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Location

  • Türkiye, Güzelçamlı
  • geo:37.713551,27.235741

Period or year

  • -7xx / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Not visible

Panionion

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Panionion was an Ionian sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios dates bac to the IV/VIIIth century BC.. It was the centre of the Ionian dodecapolis and was a place of  the religious assembly of  Ionians accompanied by a great festival - Panionia. The sanctuary was on Prienian territory and under that city management1Homer for the first time performed his epics in front of a larger audience ca. 700 BC2.

  1. https://www.academia.edu/50652400/Douglas_Frame_and_Homer_in_the_Panionion_What_is_left_of_Poseidon_Helikonios_His_Sanctuary_and_His_Bulls

References

  1. ↑George E. Bean, Aegean Turkey, London Benn Ltd., 1966, p.216-218
  2. ↑Gregory Nagy, Homer the Preclassic - http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/3273

Relevant museums

  • Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
    Germany, Berlin

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-05-05) , last updated by p. jeffries (2024-03-12), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/26781
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Jeffries, P. (2024) Panionion. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/26781, accessed 2026-11-15.