Tainaron (settlement)
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
Jan 20, 2022 09:26 PM
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History
An ancient settlement, located near the tip of a southern peninsula of the Peloponnese (modern Cape Matapon in Greece). The site featured a sanctuary of Poseidon and served as both a port and a mercenary staging and recruitment area at least as early as the Classical period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570702
36.4013585697, 22.486503682
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ancient Tainaron (750 BC - AD 300)
- Tainaron (settlement) part of (physical/topographic) Peloponnesus/Peloponnesos/Peloponnese (unspecified date range)
- Tainaron (settlement) located on Tainaron (promontory) (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Poseidon at Tainaron located at Tainaron (settlement) (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C5 Tainaron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tainaron
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tainaron (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570702> [accessed: 21 September 2023]
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