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🌍 River Tanais (Scythia)

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  • Alternative name
    🌍 River Amazonios (alt. Tanais)
    Information
    modern River Don
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/825398
    Place of death of
    👤 Tanais character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
    Personification
    👤 Tanais
    Eponym
    👤 Tanais character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
    Conquered by
    👤 First Queen of the Amazons described in Diodoros' account as the founder of Themiscyra
    Related entities
    👥 the Amazons tribe of warrior women👤 Tanais character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers👤 Aietes king of Colchis🏺 the Argo ship that carried the Argonauts👥 the Argonauts sailors on the Argo🌍 Libya (North Africa) region in North Africa🌍 Gadeira (Iberia) city on Atlantic coast, modern Cadiz in Spain🌍 Colchis (Pontos) region on the Black Sea🌍 Lake Triton unlocatable river, marsh and lake often conceptualised as somewhere in Libya, associated with Athena🌍 Syrtis Maior (N. Africa) gulf in north Africa🌍 Aithalia (Italy) island, modern Elba🌍 Telamon (Etruria) city in Etruria🌍 Caieta (Italy) city in Italy🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians region in Upper Egypt and south of Sub-Saharan Africa, often amorphous or treated as somewhat fictional🌍 River Nile (Egypt) river in Egypt🌍 River Euenos (Aitolia) river in Aitolia🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) river in western Peloponnese🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos) river south of the Black Sea🌍 River Strymon (Thrace) river in Thrace🌍 River Phasis (Colchis) river in Colchis🌍 River Spercheios (C. Greece) river in central Greece🌍 Spring and River Dirce (Thebes) river at Thebes🌍 River Ismenos (Thebes) river at Thebes🌍 River Maiandros (Caria) river in Caria🌍 River Xanthos (Lycia) river in Lycia, not in the Troad🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly) river in Thessaly👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) son of Helios🌍 River Ganges (India) river in India🌍 River Istros (Europe) river in Europe🌍 River Caicos (Lydia) river in Lydia🌍 River Eurotas (Laconia) river in Laconia🏛️ Spring Peirene (Corinth) at Corinth🌍 River Euphrates (Mesopotamia) river in Mesopotamia🌍 Spring and River Amymone (Argolid) waterway in the Argolid🌍 River Orontes (Syria) river in Syria🌍 River Erymanthos (Arcadia) river in Arcadia on the border with Elis🌍 River Caystros (Asia Minor)🏺 the Chariot of Helios🌍 River Hebros (N. Greece) river in Northern Greece🌍 River Melas (Arcadia) unlocatable river in Arcadia🌍 River Tiber (Italy)🌍 River Po (Italy)👥 the Horses of Helios pull chariot of Helios🌍 River Tagus (Iberia) river on the Iberian Peninsula🌍 River Rhine river in northern Europe🌍 River Rhone river in central Europe👤 Eurydice (w. of Orpheus)👤 Orpheus husband of Eurydice🌍 the Rhipean Mountains (unlocatable) mountains to the north, often located in the Land of the Hyperboreans🌍 Scythia region north of the Black Sea👤 First Queen of the Amazons described in Diodoros' account as the founder of Themiscyra
    Mentioned by
    📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 14📖 Diodoros, Library 4.56.2-4.56.7📖 Pomponius Mela 1.115-1.116📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.453-4.527📖 Diodoros, Library 2.45.1-2.46.6📖 Pliny, Natural History 4.78
    Mentioned in text
    Ps-Plutarch, On RiversDiodoros, LibraryPomponius MelaOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, GeorgicsPliny, Natural History
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Timaios
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Timaios BNJ 566 fr. 85
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