Agde

Description

Agatha (modern Agde), also known as Agatha Tyche, was a colonial foundation of ca. 525 B.C. The colony was founded by Phocaean Greeks from Massilia.

Evidence

• Str. (Meineke: Perseus) 4.1.5

  Strabo. Strabonis Geographica: recognovit Augustus Meineke. Edited by August Meineke. 3 in 2 vols. Lipsiae, 1877.

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• Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.33.1

  Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.

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• Ptol. 2.10.2

See Further

• BAtlas 15 A3 Agatha

  Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.

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• Bérard 1990

  Bérard, O., A. Nickels, and M. Schwaller,. “Bérard 1990 — O. Bérard, A. Nickels and M. Schwaller, ‘Agde,’ in Voyage en Massalie: 100 ans d’archéologie en Gaule du Sud, pp. 182-89, Marseille, 1990.,” 182–89. Marseille, 1990.
• Nickels 1981

  A. Nickels. “Recherches Sur La Topographie de La Ville Antique d’Agde (Hérault).” Documents d’archéologie Méridionale 4 (1981): 29–50.
• New Pauly, Agatha

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• PECS (Perseus), AGATHA (Agde) Hérault, France

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• Wikipedia (English) Agde

  Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Agde.

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• ToposText Agathe (Gallia)

  Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.

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See Also

• RFO 160

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• Wikipedia (English) Ephebe of Agde

  Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Ephebe of Agde.

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