Pelargikon wall
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Pelargikon refers to a line of defensive walls located at the western foot of the Athenian Acropolis.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/992770796
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- Πελασγικόν (Pelasgikon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Pelargikon wall bounds Acropolis of Athens (unspecified date range)
- Pelargikon wall located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
- Cave of Pan located near Pelargikon wall (30 BC - AD 300)
wall (defensive), wall (of a city), city wall
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Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Pelargikon wall: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/992770796> [accessed: 13 May 2026]
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