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A Note on Pliny' Iresia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Colin Imber
Colin Imber
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University of Manchester
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Extract

In his account of the Northern Sporades, Pliny names the islands of Iresia, Solymnia, Eudemia, and Nea as lying off the Gulf of Salonica, but gives no clue as to the individual identity of each island.

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , May 1979 , pp. 222
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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