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Geographical Dictionary
Phigalia to Zone

Characters
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Abae to Byzeres
Cabeiraea to Elysium
Emathia to Lycastus
Lyceum to Phicium
Phigalia to Zone

Phigalia. City in Arcadia founded by Phigalus, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.2, 8.39.1].

Philyres. People living in the northeastern part of Asia Minor, east of the Mossynoeci [Arg.2.393].

Phlegrae. Pallene, where the GIANTS were born [Apd.1.6.1, 2.7.1; Arg.3.234, 3.1227].

Phlegyans (Phlegyes). People living in Thessaly [Hom.Il.13.302; Nonn.18.36].

Phliasia. Place near Sicyonia [Pau.2.13.1, 2.12.4-6, 2.14.1].

Phlius. City in the Peloponnesus [Arg.4.568; Hyg.Fab.14].

Phocaea. Ionian city in Asia Minor between the Elaitic and the Hermaean Gulfs [Apd.Ep.3.33].

Phocis. Region bordering the Gulf of Corinth west of Boeotia [Apd.1.9.4, 2.4.7, 3.4.1, 3.5.7, 3.14.7; Apd.Ep.3.11, 6.14, 6.22, 6.24; Arg.1.207; Hom.Il.2.516, 2.525, 17.307; Hyg.Fab.14, 117; Nonn.13.123, 37.144; Ov.Met.1.313, 2.569, 5.276, 11.348].

Phoenicia. Coastal region in the Near East north of Palestine [Apd.2.1.4, 3.1.1; Apd.Ep.3.4, 6.29; Cal.Del.19; Hom.Il.23.744; Hom.Od.4.83, 13.272, 14.288, 14.291, 15.415, 15.417, 15.419, 15.473; Hyg.Fab.178; Nonn.4.231, 45.112, 45.117; Ov.Met.3.46].

Pholoe. Mountain in eastern Elis near the Arcadian border [Apd.2.5.4].

Phrygia (I). A hill in Trachis [Cal.Ar.159].

Phrygia (II). A large region in Asia Minor [Apd.2.4.5, 3.5.1, 3.12.3; Apd.Ep.3.8, 3.35; Arg.1.937, 1.1126, 1.1139, 1.1166, 2.787; Cal.Ap.23; Cal.BP.18; Hom.Il.2.862, 3.184, 3.401, 10.431, 16.719, 18.291, 24.545; Hyg.Fab.30, 104, 135, 274; Nonn.9.188, 10.177, 13.150, 13.522, 13.535, 14.270, 14.284, 14.297, 22.6, 22.94, 25.372, 27.34, 27.227, 27.306, 28.85, 32.224, 33.252, 34.214, 37.650, 40.151, 40.224, 43.430, 43.447, 45.61, 47.21, 48.90, 48.239, 48.425, 48.426, 48.442, 48.451, 48.669, 48.718, 48.888; Ov.Met.6.146, 6.177, 6.400, 8.162, 8.621, 11.91, 11.203, 12.70, 12.148, 12.38, 12.612, 13.44, 13.244, 13.337, 13.389, 13.429, 13.435, 13.579, 13.721, 14.79, 14.547, 14.562].

Phthia. City of Phthiotis in southern Thessaly [Apd.1.7.2, 1.8.2, 3.13.1, 3.13.2; Apd.Ep.6.13; Arg.1.55, 1.94, 2.514, 2.520; Hom.Il.1.155, 1.169, 2.683, 9.253, 9.363, 9.395, 9.439, 9.479, 9.484, 11.766, 13.686, 13.693, 13.699, 16.13, 19.299, 19.323, 19.330; Hom.Od.11.496, 13.156; Hyg.Fab.14, 97, 173a].

Phthiotis. A part of southern Thessaly [Cal.Del.112].

Phthires. Mountain in Caria [Hom.Il.2.868].

Phylace. Thessalian city west of the Gulf of Pagasae [Apd.1.9.12; Apd.Ep.3.14; Arg.1.45; Hom.Il.2.695, 2.700, 13.696, 15.335; Hom.Od.11.290, 15.236].

Phylleus. Mountain in Thessaly [Arg.1.37; Hyg.Fab.14].

Phyllis. River in Bithynia [Arg.2.652].

Phyllos. City in Thessaly [Ov.Met.12.479].

Physadeia. Spring at Argos [Cal.BP.47].

Pieria. Region about Mount Olympus in northern Thessaly [Apd.1.3.2, 3.10.2; Arg.1.34, 4.1222; Hes.The.53; Hom.Il.2.766, 14.226; Hom.Od.5.50; Nonn.2.400, 41.224].

Pimpleia (I). Fountain in Pieria, near Mount Olympus [Cal.Del.7].

Pimpleia (II). Small city in southern Macedonia, in the Bistonian plain [Arg.1.25; Nonn.13.428].

Pindus. Mountain in Thessaly [Cal.Del.139; Cal.Dem.82; Ov.Met.1.570, 2.225, 7.225, 11.554].

Piraeus. The harbour of Athens [Ov.Met.6.446].

Pirene. Spring in Corinth [Ov.Met.2.240].

Piresia. City in Thessaly at the foot of Mount Phylleus [Arg.1.37, 1.584; Hyg.Fab.14].

Pisa. City in Elis, where Oenomaus 1 was king [Apd.2.6.3; Apd.Ep.2.4, 2.9; Hyg.Fab.14; Nonn.19.240, 37.170; Ov.Met.5.409, 5.494].

