Eurysakeion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 15, 2024 10:18 AM
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History
A sanctuary dedicated to Eurysakes, son of Ajax on the Kolonos Agoraios in Athens, which served as the central sanctuary of the tribe Aiantis. It has not been located archaeologically, but the findspots of related inscriptions suggest it was somewhere southwest of the Hephaisteion.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79269910
37.97551645, 23.72131295
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- Εὐρυσάκειον (Eurusákeion: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Eurysakeion located near Hephaisteion (550 BC - AD 300)
- Eurysakeion located on Kolonos Agoraios (550 BC - AD 300)
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shrine
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Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Eurysakeion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79269910> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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