- Alternative names
- Thracian Chersonesos Crimean 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 Hades
Apollodoros, 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 Taurians
Apollodoros, 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 Troy
Dionysios 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 Cypria Pausanias Strabo Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lucian, Zeus Rants Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart Diodoros, Library Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Ibis Ovid, Metamorphoses Servius, Scholia on Georgics Pliny, 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)