Bema
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 20, 2024 12:41 PM
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History
A speaker's platform erected on the eastern side of the Athenian Agora by or for Roman generals in the late second or early first centuries BC.
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/935360966
37.975125, 23.723903
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location: Bema (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- τὸ βῆμα (tò bêma: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Bema located in Agora of Athens (330 BC - AD 300)
- Bema located west of Stoa of Attalos (330 BC - 30 BC)
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Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, and Tom Elliott, 'Bema: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/935360966> [accessed: 06 March 2025]
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