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Surroundings:

DionDion Roman bathsDion, House of ZosasDion, House of ZosasDion, House of ZosasDion, The Villa of DionysusDion, The Villa of DionysusDion, The Villa of DionysusDion, The Villa of DionysusDionysus houseSanctuary of Demeter, DionDion temple of DemeterTemple of Isis, Dion, 2018Temple of Isis, Dion, 2018Temple of Isis, DionDion temple of IsisAsclepieon of DionAsclepieon of DionAsclepieon of DionAsclepieon of DionStadium of DionDion theaterDion, Hellenistic theaterDion Roman theater

Location:

  • Greece, Díon
  • geo:40.177013,22.491299
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -6xx~ / 4xx~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Dion - Adun - ancient Capitolias, one of the Decapolis cities (a ten-city Greco-Roman federation)  is located on the site of the village of Beit Ras.

Pausanias: These were made by Tisander, but the next were made by Alypus of Sicyon, namely:—Theopompus the Myndian, Cleomedes of Samos, the two Euboeans Aristocles of Carystus and Autonomus of Eretria, Aristophantus of Corinth, Apollodorus of Troezen, and Dion from Epidaurus in Argolis1.

See:

  1. Pausanias: Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918

References

  1. Pausanias X.9


Nearby

Dion, Polygonal Building

Polygonal Building.

Dion, Episcopal Basilica

Basilica. The early fifth century.

Dion, Triconch Building

Martyrion, Triclinium?


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