Pitane. On the Eurotas [Cal.Ar.172].

Pithecusae. Island (now Ischia) off the coast of Campania, not far away from Cumae [Ov.Met.14.90].

Pityeia (I). One of the Liburnian Islands in the Adriatic Sea [Arg.4.565].

Pityeia (II). City in the Troad [Arg.1.933].

Placus. City in Cilicia [Hom.Il.6.396, 6.425, 22.479].

Plataea. City between Attica and Boeotia [Apd.3.5.8; Hom.Il.2.504; Nonn.4.336, 13.70; Pau.9.1.1-2].

Pleistus. River at Delphi [Cal.Del.92].

Pleuron. City in Aetolia (see also Calydon) [Hom.Il.2.639, 13.217, 14.116, 23.635; Hyg.Fab.173a; Ov.Met.7.382, 14.494].

Po. River in northern Italy [Hyg.Fab.154].

Pola. Italian city in Istria [Hyg.Fab.23].

Pontus. The Black Sea [Arg.2.346, 2.413, 2.418, 2.579, 2.984, 4.303].

Poros. See Calaurea.

Poseidon Cape. On the Asian coast of eastern Propontis [Arg.1.1279].

Poseidonias. Earlier name of Troezen [Pau.2.30.8].

Practius. Place in the Troad [Hom.Il.2.835].

Praeneste. City east of Rome founded by Caeculus [Strab.5.3.10; Vir.Aen.7.678].

Prasii (Prasians). People extending inland from the mouth of the Ganges, and living round Palibothra (Patna) [Nonn.26.61].

Priene. City in Caria [Pau.7.2.10].

Prochyte. Island off the coast of Campania, southern Italy [Ov.Met.14.89].

Proetidian (Proetian). One of the seven gates of Thebes [Apd.3.6.6; Stat.Theb.8.356].

Propanisos (Paropamisos). Mountain in Asia. Greek name for the Hindu Kush [Nonn.26.51].

Propontis. The Sea of Marmara [Apd.1.9.21; Arg.1.936, 1.983; Hyg.Fab.14, 16, 18, 186, 273].

Psamathus. City in Taenarum [Pau.3.25.4].

Psophis. City in northwestern Arcadia [Apd.2.5.4, 3.7.5, 3.7.6; Ov.Met.5.607].

Psyria. Small island west of Chios [Hom.Od.3.171].

Pteleos. City in Peloponnessus [Hom.Il.2.594, 2.697].

Ptolis. City in Arcadia [Pau.8.8.4].

Ptous. Mountain in Boeotia [Pau.9.23.5].

Pygmies. Tribe of dwarfs inhabiting Africa, India or Scythia [Hom.Il.3.6; Lib.Met.16; Ov.Met.6.90].

Pylene. Place in Aetolia [Hom.Il.2.639].

Pylos. City in Messenia [Apd.1.9.9, 1.9.11, 1.9.12, 2.6.2, 2.7.3, 3.10.2, 3.15.5; Apd.Ep.3.12; Arg.1.157; Hom.Il.1.248, 1.252, 1.269, 2.54, 2.77, 2.591, 4.293, 5.397, 5.545, 7.134, 11.682, 9.153, 9.295, 11.687, 11.689, 11.712,11.716, 11.724, 11.737, 11.753, 11.760, 17.704, 23.303, 23.633; Hom.Od.1.93, 1.284, 2.214, 2.317, 2.325, 2.359, 3.4, 3.31, 3.59, 3.182, 3.485, 4.599, 4.656, 4.702, 4.713, 5.20, 11.257, 11.285, 11.459, 13.274, 14.180, 15.42, 15.193, 15.216, 15.236, 15.541, 16.131, 16.323, 17.42, 17.109, 21.108, 24.152, 24.430; Hyg.Fab.10, 14, 70, 97; Ov.Met.2.684, 6.418, 12.537, 12.542, 12.550].

Pyramus. River in Cilicia [Apd.3.1.1; Nonn.12.84].

Pyrasus. Place in Thessaly [Hom.Il.2.695].

Pytho. Delphi [Apd.1.4.1, 3.15.6; Arg.1.209, 1.308, 1.418, 1.536, 4.530, 4.1704; Hes.The.499; Hom.Il.2.519, 9.405; Hom.Od.8.79, 11.581; Nonn.2.698, 4.291, 9.251, 13.127, 48.709].

Quirinal. Hill in Rome [Ov.Met.14.836].

Rhamnusian. From Rhamnus in Attica [Cal.Ar.232].

Rhebas. River in the Troad [Arg.2.349, 2.650, 2.789].

Rhegium. City in the "toe" of Italy [Apd.2.5.10; Ov.Met.14.5, 14.48].

Rhesus. River in Asia Minor flowing from the mountains of Ida [Hom.Il.12.20].

Rhine. River in western Europe. In Iberia for some [Ov.Met.2.258; Nonn.23.94, 43.410, 46.56, 6.58].

Rhipaean mountains. Snowy mountains existing north of the known parts of Europe [Arg.4.287].

Rhipe (Rhype). City in Achaea [Hom.Il.2.606; Nonn.13.290].

Rhodanus. The Rhône, river in western Europe (Gaul) [Arg.4.627; Ov.Met.2.58].

Rhodes. Island off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor [Apd.2.1.4, 2.8.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2; Apd.Ep.3.13, 6.27; Hom.Il.2.654, 2.655, 2.667; Nonn.14.47; Ov.Met.4.204, 7.365, 12.574].

