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🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos)

  • <span class="a type-11352" data-type_id="11352" data-object_id="11321475" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-11352_11321475">🎨 Cult Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias (LIMC Zeus 89)</span>
  • Alternative names
    Mount Caucasus
    Information
    mountain range east of the Black Sea
    Alternative name
    🌍 the Bed of Boreas (alt. Caucasos)
    Place of death of
    👤 the Caucasian Eagle 👤 Caucasos
    Named by
    👤 Zeus
    Eponym
    👤 Caucasos
    Related Entities
    👤 Achilles 👤 Aietes 🏺 the Argo 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Boreas 👤 Cheiron (centaur) 👤 Cronos 👤 Hera 👤 Zeus 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 🏺 the Golden Fleece 👤 Io 👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer) 👤 Medeia 🌍 Tartaros 👤 Thetis 👥 the Amazons 🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Mysia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Illyria 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 Scythia 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Arabia 🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos) 🌍 River Echedoros (Thrace) 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Thermydrai (Rhodes) 🌍 Colchis (Pontos) 🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly) 🌍 Cimmerian Bosporos 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly) 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Doliones (Pontos) 🌍 Bebryces (Bithynia) 🌍 Salmydessos (Thrace) 🌍 Mariandynoi (Pontos) 🌍 River Phasis (Colchis) 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) 🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia) 🌍 the Hill of Cronos (Olympia) 🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Athos (Chalcidice) 🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos) 🌍 River Hybristes (unlocatable) 🏺 the Chariot of Helios🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Dindymon (near Cyzicos) 👤 Chione (d. of Arcturos) 👤 Caucasos 🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace) 🌍 the Taurus Mountains 🌍 the Alps 👥 the Horses of Helios 🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 the Apennine Mountains 👤 Abaris (Caucasian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.7.1📖 Pausanias 5.11.5-5.11.6📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.17-1.9.23📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 700-740📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 5.1 MacLeod📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 5.2 MacLeod📖 Lucian, Prometheus 1-4📖 Lucian, Prometheus 20📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 6📖 Lucian, To One Who Said, "You're a Prometheus in Words" 1-3📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 5📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 19📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.519📖 Pomponius Mela 1.109📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📖 Strabo 15.1.6-15.1.9📖 Vergil, Eclogues 6📖 Strabo 11.2.19📖 Strabo 11.5.1-11.5.4📖 Strabo 11.5.5📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.1-5.89
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, LibraryPausaniasStraboAeschylus, Prometheus BoundLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, PrometheusLucian, On SacrificesLucian, To One Who Said, "You're a Prometheus in Words"Ps-Plutarch, On RiversPomponius MelaD-Scholia, IliadOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, Eclogues
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Metrodoros of Scepsis FGrHist 184 fr. 7📖 Hypsicrates of Amisos FGrHist 190 fr. 3
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Capitelli Colorati VII 4, 31.51, Pompeii (MANN 8849, 8886; PALP r7-i4-p31-space-26)
    Reported depictions
    🎨 Cult Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias (LIMC Zeus 89)
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