Dorion
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).
Last modified
Jul 06, 2020 10:47 AM
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History
A fortified hilltop settlement overlooking the Soulima Valley in northern Messenia. Dorion appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570202
37.254095, 21.880939
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 12244 (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Δώριον (Dorion: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Achaia (spring) located near Dorion (30 BC - AD 300)
- Acropolis of Malthi located at Dorion (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B3 Dorion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Malthi
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Dorion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570202> [accessed: 25 December 2024]
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