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🏛️ the Epidamnian Treasuries (Olympia)

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  • Information
    at Olympia
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106956826
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/964672520
    In
    🌍 Olympia (Elis)
    Encompasses
    🎨 Statue Group of Heracles in the Garden of the Hesperides in the Epidamnian Treasury, Olympia (LIMC Atlas 6) 🎨 Statues of the Hesperides, originally in a Group in the Epidamnian Treasury at Olympia ()
    Reported to have depictions of
    👤 Atlas holds up the sky as punishment👤 Heracles greatest Greek hero👥 the Hesperides nymph guardians of the Golden Apples🏺 the Golden Apples of the Hesperides👤 Ladon (serpent) serpent guarding the Golden Apples🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable) unlocatable place where apples are guarded
    Related entities
    🌍 Epidamnos (Illyria) city in Illyria, later refounded by the Romans as Dyrrachium
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 6.19.8📖 Pausanias 5.17.1-5.17.2
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