Rhodius. River in Asia Minor, flowing from the mountains of Ida [Hom.Il.12.20].

Rhodoe. Place in India [Nonn.26.50].

Rhodope. Mountain in Thrace [Hyg.Fab.132; Ov.Met.2.222, 6.87, 6.589, 10.77].

Rhoeteum. Promontory on the northern coast of the Troad [Apd.Ep.5.7; Arg.1.929; Ov.Met.11.197].

Rhyndacus. Mysian river emptying in the Propontis [Arg.1.1165; Nonn.48.242].

Rhytium. City in Crete [Hom.Il.2.648; Nonn.13.235].

Rome. City in Latium, Italy (see also Romulus) [Hyg.Fab.255; Nonn.41.366, 41.390; Ov.Met.1.201, 14.809].

Rutuli (Rutulians). People of Latium [DH.1.64.2; Ov.Met.14.528, 14.567; Vir.Aen.7.passim, 12.224, 12.506].

Sabaeans. People living in Arabia [Ov.Met.10.480].

Sabeiroi. People living in India [Nonn.26.91].

Sabines. People of central Italy [Ov.Met.14.832, 15.4].

Sacai. People living on the Pamir plateau [Nonn.26.340].

Salamis. Island off the coast of Attica in the Saronic Gulf [Apd.1.8.2, 3.12.7; Apd.Ep.3.12; Hom.Il.2.557, 7.199; Hyg.Fab.14, 97, 173a; Nonn.13.482, 39.136].

Salangon. River of Illyria [Arg.4.337].

Salmacis. A fountain in Caria with enfeebling waters [Ov.Met.4.286].

Salmonia. City in Elis [Dio.4.68.1].

Salmonian promontory. Promontory in Crete [Arg.4.1693].

Salmydessus. Thracian city on the Black Sea [Apd.1.9.21].

Same. City in Cephallenia [Apd.Ep.7.28; Hom.Od.1.246, 9.24, 16.123, 16.249, 19.131; Ov.Met.13.711].

Samos. Aegean island off the western coast of Asia Minor [Cal.Del.49; Hom.Il.24.78, 24.753; Hom.Od.4.671, 4.845, 15.29; Hyg.Fab.14; Nonn.14.18; Ov.Met.8.221].

Samothrace. Island in the northern Aegean Sea [Apd.3.12.1; Hom.Il.13.12; Nonn.3.186, 13.393, 29.193, 43.311].

Sangarius. River in Asia Minor flowing into the Black Sea [Apd.3.12.5; Apd.Ep.6.15; Arg.2.722; Hom.Il.3.187, 16.719; Nonn.12.130, 13.519, 13.531, 14.270, 27.36, 48.694, 48.931].

Saoce. Mountain in Samothrace [Nonn.13.397].

Sapeires. People of northeastern Asia Minor (east of the Becheiri) [Arg.2.395, 2.1243].

Sardinia. Large island west of Italy [Apd.2.7.6; Arg.4.633].

Sardis. City in Lydia [Cal.Ar.246; Nonn.13.467, 41.86, 41.88, 41.356; Ov.Met.11.137, 11.152].

Sardo. Sardinia [Cal.Del.21].

Saronic Gulf. Southwest of Attica [Cal.Del.42].

Satnioeis (Saphnioeis). River in the Troad [Hom.Il.6.34, 14.445, 21.87].

Satyrides. Islands near Italy [Pau.1.23.6].

Sauromatae (Sauromatians, Sauromatans). People living on the northern shores of the Black Sea, east of the Sea of Azov [Arg.3.394; Nonn.23.86].

Scaean gate. One of the gates of Troy [Apd.Ep.5.4; Hom.Il.3.145, 3.149, 6.237, 6.306, 6.393, 11.170, 16.712, 22.6, 22.360].

Scamander (Scamandros, Camandros). A river near Troy [Apd.3.12.1, 4.7; Hom.Il.2.465, 2.467, 5.774, 11.499, 12.21, 20.74, 21.124, 21.223, 21.305, 21.603, 22.387].

Scandia. Dia. Island off Crete [Hom.Il.10.268].

Scarphe. A place in Epicnemidian Locris [Hom.Il.2.532; Strab.9.4.4].

Scheria. Corcyra (see also Phaeacians) [Hom.Od.5.34, 6.8, 7.79, 13.160].

Schoenus. City in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.497; Nonn.13.63].

Sciathus. Island south of Magnesia and north of Euboea [Arg.1.583].

Scironian cliffs. On the Saronic coast of the Isthmus of Corinth [Apd.2.8.1; Apd.Ep.1.2; Hyg.Fab.38; Ov.Met.7.447].

Scirum. Place near Eleusis [Pau.1.36.4].

Scolus (Scolon). Place in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.497; Nonn.13.61].

Scyros. Island in the Aegean Sea northeast of Euboea [Apd.Ep.511; Hom.Il.19.326, 19.332; Hom.Od.11.509; Hyg.Fab.96, 97; Ov.Met.13.156].

Scyrus. City in Asia Minor [Hom.Il.9.668; Ov.Met.13.175].

Scythia. Region to the north and northeast of the Black Sea [Apd.1.7.1, 2.1.3; Apd.Ep.6.26; Arg.4.288, 4.320; Cal.Ar.174, 256; Hyg.Fab.145, 274; Nonn.13.246, 25.311, 40.291; Ov.Met.1.64, 2.224, 5.649, 8.788, 10.588; Phil.VA.6.20].

