Pandosia
Ancient city · Heraclea Lucania
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.244, 16.557
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient human settlement in Lucania
History
Pandosia was an ancient town of Lucania, Italy, situated near Heraclea. It has often been confounded with Pandosia in Bruttium; but the distinct existence of a Lucanian town of the name is clearly established by two authorities. Plutarch describes Pyrrhus as encamping in the plain between Pandosia and Heraclea, with the river Siris in front of him; and the celebrated Tabulae Heracleenses repeatedly refer to the existence of a town of the name in the immediate neighborhood of Heraclea. From these notices we may infer that it was situated at a very short distance from Heraclea, but apparently further inland; and its site has been fixed with some probability at a spot called Santa Maria d'Anglona, about 11 km from the sea, and 6.5 km from Heraclea.