Historical place profile
Eresos
An ancient settlement on the island of Lesbos (modern Skala Eresou), reputed birthplace of the poet Sappho. Strabo describes it as being built on a hill (presumably the modern Vigla) and extending down to the sea.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:550533
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:550533
- Place type
- hill, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.133148, 25.935414
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement on the island of Lesbos (modern Skala Eresou), reputed birthplace of the poet Sappho. Strabo describes it as being built on a hill (presumably the modern Vigla) and extending down to the sea.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 B3 Eresos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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