Selemnus. River in Achaea [Pau.7.23.2].

Selleis. River in the Troad [Hom.Il.2.659, 2.839, 12.97, 15.531].

Selli. People living about Dodona [Hom.Il.16.234].

Sepias. Promontory in southern Magnesia [Arg.1.582].

Serbonian lake. In the Nysa mountains [Arg.2.1214].

Seriphos. One of the Cyclades islands [Apd.1.9.6, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3; Hyg.Fab.63, 273; Ov.Met.5.242, 5.251, 7.464].

Sesamus or Sesamon is a city in Paphlagonia, northern Asia Minor, belonging to the Paphlagonian Eneti, who were allies of Troy during the Trojan War, and were led by Bisaltes' son Pylaemenes 1, killed by Menelaus in the course of the war. Pylaemenes 1's son Harpalion 1 followed his father to the war and was killed by Meriones 1 [Arg.2.941; Hom.Il.2.853; Strab.12.3.10].

Sesindion. Place in India [Nonn.26.55].

Sestus. City in the Thracian Chersonesus [Hom.Il.2.836].

Sibai. People living in India [Nonn.26.218].

Sicania. Sicily [Cal.Ar.57; Hom.Od.24.306; Ov.Met.5.464, 5.494, 13.724].

Sicels. People living in southern Italy and later in Sicily [DH.1.12.3, 1.22.5].

Sicily. Large island southwest of Italy [Apd.1.6.2, 1.6.3, 2.5.10; Apd.Ep.1.13, 1.14, 6.15, 7.1; Hom.Od.20.383, 24.211, 24.366; Hyg.Fab.40, 44, 125, 141, 146, 152, 153, 254, 257, 273; Nonn.2.395, 2.623, 6.124, 6.323, 13.309, 13.329, 22.10, 28.190, 28.201, 29.349, 30.68, 30.74, 31.91, 37.169, 37.482, 45.104, 45.117, 47.629; Ov.Met.5.361, 7.65, 8.283, 14.7].

Sicinus. Oenoe, one of the Cyclades Islands [Arg.1.624, 1.625].

Sicyon. City on the Peloponnesian coast of the Gulf of Corinth [Aes.Supp.262; Apd.1.7.6, 2.1.1; Apd.Ep.2.15; Hdt.5.67; Hes.CWE.72; Hom.Il.23.296; Hyg.Fab.145; Pau.2.5.6-8, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, 2.11.5, 2.13.1, 2.28.3, 2.34.4; Stat.Theb.6.556, 9.121].

Side (I). City and harbour on the coast of Pamphylia (southern Asia Minor east of Caria) [Apd.Ep.3.33].

Side (II). City in the easternmost Peloponnesian promontory [Pau.3.22.11].

Sidon. Coastal city of Phoenicia [Apd.Ep.3.4, 6.290; Hom.Il.6.290, 23.743; Hom.Od.4.84, 13.285, 15.425; Hyg.Fab.178; Nonn.1.46, 3.80, 3.324, 4.242, 20.102, 37.661, 41.40, 41.243, 45.113, 46.109; Ov.Met.2.840, 4.572, 10.267, 14.80].

Sigeum. Coastal area and promontory at the mouth of the river Scamander, west of Troy [Apd.1.9.1; Ov.Met.11.197, 12.71, 13.3].

Sigynni. People living in the western coast of the Black Sea [Arg.4.320].

Simois. River near Troy [Cal.BP.19; Hom.Il.4.477, 5.774, 5.777, 6.4, 12.22, 20.53, 21.307; Nonn.3.346; Ov.Met.13.324].

Sindi. People inhabiting the Laurian plain [Arg.4.322].

Sintians. People from Lemnos [Hom.Il.1.594; Hom.Od.8.294].

Siphnos. One of the Cyclades Islands [Ov.Met.7.466].

Sipylus. Mountain east of Smyrna, Asia Minor [Apd.3.5.6; Hyg.Fab.9; Nonn.12.79, 13.534, 14.205, 15.374, 18.24, 48.408, 48.455; Ov.Met.6.149].

Sirenides. Abode of the SIRENS, between Sicily and Italy [Hyg.Fab.141].

Sithonia. Central headland of the Chalcidic peninsula [Con.4; Nonn.3.40, 3.217, 22.179; Ov.Met.6.588, 13.571].

Smyrna. City on the west coast of Asia Minor [Apd.Ep.3.33].

Soli. City in Cilicia [Hes.Mel.8].

Solymi. People in Asia Minor; a Lycian tribe [Apd.2.3.2; Hom.Il.6.184, 6.204; Hom.Od.5.283].

Sparta. City of Laconia [Apd.2.5.7, 3.10.8, 3.11.2, 3.12.6; Apd.Ep.1.23, 2.16, 3.2, 6.29; Arg.1.148, 4.1761, 4.1762; Cal.Ap.74; Hom.Il.2.582, 4.52; Hom.Od.1.93, 1.285, 2.214, 2.327, 2.359, 4.10, 11.460, 13.412; Hyg.Fab.14, 173a, 238; Nonn.16.103, 19.187, 31.262, 35.175, 41.330; Ov.Met.6.414, 10.170].

Spercheus (Sperchius). River in Thessaly [Ov.Met.2.250, 7.230].

Sporades. Group of islands off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor [Arg.4.1711].

Stataloi. Place in Lydia [Nonn.13.474].

Stoechades. Islands off the coast of Liguria [Arg.4.554, 4.654].

