Olenia Petra
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
Jun 06, 2023 03:34 PM
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History
An ancient mountain or outcrop in Elis mentioned by Homer, Pausanias, and others. Strabo tentatively identifies it with mount Skollis (modern Santomeri).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573404
37.96832, 21.578235
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- Ὠλενίη πἐτρη (Olenia Petra: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Less than certain: Olenia Petra same as Skollis (mountain) (unspecified date range)
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unlocated, mountain
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- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 Olenia Petra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: in Elis, same as Skollis M.?
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Olenia Petra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573404> [accessed: 11 March 2025]
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