Aigaion Antron
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 18, 2020 02:06 PM
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History
A cave on Crete sacred to the Minoans that may be the Diktaean cave, the putative site of Zeus' birth in Greek mythology.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589675
35.165365, 25.428883
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15846 (750 BC - AD 300)
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- Aigaion Antron (750 BC - AD 300)
- Aigaion Antron part of (physical/topographic) Aigaion (unspecified date range)
- Aigaion Antron connection Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Aigaion Antron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Psykhro/Diktaian cave
J. Bennet, G. Reger, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aigaion Antron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589675> [accessed: 02 June 2023]
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