Stratia. City in Arcadia [Hom.Il.2.606; Nonn.13.290].

Strophades. Islands off the coast of Acarnania, formerly called Echinadian [Apd.1.9.21; Hyg.Fab.19; Ov.Met.13.709].

Strophia. Unknown river in Boeotia [Cal.Del.76].

Strymon. River in Thrace [Apd.1.3.4, 2.5.10, 3.5.1; Cal.Del.26; Nonn.43.417; Ov.Met.2.257].

Stymphaean. From Epirus [Cal.Ar.172].

Stymphalian. Relative to Stymphalus [Apd.2.5.6; Hyg.Fab.30; Nonn.29.240].

Stymphalus (I). City in Arcadia [Apd.2.5.6; Hom.Il.2.608].

Stymphalus (II). Lake in Arcadia [Apd.2.5.6; Arg.2.1053; Ov.Met.9.187].

Stymphalus (III). Mountain in Arcadia [Nonn.13.289; Ov.Met.5.585].

Styra. Place in Euboea [Hom.Il.2.539; Nonn.3.160].

Styx (I). Place in Euboea [Nonn.13.163].

Styx (II). River in the Underworld [Apd.1.2.5; Hom.Il.2.755, 8.369, 14.271, 15.37; Hom.Od.5.185, 10.514; Nonn.9.135, 12.217, 14.46; Ov.Met.1.139, 1.189, 1.737, 3.272, 3.290, 3.505, 3.695, 4.434, 4.437, 5.115, 5.504, 6.662, 10.313, 10.697, 11.500, 12.322, 13.465, 14.155, 14.591].

Sulmo. City midway between Rome and the Adriatic Sea (Sulmona) [Ov.Fast.4.79].

Sumatia. City in Arcadia founded by Sumateus, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.4].

Sunium. A headland of Attica [Apd.Ep.6.29; Cal.Del.47; Hom.Od.3.278].

Sydros. The river Sutlej [Nonn.32.288].

Symaethus. City in Sicily [Ov.Met.13.750, 13.879].

Syme. A small island between Caria and Rhodes. Syme joined the alliance against Troy [Apd.Ep.3.11ff.; Hom.Il.2.671; QS.11.60].

Symplegades. Clashing Islands, at the entrance of the Black Sea [Hyg.Fab.19, 21].

Syracuse. City in Sicily [Nonn.6.354].

Syria (I). An isle above Ortygia [Hom.Od.15.403].

Syria (II). The region between the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Euphrates River [Apd.2.1.3, 3.5.1, 3.14.3; Hyg.Fab.197; Nonn.18.328].

Syros. One of the Cyclades Islands [Ov.Met.7.464].

Syrtis. Quicksands in Libya [Arg.4.1235; Nonn.43.299; Ov.Met.8.120].

Taenarum, named after one Taenarus, is the middle one of the three southern Peloponnesian extremities. In Taenarum was found one of the mouths of the descent to the Underworld; but some, disbelieving that the gods collect souls under the earth, have said that a serpent lived on Taenarum, called the hound of Hades because anyone bitten by this beast died of the poison at once. This is the so called hound, they say, that Heracles 1 fetched in the Underworld, and not Cerberus 1, the three-headed hound of Hades. Also Theseus and Pirithous descended to the Underworld throught the entrance at Taenarum, when the latter wished to marry Persephone. According to some it was at Taenarum that the citharist Arion 2 landed after being thrown into the sea by pirates; and the statue of him that was placed there, they say, had the likeness of the dolphin that saved him by bringing him to the shore (see also Corinth). There was once a spring on Taenarum, which showed harbors and ships to those who looked into the water, until the day a woman, washing dirty clothes in the spring, put an end to the marvel [Apd.2.5.12; Arg.1.179, 3.1241; Hyg.Ast.17; Hyg.Fab.14, 79; Pau.3.14.2, 3.25.5, 3.25.8; Strab.13.2.4]

Tagus. River in Spain [Ov.Met.2.251].

Tanagra. City east of Boeotian Thebes [Nonn.4.334, 44.5].

Tanais. The river Don [Nonn.23.85; Ov.Met.2.242].

Taphos. One of the islands off the coast of Acarnania [Apd.2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7; Hom.Od.1.105, 1.181, 1.417, 1.419, 14.452, 15.427, 16.426].

Taras. Taras is the name of a river and a city in southern Italy, both named after Taras, son of Poseidon and a Nymph. There the Spartan Phalanthus 1 founded the colony Tarentum (modern Taranto). Phalanthus 1 was not fortunate at the beginning of his war against the Tarentines. But when his wife Aethra 3, seeing her husband's fortunes coming to nothing, wept profusely on his head, he understood that the oracle that had declared that he would win territory and city when he felt rain under a cloudless sky, was being fulfilled. After that he renewed his military efforts conquering the city [Pau.10.10.8].

Tarentum. Greek colony in Italy [Pau.10.10.6].

Tarphe. Place in Epicnemidian Locris [Hom.Il.2.533; Strab.9.4.6].

Tarsos. City in Cilicia, Asia Minor [Nonn.1.260, 2.636, 41.85, 41.357].

Tartaros. A gloomy place in the Underworld [Apd.1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.2.1, 3.10.4; Hes.The.682, 721, 725, 807, 851, 868; Hom.Il.8.13, 8.481; Hyg.Fab.139, 146, 150; Nonn.10.18, 13.32, 14.48, 31.50, 36.104, 36.205, 38.88, 44.205, 44.209; Ov.Met.5.423, 6.676, 12.619].

