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🌍 Aigeira (Achaia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10188036" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10188036">📖 Pausanias 7.26.5</span>
  • Information
    city in Achaia
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18363976
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570043
    In
    🌍 Dodecapolis (Achaia)
    Identified with
    🌍 Hyperesia (Argolid) unlocatable city in the Argolid, later identified with Aigeira
    Cult site of
    👤 Iphigeneia daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra
    Encompasses
    🎨 Statues of Tyche and Eros in Aigeira (Not Extant) 🎨 Pentelic Marble Statues of Sarapis and Isis in Aigeira (Not Extant)
    Reported to have depictions of
    🏺 the Horn of Amaltheia👤 Eros personification of love👤 Tyche personification of fortune, luck👤 Isis Egyptian goddess👤 Sarapis a form of the syncretised Egyptian gods Osiris-Apis
    Related entities
    🌍 Hyperesia (Argolid) unlocatable city in the Argolid, later identified with Aigeira👤 Artemis Olympian goddess🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) city in the Argolid👥 the Ionians ethnic collective👤 Iphigeneia daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra🌍 Olenos (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Aigion (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Helice (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Dyme (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Boura (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Ceryneia (Achaia) city in Achaia🌍 Rhypes (Achaia) city in Achaia
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 7.26.1-7.26.2📖 Pausanias 7.26.5📖 Pausanias 7.26.7📖 Pausanias 7.26.8📖 Strabo 8.7.5
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasStrabo
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Aeschylus
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Aeschylus fr. 284 Radt
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Aigeira (Achaia) city in Achaia
    Reported to have local traditions about
    👤 Iphigeneia daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra🌍 Aigeira (Achaia) city in Achaia
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 7.26.5
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