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
Aug 14, 2024 05:09 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.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589675
35.1647, 25.45
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Psychro Cave (modern) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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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), cave
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- Related:
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, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589675> [accessed: 22 March 2025]
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