Mouseion Hill
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne
Creators: Ryan Horne
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Dec 12, 2025 04:03 PM
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History
A hill located near the acropolis of Athens. Pausanias discusses fortifications in the Hellenistic period; later the Philopappos Monument was built at the summit.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/968858713
37.9675643, 23.7221248
- Representative Locations:
- OpenStreetMap location of Philopappos Hill (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Μουσεῖον (Mouseion: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Philopappus Hill (English, modern)
- Mouseion Hill part of (physical/topographic) Athenae (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Gate at Hag. Dimitrios Loumbardiaris/Gate XIV located on Mouseion Hill (unspecified date range)
- Kimonian monuments located at Mouseion Hill (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Philopappos Monument located on Mouseion Hill (unspecified date range)
- Prison of Sokrates located at Mouseion Hill (unspecified date range)
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Ryan Horne, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, R. Scott Smith, Jeffrey Becker, Greta Hawes, and Tom Elliott, 'Mouseion Hill: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/968858713> [accessed: 20 May 2026]
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