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🌍 Tauris (Pontos)

  • <div data-attribute_names="[]"><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="8194399" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_8194399">Apollodoros, <span style="font-style: italic;">Epitome</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="10801386" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_10801386">Pausanias<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="9881298" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_9881298"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Cypria</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11295535" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11295535">Lucian, <span style="font-style: italic;">Dialogues of the Gods</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11296394" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11296394">Lucian, <span style="font-style: italic;">Zeus Rants</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11296671" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11296671">Callimachus, <span style="font-style: italic;">Hymn to Artemis</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11298615" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11298615">Ps-Lucian, <span style="font-style: italic;">Affairs of the Heart</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11305235" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11305235">D-Scholia, <span style="font-style: italic;">Iliad</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11304347" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11304347">Pomponius Mela<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11300603" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11300603">Diodoros, <span style="font-style: italic;">Library</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11305314" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11305314">Ovid, <span style="font-style: italic;">Ibis</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11310632" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11310632">Servius, <span style="font-style: italic;">Scholia on Georgics</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11292578" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11292578">Strabo<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11302437" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11302437">Antoninus Liberalis, <span style="font-style: italic;">Metamorphoses</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11307852" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11307852">Ovid, <span style="font-style: italic;">Metamorphoses</span></span></span><span data-attribute_object_ids="[]"><span class="a type-7140" data-type_id="7140" data-object_id="11328051" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-7140_11328051">Pliny, <span style="font-style: italic;">Natural History</span></span></span></div>
  • Alternative names
    Thracian Chersonesos Crimean Peninsula
    Alternative name
    🌍 Pallene (alt. Tauris)
    Information
    peninsula in the north of the Black Sea, modern Crimean peninsula
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226778
    Serves as entrance to
    🌍 the Underworld realm of Hades
    Cult site of
    👤 Iphigeneia daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaimnestra👤 Artemis Olympian goddess👤 Apollo Olympian god
    Ruled by
    👤 Thoas (Taurian) king of the Taurians
    Conquered by
    👤 Myrine Amazon, buried at Troy
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, EpitomePausanias CypriaLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, Zeus RantsCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisPs-Lucian, Affairs of the HeartD-Scholia, IliadPomponius MelaDiodoros, LibraryOvid, IbisServius, Scholia on GeorgicsStraboAntoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesOvid, MetamorphosesPliny, Natural History
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