Loukou
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
Feb 26, 2020 04:32 PM
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History
A villa of Roman Imperial date, attributed to Herodes Atticus and his heirs. The modern name comes from the nearby Moni Loukous, or monastery of Loukou (St. Luke?), which may sit above an early Christian church.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570437
37.4106635, 22.677597
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13529 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- Imagery location of Villa of Herodes Atticus (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Λουκού (Loukou: Modern Greek)
- None
- Roman aqueduct bridge located at Loukou (unspecified date range)
settlement, villa
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 D3 Loukou
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Loukou, Eva, Moni Loukous
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Dan Diffendale, and Tom Elliott, 'Loukou: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570437> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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