Taygetos (mountain)
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 13, 2024 05:16 PM
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History
The major mountain range of the Peloponnese, running north/south for over 100km. In antiquity, it separated Laconia from Messenia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570706
36.953544, 22.349956
- Representative Locations:
- location of Taygetos M. (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Taygetos (Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Taygetos (mountain) connection Lacedaemon/Laconia (unspecified date range)
- Euoras located on Taygetos (mountain) (unspecified date range)
- Taleton Akra part of (physical/topographic) Taygetos (mountain) (30 BC - AD 300)
mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C3 Taygetos M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Taygetos
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Taygetos (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570706> [accessed: 30 January 2025]
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