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🌍 Iberia (W. Europe)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11310264" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11310264">📖 Strabo 3.5.5-3.5.6</span>
  • Information
    region now Spain and Portugal
    Alternative name
    🌍 Hispania (alt. Iberia)
    Identified with
    🌍 the Elysian Fields
    Place of death of
    👤 Geryon
    Settled by
    👤 Heracles
    Settled from
    🌍 Messenia (Peloponnese)
    Conquered by
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian)
    Related Entities
    👤 Cronos 👤 Dionysos (Olympian) 🌍 the Elysian Fields 👤 Geryon 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Minos 👤 Odysseus 👤 Rhadamanthys 👥 the Cattle of Geryon 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Messenia (Peloponnese) 🏛️ the Pillars of Heracles 🌍 Italy 🌍 India 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable) 👤 Croton 🌍 River Rhone 🌍 Lacinium (Italy) 👤 Pyrene (Iberian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 16📖 Diodoros, Library 3.74.1-3.74.6📖 Strabo 1.1.4📖 Strabo 1.2.11📖 Strabo 3.2.12-3.2.13📖 Strabo 3.4.3📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.1-15.59📖 Ps-Scylax, Periplous 1📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.159-9.272📖 Pliny, Natural History 3.8📖 Pliny, Natural History 37.31-37.33
    Mentioned in Text
    StraboPs-Plutarch, On RiversDiodoros, LibraryOvid, MetamorphosesPs-Scylax, PeriplousPliny, Natural History
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.561-4.569📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.568-11.600📖 Artemidoros of Ephesos fr. 16 Stiehle
    Reported to have local traditions about
    🌍 Gadeira (Iberia) 🏛️ the Pillars of Heracles
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Strabo 3.5.5-3.5.6
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