So-called Oratory of Phalaris
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 16, 2023 09:02 AM
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History
A small, rectangular Greek temple-type building dated to the first century B.C. and located in the upper agora of Agrigento, on the Poggetto di San Nicola. The name "Oratory" comes from its later use as a Christian chapel.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/946753455
37.296636174, 13.5885778853
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Oratorio di Falaride" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Oratorio di Falaride (Italian, modern)
- Oratory of Phalaris (English, modern)
- So-called Oratory of Phalaris connection Akragas/Agrigentum (unspecified date range)
- So-called Oratory of Phalaris part of (physical/topographic) Upper Agora at Akragas/Agrigentum (unspecified date range)
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temple
Pleiades
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called Oratory of Phalaris: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/946753455> [accessed: 09 October 2024]
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