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🌍 Dioscourias (Pontos)

  • <div data-attribute_names="[]"><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="9721249" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_9721249">Dionysios, <span style="font-style: italic;">Periegesis</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11304347" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11304347">Pomponius Mela<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11292578" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11292578">Strabo<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11328051" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11328051">Pliny, <span style="font-style: italic;">Natural History</span></span></span></div>
  • Alternative names
    Dioscurias
    Information
    city on the Black Sea
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857107
    Founded by
    👤 Castor (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian Boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Telchios founder of Dioscourias👤 Amphitos founder of Dioscourias
    Eponym
    👥 the Dioscouroi (alt. Castor, Polydeuces) alternative name for Castor and Polydeuces, brothers of Helen
    Mentioned in Text
    Dionysios, PeriegesisPomponius MelaStraboPliny, Natural History
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