Tartessus. Phoenician city near Gades (Cádiz) in Spain [Apd.2.5.10; Ov.Met.14.416].

Tasus. Mount in Panchaea [Hyg.Fab.274].

Tauris. Now Crimea [Apd.Ep.3.22, 6.26, 6.27; Cal.Ar.174; Hyg.Fab.98, 120, 122; Nonn.13.116].

Tauros. Mountain in Cilicia, Asia Minor [Nonn.1.409, 2.37, 2.168, 2.633, 2.684, 3.17, 17.137, 17.330, 17.379, 18.45, 23.83, 25.375, 33.284, 34.190, 48.376, 48.470; Ov.Met.2.217].

Taygetus. Mountain in Laconia [Cal.Ar.188; Hom.Od.6.103].

Tegea. City of southeastern Arcadia [Apd.2.7.3, 2.7.4, 3.7.5, 3.7.6; Arg.1.162, 1.398; Hom.Il.2.607; Hyg.Fab.14, 173a; Ov.Met.8.317; Pau.8.3.4, 8.44.7].

Teleboans. People from Taphos [Apd.2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8].

Telepylus. Citadel of the Laestrygonians [Hom.Od.10.82].

Temeneia. City in Phrygia [Nonn.13.513].

Temenium. Place in Argive territory [Pau.2.38.1].

Temmicans. Early inhabitants of Boeotia [Nonn.5.39].

Tempe. Thessalian valley through which the river Peneus flows from the foot of Pindus [Cal.Del.105; Ov.Met.1.569, 7.222, 7.371].

Tenedos. Island off the coast of the Troad [Apd.Ep.3.23, 3.25, 3.26, 3.28, 5.14, 5.15, 5.19, 5.21, 6.5, 6.12; Hom.Il.1.38, 1.452, 11.625, 13.33; Hom.Od.3.159; Hyg.Fab.108, 135; Ov.Met.1.516, 12.109, 13.174].

Tenos. One of the Cyclades Islands [Apd.3.15.2; Apd.Ep.6.5; Arg.1.1305; Ov.Met.7.469].

Teos. City in Lydia, Asia Minor [Strab.14.1.3].

Tereia. Mountain in the Troad [Hom.Il.2.829].

Termera. Termera or Termerum is in the promontory called Termerium in the mainland opposite the island of Cos, which is one of the Sporades (now Dodecanese), islands off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor. King Xanthus 10 of Termera received Apterus when he went into exile after having murdered Lycastus 2. It is told that Lycastus 2 fell in love with Eulimene 2 and consorted with her though her father had already betrothed her to Apterus, who was at the time the most famous man among the Cretans. Eulimene 2 was daughter of Cydon 1, founder of Cydonia in Crete and son of Tegeates, son of impious Lycaon 2. During the reign of Cydon 1 several Cretan cities revolted against him and Cydon 1 inquired of the oracle which course of action he could take in order to win the war. The oracle answered that he must sacrifice a virgin and the king, having let lots be cast upon all the virgins in his realm, was confronted with the fact that the fatal lot fell upon his own daughter. The girl's lover Lycastus 2 then, wishing to save her life, confessed that Eulimene 2 was no longer a virgin since he had made love to her. Nevertheless the assembly voted that she must die, and when she had been sacrificed Cydon 1 ordered her belly to be cut through by the navel and when this had been done, she was found to be with child. When it became clear that Lycastus 2 and Eulimene 2 had been lovers, Apterus, feeling outraged, laid an ambush and murdered Lycastus 2, and for that reason he was sent into exile to Termera [Parth.35; Strab.14.2.18.].

Termessus. River flowing round Helicon [Pau.9.29.5].

Teucri (Teucrians). People living in the Troad, so called after the first king in the region [Apd.3.12.2; Ov.Met.13.705, 13.728, 14.72].

Teumessos. Mountain in Boeotia [Nonn.5.60].

Teuthrania. Region near the river Caicus and the city of Pergamum, north of Mount Sipylus (Asia Minor) [Apd.2.7.4].

Thasos. Northernmost large island in the Aegean Sea and city in that island [Apd.2.5.9, 3.1.1; Nonn.2.684].

Thaumacia. City in Phthiotis [Hom.Il.2.716].

Thebes (I). Hypoplacian Thebes, a city in Mysia [Apd.Ep.3.33; Hom.Il.2.691, 6.397, 22.479].

Thebes (II). City in Egypt [Hom.Il.9.381; Nonn.3.299, 4.266, 4.304, 5.86, 41.270].

Thebes (III). City of southern Boeotia [Apd.1.8.2, 1.8.6, 1.9.13, 1.9.23, 2.4.6-9, 2.4.11, 2.6.1, 2.7.6, 3.4.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.4-.6, 3.5.8-9, 3.6.1-2, 3.6.6-8, 3.7.1-5, 3.9.2; Cal.BP.57].

Thelpusa. City in Arcadia [Pau.8.25.1].

Themiscyra. City at the mouth of the Thermodon River [Apd.2.5.9].

Themiscyreian cape. Where the river Thermodon flows into the Black Sea [Arg.2.371].

Thenae. City in Crete [Cal.Ze.43].

Thera. Island north of Crete [Arg.4.1763; Cal.Ap.75; Hdt.4.150-159; Pin.Pyth.4.6].

