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🌍 Tauris (Pontos)

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8188815" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8188815">🌍 Athens (Attica) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8253951" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8253951">🌍 Libya (North Africa) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8254029" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8254029">🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) </span>
  • Alternative names
    Thracian ChersonesosCrimean Peninsula
    Information
    peninsula in the north of the Black Sea, modern Crimean peninsula
    Alternative name
    🌍 Pallene (alt. Tauris)
    Serves as entrance to
    🌍 the Underworld realm of HadesApollodoros, EpitomeMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
    Cult site of
    👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Iphigeneia
    Ruled by
    👤 Thoas (Taurian) king of the TauriansApollodoros, EpitomeMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Ovid, IbisOvidLatin🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Pinarius Cerialis III 4, 4, Pompeii (LIMC Artemis/Diana 47; PALP r3-i4-p4-space-a)Wall or panel paintingExclude material sources that MANTO has not ascertained is held in accordance with UNESCO Convention🌍 Pompeii (Campania) city destroyed by Vesuvius
    Conquered by
    👤 Myrine Amazon, buried at TroyDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Related Entities
    👤 Agamemnon 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👥 the Erinyes 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Iphigeneia 🌍 Athens (Attica) 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Pylades 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Thoas (Taurian) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Aulis (Boiotia) 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Scythia 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 Arabia 🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Artemis (Taurian)🌍 India 🌍 Assyria 👤 Myrine 🌍 River Caicos (Lydia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia at Brauron (Attica)🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi🌍 Mount Libanos (Syria) 🌍 Halai Araphenides (Attica) 👤 the Aegis 🌍 the Ceraunian Mountains (Libya) 👤 Pallene 🌍 Comana (Cappadocia) 🌍 Castabala (Cappadocia) 👤 Second Queen of the Amazons
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.22📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.26📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.27📖 Pausanias 1.33.1📖 Pausanias 1.43.1📖 Pausanias 3.16.7-3.16.11📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.26-6.27📖 Cypria Argumentum 8 West📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 3.1 MacLeod📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 44📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 170-182📖 Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart 47📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.106📖 Diodoros, Library 2.45.1-2.46.6📖 Diodoros, Library 3.55.4-3.55.11📖 Diodoros, Library 3.70.1-3.70.8📖 Pomponius Mela 2.11📖 Ovid, Ibis 383-384📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 4.390📖 Strabo 12.2.3📖 Strabo 12.2.7📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 27📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.308-14.357📖 Pliny, Natural History 35.136
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, Epitome CypriaPausaniasStraboLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, Zeus RantsCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisPs-Lucian, Affairs of the HeartDiodoros, LibraryAntoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesPomponius MelaD-Scholia, IliadOvid, IbisOvid, MetamorphosesServius, Scholia on GeorgicsPliny, Natural History
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Herodotos, Histories 4.103📖 Dictys of Crete, Troica FGrHist 49 fr. 5b📖 Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 311-312📖 Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 598-599📖 Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 603-605📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.387-4.452📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 4 Rusten📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 9 Rusten📖 Nicander, Metamorphoses fr. 58 Gow-Scholfield
    Depictions
    🎨 Campanian Red-Figure Neck Amphora attributed to the Libation Painter (Nicholson NM51.17; LIMC Iphigeneia 25)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Centenario IX 8, 3.7, Pompeii (PALP r9-i8-p3-space-41)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Citarista I 4, 5.25, Pompeii (MANN 9111, 9286; PALP r1-i4-p5-space-35)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Pinarius Cerialis III 4, 4, Pompeii (LIMC Artemis/Diana 47; PALP r3-i4-p4-space-a)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di L. Caecilius Iucundus V I, 23.26, Pompeii (MANN 111439; LIMC Iphigeneia 52; PALP r5-i1-p26-space-i)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Vettii VI 15, 1, Pompeii (PALP r6-i15-p1-space-q)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di Sirico VII 1, 25.47, Pompeii (MANN 8994; PALP r7-i1-p25-space-34)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa di T. Dentatius Panthera IX 2, 16, Pompeii (PALP r9-i2-p16-space-b)🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Postumii VIII 4, 4.49, Pompeii (PALP r8-i4-p4-space-33)🎨 Fragment of Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Met 28.57.8a–d)🎨 Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Gregoriano Profano 10450; ASR II, no. 155, pl. 54)🎨 Wall painting from Masseria d'Irace (?), Pompeii (MANN SN 16)🎨 Wall Painting from Herculaneum (MANN 9538)
    Reported depictions
    🎨 Painting of Iphigenia in Tauris by Timomachos (LIMC Iphigeneia 30)
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese)
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