Sacred Grove near Mount Pontinos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 17, 2019 01:26 PM
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History
According to Pausanias, there was a grove of plane trees, with temples and dedications to Aphrodite, Demeter, and Dionysos that stretched from the foot of Mount Pontinus (near Lerna) "to the sea." Its precise location cannot be determined today.
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/69536363
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- Amymone bounds Sacred Grove near Mount Pontinos (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pontinos (mountain) bounds Sacred Grove near Mount Pontinos (30 BC - AD 300)
- Pontinos (river) bounds Sacred Grove near Mount Pontinos (30 BC - AD 300)
grove, unlocated
- Evidence:
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Sacred Grove near Mount Pontinos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/69536363> [accessed: 10 April 2025]
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