- Alternative names
- Phoenicia
- Information
- region in the Levant
- Identified with
🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians region in Upper Egypt and south of Sub-Saharan Africa, often amorphous or treated as somewhat fictional
- Place of conception of
👤 Britomartis daughter of Zeus and Carme, Cretan, favorite of Artemis, also called Dictynna, Aphaia
- Place of death of
👤 Adonis son of Smyrna
- Settled by
👤 Phoinix (Phoinician) son of Agenor, eponym of Phoenicia
👤 Mopsos (Ionian) son of Manto, prophet
- Settled from
🌍 Claros (Ionia) city and oracle of Apollo on coast of Asia Minor
- Eponym
👤 Phoinix (Phoinician) son of Agenor, eponym of Phoenicia
👤 Phoinix (Ethiopian) son of Belos
- Ruled by
👤 Agenor (f. of Europe) son of Poseidon, father of Europe
👤 Cepheus (f. of Andromeda) father of Andromeda
- Conquered by
👤 Ninos (Babylonian) mythical king of Babylon
👤 Ariaios king of Arabia
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.1 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1283-1308 📖 Pausanias 1.14.7 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.68-4.89 📖 Homer, Odyssey 14.191-14.359 📖 Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysos 1-9 📖 Homer, Iliad 23.739-23.753 📖 Pausanias 9.5.1-9.5.2 📖 Pausanias 9.12.2-9.12.3 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1-6.30 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1-31 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 784-830 📖 Strabo 9.2.3-9.2.4 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 3 📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17 📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 4 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 11-27 📖 Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess 4 📖 Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess 6 📖 Lucian, The Dance 58 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.66.1-3.66.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.67.1-3.67.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.70.1-3.70.8 📖 Strabo 10.4.9 📖 Strabo 1.2.30-1.2.35 📖 Strabo 14.4.3 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 648-661 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 40 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.75-14.106 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.1.1-2.3.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.16.1-2.19.10 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.192 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.195 📖 Conon, Narrations 37 📖 Conon, Narrations 40 📖 Conon, Narrations 47
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysos Euripides, Phoenician Women Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, Parliament of the Gods Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess Lucian, The Dance Bacchylides, Dithyrambs Diodoros, Library Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Ovid, Metamorphoses Conon, Narrations Pliny, Natural History
- Mentioned in citation of
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) Apollodoros Pausanias Homer Dionysios Scytobrachion Euripides Lycophron Strabo Palaiphatos Bacchylides Callimachus Lucian Diodoros Antoninus Liberalis Ovid Theophrastos Conon Ctesias of Cnidos Pliny Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Dionysios Scytobrachion Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysos Euripides, Phoenician Women Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, Parliament of the Gods Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess Lucian, The Dance Bacchylides, Dithyrambs Diodoros, Library Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Ovid, Metamorphoses Theophrastos Conon, Narrations Ctesias of Cnidos, Persica 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) Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE) Late Imperial (ca. 235-330 CE) Geometric (ca. 900-700 BCE) Geography Mythography & Historiography Epic Tragedy & Satyr Homeric Hymn Lucian Euripides Callimachus
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 9.12.1-9.12.2 📖 Pausanias 7.23.7-7.23.8 📖 Pliny, Natural History 4.120