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Selinunte: History, Archaeological remains & Coinage

Selinunte (/ˌsɛlɪˈnuːnteɪ/ SEL-in-OON-tay, Italian: ; Ancient Greek: Σελῑνοῦς, romanized: Selīnoûs ; Latin: Selīnūs ; Sicilian: Silinunti ) was a rich and extensive ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia on the south-western coast of Sicily in Italy. It was situated between the valleys of the Cottone and Modione rivers. It now lies in the comune of…

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Selinunte topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Archaeological remains and Coinage as prominent areas in the source structure around Selinunte.

Related topics
165
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
170
Extracted relationships
137
Related term clusters
25
Bridge connections
170

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Archaeological remains · 90 topics
History · 45 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Coinage · 9 topics
Art and other discoveries from Selinus · 8 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Location
Marinella di Selinunte, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy
Abandoned
Approximately 250 BC
Area
377 ha (930 acres)
Built
628 BC
Management
Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Trapani
Periods
Archaic Greece to Hellenistic period

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Selinunte
4Hera · Aphrodite · Athena
3Archaic Greece · Megaron · Crepidoma
3Heroon · Empedocles · Diogenes Laërtius
12Ancient Greek language · Romanization of Ancient Greek · Latin language
7Belice River · Thucydides · Megara Hyblaea

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Overview

History

Archaeological remains

Coinage

Art and other discoveries from Selinus

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Selinunte connects Entity context

The extracted context around Selinunte shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Selinunte → Apart, Apollo, Athena, Attic, Carthaginians, Castelvetrano, Christian, Corinthian, Demeter, Greek Sicily, Greek West, Hades, Heracles, Malophoros, Museo Archeologico, Palermo, Pasicrateia, Persephone, Phobos, Ponte Galera Another extracted example is Selinunte → Agathocles, Although Dionysius, Aquae Labodes, Carthage, Carthaginian, Carthaginians, Dionysius, Elder, First Punic War, Heracleia, Himera, Itineraries, Larodes, Lilybaeum, Pliny, Ptolemy, Pyrrhus, Romans, San Calogero, Sciacca. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Selinunte

Top relations

related to Art and other discoveries from Selinus · 38
Selinunte → Apart, Apollo, Athena, Attic, Carthaginians, Castelvetrano, Christian, Corinthian, Demeter, Greek Sicily, Greek West, Hades, Heracles, Malophoros, Museo Archeologico, Palermo, Pasicrateia, Persephone, Phobos, Ponte Galera
related to Destruction · 27
Selinunte → Agathocles, Although Dionysius, Aquae Labodes, Carthage, Carthaginian, Carthaginians, Dionysius, Elder, First Punic War, Heracleia, Himera, Itineraries, Larodes, Lilybaeum, Pliny, Ptolemy, Pyrrhus, Romans, San Calogero, Sciacca
related to history · 26
Selinunte → Ancient Greek, Belice, Cnidus, Diodorus, Greece, Greek, Greek Elymian, Hieronymus, Hypsas, Lilybaeans, Lipara, Marsala, Megara, Megara Hyblaea, Megara Hyblaea's, Pammilus, Phoenicians, Rhodes, Segesta, Segestans
related to Captured by Carthage · 22
Selinunte → According, Acragas, Agrigento, Athenian, Carthage, Carthaginians, Dionysius, Empedion, Gela, Hamilcar, Hannibal, Hannibal Mago, Hermocrates, Himera, Lilybaeum, Segestans, Selinuntines, Shortly, Subsequently, Syracuse
related to The Sicilian Expedition · 16
Selinunte → Africa, Athenian, Athenians, Athens, Gylippus, Nicias, Peloponnesian, Segesta, Segestans, Selinuntines, Sicily, Syracusans, Syracuse, The Athenians, The Selinuntines, Thucydides
Abandoned · 1
Selinunte → Approximately 250 BC
Area · 1
Selinunte → 377 ha (930 acres)
Built · 1
Selinunte → 628 BC
Location · 1
Selinunte → Marinella di Selinunte, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy
Management · 1
Selinunte → Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Trapani

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Important terminology

temple selinus city east metres acropolis north columns west area two naos temples greek pronaos remains sicily hill century archaic

Selinunte relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 137 structured relationships around Selinunte. Examples in this analysis include Selinunte → Abandoned → Approximately 250 BC and Selinunte → Area → 377 ha (930 acres). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SelinunteAbandonedApproximately 250 BC1.00infobox
SelinunteArea377 ha (930 acres)1.00infobox
SelinunteBuilt628 BC1.00infobox
SelinunteLocationMarinella di Selinunte, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy1.00infobox
SelinunteManagementSoprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Trapani1.00infobox
SelinuntePeriodsArchaic Greece to Hellenistic period1.00infobox
SelinunteTypeSettlement1.00infobox
SelinunteWebsiteParco Archeologico di Selinunte (in Italian)1.00infobox
Selinunterelated to Art and other discoveries from SelinusThe Great Table0.60section
Selinunterelated to Art and other discoveries from SelinusSelinus0.60section
Selinunterelated to Art and other discoveries from SelinusTemple0.60section
Selinunterelated to Art and other discoveries from SelinusThe Selinuntines0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Selinunte bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sicily, West and Di. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • ancient greek
    • Sanctuary
    • Sicily
    • Greek
    • Remains
    • Selinunte
    • Acropolis
    • East
    • Hill
    • Demeter
    • West
    • Di
    • Archaic
  • Selinunte
    • Sicily
    • West
    • Di
    • East
    • Large
    • Period
    • One
    • Sanctuary
    • Acropolis
    • Area
    • Temple
    • Demeter
  • selinunte
    • Sicily
    • West
    • Di
    • East
    • Large
    • Period
    • One
    • Sanctuary
    • Acropolis
    • Area
    • Temple
    • Demeter
  • marinella di selinunte
    • Sicily
    • Columns
    • East
    • West
    • Metopes
    • Period
    • Apollo
    • Archaic
    • Di
    • Selinunte
    • Sanctuary
    • Greek
  • acropolis
    • North
    • Temples
    • Hill
    • Ancient
    • East
    • Remains
    • Part
    • South
    • Wall
    • Sanctuary
    • Area
    • Two
  • archaic
    • Metopes
    • Long
    • Columns
    • East
    • Selinus
    • Remains
    • Temple
    • Di
    • Period
    • Adyton
    • Sicily
    • Sanctuary
  • cave di cusa
    • Columns
    • East
    • West
    • Metopes
    • Period
    • Apollo
    • Archaic
    • Selinunte
    • Sanctuary
    • Greek
    • Remains
    • Acropolis
  • greek medicine
    • Sicily
    • Selinunte
    • West
    • Di
    • Apollo
    • Selinus
    • Sanctuary
    • Remains
    • Acropolis
    • East
    • Temple
    • Demeter

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Selinunte, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Selinunte with Archaeological remains. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Selinunte — Archaeological remains · splits 80 ⟂ 91
Selinunte — History · splits 125 ⟂ 46
Selinunte — Overview · splits 157 ⟂ 14
Selinunte — Coinage · splits 161 ⟂ 10
Selinunte — Art and other discoveries from Selinus · splits 162 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Selinunte

Nodes171
Edges170
Triples137
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011696
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Selinunte to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Archaeological remains & Coinage, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Selinunte · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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