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Sanctuary of Heracles (Thespiai)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Mar 26, 2024 01:16 PM — History
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Pausanias describes a Sanctuary of Heracles located at Thespiai with a virginal priestess. This priestess, says Pausanias, was one of the 50 daughters of Thestius. The precise location of the sanctuary is not known today.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/571386563

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unlocated, sanctuary (religious center)

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Jeffrey Becker, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Sanctuary of Heracles (Thespiai): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/571386563> [accessed: 02 May 2024] 

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