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🌍 Mount Lycaion (Arcadia)

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  • Alternative name
    🌍 Mount Olympos (alt. Mt Lycaion)
    Information
    mountain in Arcadia
    Possibly the same as
    🌍 Mount Ancaios (Arcadia)
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1878690
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570441
    Cult site of
    πŸ‘€ Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god
    Place of birth of
    πŸ‘€ Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god
    Place of death of
    πŸ‘€ Ereuthalion killed by Nestor
    Games established by
    πŸ‘€ Lycaon (Arcadian I) Arcadian hero, Lycanthrope, son of Pelasgos
    Encompasses
    🌍 Cretea (Arcadia) β€‚πŸ›οΈ Spring Hagno (Arcadia) β€‚πŸŒ the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Lycaion (Arcadia)β€‚πŸ›οΈ the Childbed of Rhea (Arcadia)
    Related entities
    πŸ‘€ Rhea TitanπŸ‘€ Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god🌍 Mount Olympos (alt. Mt Lycaion) alternative name for Mount Lycaion in ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Nestor son of Neleus, leader of the Pylos contingent at TroyπŸ‘€ Ereuthalion killed by Nestor🌍 Arcadia region in the Peloponnese🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) mountain in northern Greece, home of the Olympian Gods🌍 Mount Cyllene (Arcadia) mountain in Arcadia🌍 Mount Mainalion (Arcadia) mountain in ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Pan (god) god of flocks, of varying parentage🌍 River Ladon (Arcadia) river in ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Syrinx pursued by Pan🌍 Tegea (Arcadia) city in ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Lycaon (Arcadian I) Arcadian hero, Lycanthrope, son of PelasgosπŸ‘€ Hermes Olympian god🌍 Corinth (Argolid) city in the Argolid🌍 the Megarid region in mainland Greece🌍 Opountian Locris region on the Greek mainland, facing Euboia🌍 Boiotia region on the Greek mainland🌍 Magnesia (Thessaly) region in Thessaly🌍 Phthia (Thessaly) area of Thessaly, homeland of the Myrmidons, kingdom of PeleusπŸ‘₯ the Cattle of Apollo🌍 Larisa (Argos) the citadel of ArgosπŸ‘₯ the Cattle of Admetos🌍 Pelasgiotis (Thessaly) region in ThessalyπŸ›οΈ the Lookout of Battos (unlocatable) unlocatable landmark somewhere in southern Peloponnese🌍 Coryphasion (Messenia) promontory of southern Messenia🌍 Mount Lycaion (Arcadia) mountain in ArcadiaπŸ‘€ Hagno nurse of ZeusπŸ‘€ Neda eponym of the River Neda, nurse of ZeusπŸ‘€ Theisoa (eponym) eponym of Theisoa, nurse of baby ZeusπŸ‘€ Euandros (Arcadian) Arcadian, founder of Pallantium in Italy🌍 Rome (Italy) city in ItalyπŸ‘€ Philyra (Oceanid) mother of CheironπŸ‘€ Styx (Oceanid) Oceanid, personification of river of the underworld🌍 Parrhasia (city) city in Arcadia🌍 Parrhasia (region) region in Arcadia
    Mentioned by
    πŸ“– Pausanias 8.36.3πŸ“– Pausanias 8.38.2πŸ“– Pausanias 8.41.2πŸ“– Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1-9πŸ“– Pindar, Olympian 13 101-115πŸ“– D-Scholia, Iliad 4.319πŸ“– Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.177-1.243πŸ“– Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.689-1.721πŸ“– Vergil, Georgics 1.1-1.42βš’οΈ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)πŸ“– Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 23
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasCallimachus, Hymn to ZeusPindar, Olympian 13D-Scholia, IliadOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, GeorgicsAntoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Ariaithos of TegeaDidymarchos, MetamorphosesHesiod, Great EhoiaiNicanderAntigonos of CarystosApollonios, EpigramsPamphilos
    Mentioned in citation of
    πŸ“– Ariaithos of Tegea FGrHist 316 fr. 7πŸ“– Didymarchos, MetamorphosesπŸ“– Hesiod, Great Ehoiai fr. 194a, b MostπŸ“– Nicander fr. 40 Gow-ScholfieldπŸ“– Antigonos of CarystosπŸ“– Apollonios, EpigramsπŸ“– Pamphilos
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Arcadia region in the Peloponnese
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