Temenos of Athena
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
Dec 11, 2021 11:02 PM
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History
Area on the north-east side of the Piana di Himera, delimited by walls and containing four religious buildings (temples A, B, C and D), probably dedicated to Athena. The foundations are still visible in the archaeological site of Himera.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/421330490
37.9710806, 13.8225455
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the Temenos of Athena (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Temenos di Athena (Italian, modern)
- Temenos of Athena connection Himera (unspecified date range)
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wall, earthwork (deprecated), sanctuary (religious center), architectural complex
Pleiades
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Temenos of Athena: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/421330490> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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