Orthia
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
Sep 12, 2024 05:08 PM
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History
An ancient village (demos) of Elis, mentioned by Pausanias in recounting the mythological backstory of some regional religious cultural practices of his day. Its precise location cannot now be determined.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573420
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Orthia (unspecified date range)
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settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 Orthia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Elis: village
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Orthia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573420> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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