- Alternative names
- Thracian Chersonesos Crimean Peninsula
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Pallene (alt. Tauris)
- Information
- peninsula in the north of the Black Sea, modern Crimean peninsula
- Serves as entrance to
🌍 the Underworld realm of Hades
- Cult site of
- 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Iphigeneia
- Ruled by
👤 Thoas (Taurian) king of the Taurians
- Conquered by
👤 Myrine Amazon, buried at Troy
- 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
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Rome (Italy) 🌍 Campania (Italy) 🌍 Pompeii (Campania) 🌍 Herculaneum (Campania) Apollodoros Pausanias Dionysios Scytobrachion Euripides Herodotos Strabo Callimachus Lucian Ps-Lucian D-Scholia Diodoros Dictys of Crete Antoninus Liberalis Pomponius Mela Ovid Servius Vergil Nicander Pliny Apollodoros, Epitome Cypria Herodotos, Histories Pausanias Dionysios Scytobrachion Strabo Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lucian, Zeus Rants Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart Diodoros, Library Dictys of Crete, Troica Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Ibis Ovid, Metamorphoses Servius, Scholia on Georgics Vergil, Georgics Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris Nicander, Metamorphoses Pliny, Natural History Greek Latin Early Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE) Early Archaic (ca. 700-620 BCE) Middle Archaic (ca. 620-560 BCE) Late Archaic (ca. 560-479 BCE) Early Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE) Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE) Late Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE) Early Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE) Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE) Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE) Late Antiquity (ca. 306-610 CE) Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE) Late Imperial (ca. 235-330 CE) Geometric (ca. 900-700 BCE) Geography Mythography & Historiography Vessel Wall or panel painting Funerary Container Epic Tragedy & Satyr Nicholson Collection, University of Sydney The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli / National Archaeological Museum, Naples Museo Gregoriano Profano, Musei Vaticani, Vatican City 🎨 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) Lucian Euripides Callimachus Ps-Lucian Exclude material sources that MANTO has not ascertained is held in accordance with UNESCO Convention