Thermodon. River in Cappadocia near Caucasus, emptying in the Black Sea [Apd.1.9.23, 2.5.9; Arg.2.370, 2.805, 2.970; Hyg.Fab.21; Nonn.20.198, 36.263, 37.119; Ov.Met.2.249, 9.189].

Thermydrae. Harbour in Rhodes [Apd.2.5.11].

Thespiae. Boeotian city west of Thebes [Apd.2.4.10; Arg.1.106; Cal.BP.60; Hom.Il.2.498; Hyg.Fab.97; Nonn.4.336, 13.70].

Thesprotia. Southern Epirus [Apd.2.7.6, 3.7.5; Apd.Ep.7.34, 7.35; Hom.Od.14.315, 14.316, 14.335, 16.65, 16.427, 17.526, 19.271, 19.287, 19.292].

Thessaly. The most northeasterly region of peninsular Greece [Apd.1.7.2, 1.7.5, 1.9.7, 1.9.10, 1.9.19, 3.10.3; Apd.Ep.6.15, 6.15b; Cal.Del.103, 109; Hyg.Fab.4, 14, 49, 173a; Nonn.3.207, 6.374, 22.76, 29.16, 37.617, 39.11; Ov.Met.12.190].

Thisbe. City in Boeotia [Hom.Il.502; Nonn.13.61; Ov.Met.11.300].

Thocnia. City in Arcadia founded by Thocnus, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.2].

Thoricus. Place in Attica [Apd.2.4.7; Nonn.13.187].

Thrace. The region between the Black and Aegean seas [Apd.1.6.3, 1.9.17, 1.9.21, 2.5.9, 2.5.10, 3.1.1, 3.4.1, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.14.8, 3.15.4; Apd.Ep.3.34, 4.4, 6.16; Arg.1.24, 1.29, 1.213, 1.214, 1.602, 1.614, 1.632, 1.637, 1.678, 1.795, 1.799, 1.821, 1.923, 1.954, 1.1110, 1.1113, 1.1300, 2.238, 2.427, 4.288, 4.320, 4.905, 4.1484; Hom.Il.2.844, 4.519, 4.533, 5.462, 6.7, 9.5, 9.72, 10.434, 10.464, 10.470, 10.487, 10.506, 10.518, 11.222, 13.4, 14.227, 20.485, 24.234, 23.808, Ov.Met.5.276, 6.87].

Thracian Straits. The Bosphorus [Apd.2.1.3].

Thriasian plain. The plain in which Eleusis stands [Apd.3.14.2].

Thrinacia. See Trinacia.

Thronium. A place in Locris about the streams of Boagrius [Hom.Il.2.533].

Thryoessa. City near Pylos [Hom.Il.11.711].

Thryum. City in Messenia [Hom.Il.2.591].

Thurium. City in southern Italy [Apd.Ep.6.15b].

Thyamis. River in Epirus [Pau.1.11.2].

Thybris. The river Tiber in Italy [Ov.Met.2.259, 14.426, 14.448].

Thymbre. City in the Troad [Apd.Ep.3.32; Hom.Il.10.430].

Thymbrios. River flowing into the Scamander [Nonn.3.347].

Thynia. Thracian territory opposite Bithynia [Arg.2.350, 2.460, 2.529, 2.548; Ov.Met.8.719].

Thyraeum. City in Arcadia founded by Thyraeus, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.3, 8.35.7].

Thyrea. City in Argolis [Pau.8.3.3].

Tiasa. River in Lacedaemon [Pau.3.18.6].

Tibareni. People living in northern Asia Minor near the Chalybes [Arg.2.377, 2.1010].

Tigres. Older name of the River Harpys in the Peloponnesus [Apd.1.9.21].

Tilphussa. A spring in Haliartus [Apd.3.7.3].

Tiryns. City in Argolis (southeast of Argos) [Apd.2.1.5, 2.2.1, 2.4.1-6, 2.4.12, 2.5.1, 2.6.2; Hom.Il.2.559, 6.160; Ov.Met.7.410, 9.268, 12.564, 13.400; Hyg.Fab.57; Arg.1.136].

Tisaean cape. In Thessaly [Arg.1.568].

Titanus. Mountain in Thessaly [Hom.Il.2.735].

Titaressus. River, tributary of the Peneus [Arg.1.65; Hom.Il.2.751; Hyg.Fab.14].

Tithorea. City in Phocis [Pau.10.32.9].

Tmarus. Mountain near Dodona in Epirus [Cal.Dem.51].

Tmolos. Mountain in Maeonia, Asia Minor, north of the river Cayster [Hom.Il.2.866, 20.385; Nonn.10.257, 10.318, 11.338, 27.217, 33.255, 37.136, 40.153, 40.273, 43.81, 43.316, 48.716; Ov.Met.2.217, 6.15, 11.151, 11.156, 11.164].

Torebios. Place in Lydia [Nonn.13.466].

Trachinia. Southern Thessaly [Ov.Met.11.502].

Trachis (Trachin). City in Trachinia, southern Thessaly [Apd.2.7.6, 2.7.7, 2.8.1; Arg.1.1356; Hom.Il.2.682; Ov.Met.11.269, 11.282, 11.351, 11.627].

Trapezus. City in Arcadia founded by Trapezeus, son of Lycaon 2 [Apd.3.8.1; Pau.8.3.3].

Tricca. City in western Thessaly [Apd.Ep.3.14; Arg.2.955; Hom.Il.2.729, 4.202; Hyg.Fab.97].

Tricoloni. City in Arcadia founded by Tricolonus 1, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.4].

