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Hiera Orgas

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Oct 21, 2025 12:13 PM — History
The Hiera Orgas or ‘sacred meadow’ was a tract of land sacred to Demeter and Persephone. It featured in at least two conflicts between Athens and Megara. It was likely located to the north of the Iapis River on the Megarian side of the Athens-Megara border.

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Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle, 'Hiera Orgas: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/66782793> [accessed: 18 November 2025] 

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