Aethusa (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
One of the Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, used as a naval base by the Romans during the Punic Wars.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/772
35.8657228387, 12.867635727
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Isola di Linosa (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Aethusa (island) located in Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
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island
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 1 F3 Aethusa Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Linosa ITL
R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Aethusa (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/772> [accessed: 10 February 2026]
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