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🌍 Helene (island)

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  • Information
    island off Attica
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579945
    Identified with
    🌍 Cranae (unlocatable) unlocatable island where Alexander and Helen have sex
    Eponym
    👤 Helen Helen of Troy
    Related entities
    👤 Alexander (Trojan) Trojan hero, abducts Helen👤 Helen Helen of Troy🌍 Troy (Troad) city in the Troad👤 the Eidolon of Helen replaces Helen at Troy in some versions🌍 Scandeia (Cythera) harbor on Cythera🌍 Aigilia (island) island to north west of Crete, now called Antikythera🌍 Cranae (unlocatable) unlocatable island where Alexander and Helen have sex👤 Hera Olympian goddess👤 Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god👤 Hermes Olympian god👤 Menelaos son of Atreus, husband of Helen👤 Proteus (Egyptian) king of Egypt, son of Poseidon🏛️ the House of Menelaos (Sparta) at Sparta🏛️ the Palace of Theoclymenos (Egypt) landmark in Euripides' Helen, located in the Nile delta, possibly at Pharos
    Mentioned by
    📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 90-114📖 Pausanias 1.35.1-1.35.2📖 Pomponius Mela 2.109📖 Strabo 9.1.22📖 Euripides, Helen 31-67📖 Euripides, Helen 1621-1692📖 Pliny, Natural History 21.33.1
    Mentioned in text
    Lycophron, AlexandraPausaniasPomponius MelaStraboEuripides, HelenPliny, Natural History
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Homer, Iliad
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Iliad 3.436-3.447
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