Trinacia (Trinacria, Trinacris). Sicily [Apd.1.9.25; Apd.Ep.7.22; Arg.4.291, 4.965, 4.994; Cal.Ar.57; Hom.Od.11.107, 12.127, 12.135, 19.275; Nonn.15.274, 27.195, 38.169; Ov.Met.5.347].

Triopum. A place in Caria [Cal.Dem.30, 31].

Triteia. City in Achaea [Pau.7.22.8].

Triton (I). River in Boeotia [Hes.The.929ff.].

Triton (II). Lake in Libya [Arg.4.1391, 4.1444; Nonn.13.349].

Troad. The region about Troy. See Abydus, Alizones, Antandrus, Apaesus, Arisbe, Cilla, Colonae, Paesus, Pedasus, Percote, Pityeia, Practius, Rhebas, Rhoeteum, Selleis, Tenedos, Tereia, Teucri or Teucrians, Thymbre, Troy and Satnioeis.

Troezen. City of southeastern Argolis on the Saronic Gulf [Apd.3.10.1, 3.15.7; Eur.Hcl.207; Eur.Med.683; Pau.2.30.5, 2.30.8-9, 9.22.5; Plu.GQ.19; Plu.The.25.4; Strab.8.6.14].

Troy. Phrygian city in northwestern Asia Minor [Apd.1.8.6, 1.9.13, 2.5.9, 2.7.1, 3.12.6, 3.13.8; Apd.Ep.3.5, 3.6.3.11, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.20, 3.28, 3.30, 3.32, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 5.3, 5.6.5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.12, 5.16, 5.22, 5.23, 6.10.6.14, 6.15b, 6.19, 6.21; Hom.Il.1.129, passim; Hom.Od.1.2, 1.62, 1.237, 3.85, 3.86, 3.100, 3.220, 3.257, 3.269, 3.276, 4.99, 4.243, 4.249, 4.254, 4.257, 4.259, 4.273, 4.275, 4.330, 5.307, 5.310, 8.82, 8.224, 8.503, 8.504, 8.513, 9.38, 9.259, 10.40, 10.332, 11.160, 11.169, 11.383, 11.499, 11.510, 11.532, 11.547, 12.189, 12.190, 13.248, 13.315, 13.388, 14.71, 14.229, 14.469, 15.153, 17.119, 17.314, 18.260, 18.261, 18.266, 19.187, 22.36, 22.228, 24.27, 24.31, 24.37].

Tuscany. Etruria. Country on the north-western coast of Italy [Hyg.Fab.134; Ov.Met.14.223, 14.615; Plu.Rom.2.1; Vir.Aen.10.207, 12.289].

Tyros. City in Phoenicia [Nonn.3.323, 4.110, 4.303, 5.56, 8.194, 16.51, 18.351, 20.143, 40.300, 40.304, 40.316, 40.327, 40.342, 40.533, 40.537, 40.579, 42.17, 42.123, 45.127; Ov.Met.2.845, 3.35, 3.258, 6.61, 11.166].

Tyrrhenia (Tyrsenia). Etruria [Apd.1.9.24, 2.5.10, 3.5.3; Arg.3.312, 4.850, 4.856; Hes.The.1016; Hyg.Fab.134; Nonn.31.89, 37.57, 44.240, 45.105, 45.114, 45.152, 45.215, 47.508, 47.630; Ov.Met.3.696].

Tyrrhenian Sea. Sea to the west of Italy [Apd.Ep.7.1; Arg.4.660; Nonn.6.330, 17.92; Ov.Met.14.8].

Tyrsenia. See Tyrrhenia.

Uatocoitai. People who slept lying upon their long ears. They lived in northern Europe or northern Asia [Nonn.26.94].

Veientes. Inhabitants of Veii, a city in Etruria [DH.2.56.3-7].

Volscians (Volsci). People living in Latium, Italy [Hyg.Fab.252].

Wandering Rocks (Floating Islands). Somewhere north of Sicily. Perhaps the Lipari Islands [Apd.1.9.25; Apd.Ep.7.20, 7.21; Arg.2.285, 2.297, 4.787, 4.924, 4.932; Hom.Od.23.327].

White Isle. Island in the Black Sea near the mouths of the Danube (see also Islands of the Blest) [Apd.Ep.5.5].

White Plain. A place near Boeotian Thebes [Nonn.10.76].

Xanthus. The River Scamander as men called it, or Xanthus as the gods named it [Arg.1.309; Cal.Del.305; Hom.Il.5.479, 6.4, 6.172, .8.560, 12.313, 14.434, 20.74, 21.2, 21.15, 21.332, 21.337, 21.383, 24.693; Ov.Met.2.245, 9.646].

Xynius. Lake in the country of the Dolopians [Arg.1.68; Hyg.Fab.14].

Zabioi. People living in India [Nonn.26.65].

Zacynthos. A large island opposite the Elean coast [Apd.Ep.7.29; Hom.Il.2.634; Hom.Od.1.246, 9.24, 16.123, 16.250, 19.131].

Zancle. Older name for the city of Messana in Sicily [Ov.Met.14.5, 14.47].

Zelia. A city in Phrygia, Asia Minor, near Mount Ida [Apd.Ep.3.35; Hom.Il.2.824, 4.121].

Zerynthos. Place in Samothrace [Nonn.13.400].

Zoetia. City in Arcadia [Pau.8.35.6].

Zone. Thracian city on the Aegean coast [Arg.1.29].

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