (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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An Aegean island located off the southeastern peninsula of the Peloponnese. It appears frequently in Greek and Roman literature beginning with Homer.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570186
36.2401136145, 22.982874966
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kythira (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ins. Cytera (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Κύθηρα (Kythera: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Cythera (island) located in Aegaeum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Kythera (settlement) located on Cythera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Phoinikous located on Cythera (island) (unspecified date range)
- Skandeia located on Cythera (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 inset Cythera Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kythera
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, Catherine Bouras, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cythera (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570186> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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