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Location

  • Greece, Díon
  • geo:40.177013,22.491299

Period or year

  • -6xx~ / 4xx~

Classification

  • city
  • Visible

Identifiers

Dion

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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 Argolis. 1.

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

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2012-05-29) , last updated by Elżbieta (2018-10-05), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/2208
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Elżbieta (2018) Dion. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/2208, accessed 2026-11-15.