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Therapnae
(329 words)

(Θεράπναι/Therápnai).

[German version]

[1] City in Crete

City in Crete, probably in the central north (presumably between Eleutherna and Cydonia; [cf. 1. 198]), reckoned one of the island's more important towns (Mela 2,113; Plin. HN 4,59).

Sonnabend, Holger (Stuttgart)

Bibliography

1 P. Faure, La Crète aux cents villes, in: Κρητικὰ Χρονικά 13, 1959, 171-217.

[German version]

[2] Place in Laconia

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Sparta

Cult site in Laconia (Laconica) on the …

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Sonnabend, Holger (Stuttgart), Tausend, Sabine and Fell, Martin (Münster), “Therapnae”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 29 January 2020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1210200>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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