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🌍 Mount Taygete (Laconia/Messenia)

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  • Alternative names
    Mount Taygetos
    Information
    mountain range between Laconia and Messenia
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570706
    Place of conception of
    👤 Castor (Spartan)👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)
    Place of birth of
    👤 Castor (Spartan)👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)
    Place of death of
    👤 Taygete
    Eponym
    👤 Taygete
    Related Entities
    👤 Taygete👤 Leto🌍 Therai (Laconia)👤 Castor (Spartan)👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)👤 Leda👤 Artemis🌍 Mount Erymanthos (Arcadia)👤 Idas (Argonaut)👤 Lynceus (Argonaut)👤 Apollo👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan)🌍 Amyclai (Laconia)👤 Zephyr🌍 Icaria (island)🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia)🌍 Perge (Asia Minor)👤 Aigimios👤 Hyllos (s. of Deianeira)👤 Pamphylos🌍 Sparta (Laconia)🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 3.1.2📖 Pausanias 3.20.5📖 Homeric Hymn 33 to the Dioscouroi 1-15📖 Homeric Hymn 17 to the Dioscouroi 1-5📖 Homer, Odyssey 6.99-6.108📖 Cypria fr. 16 West📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 16.2 MacLeod📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224📖 Pindar, Pythian 1 58-80📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 17📖 Pindar, Nemean 10 55-90
    Mentioned in Text
    Pausanias Homeric Hymn 33 to the Dioscouroi Homeric Hymn 17 to the DioscouroiHomer, Odyssey CypriaLucian, Dialogues of the GodsCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisPindar, Pythian 1Ps-Plutarch, On RiversPindar, Nemean 10
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