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🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos)

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  • Alternative name
    🌍 the Bed of Boreas (alt. Caucasos)
    Information
    mountain range east of the Black Sea
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863766
    Place of death of
    👤 the Caucasian Eagle👤 Caucasos
    Named by
    👤 Zeus (Olympian)
    Eponym
    👤 Caucasos character in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
    Related entities
    👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Hephaistos👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer)👤 the Caucasian Eagle👤 Heracles🏺 the Argo👥 the Argonauts🌍 Lemnos (island)🌍 Mysia (Asia Minor)🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos)🌍 Colchis (Pontos)🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly)🌍 the Land of the Doliones (Pontos)🌍 the Land of the Bebryces (Bithynia)🌍 Salmydessos (Thrace)🌍 the Land of the Mariandynoi (Pontos)🌍 River Phasis (Colchis)👤 Cheiron (centaur)🌍 Mycenae (Argolid)🌍 Egypt🌍 Illyria🌍 Libya (North Africa)🌍 Arabia🌍 River Echedoros (Thrace)🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable)🌍 Thermydrai (Rhodes)🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans🏺 the Chains of Prometheus👤 Hera👤 Io👥 the Amazons🌍 Scythia🌍 Cimmerian Bosporos🌍 River Hybristes (unlocatable)👤 Hermes👤 Boreas👤 Chione (d. of Arcturos)👤 Cronos👤 Caucasos👤 Aietes👤 Medeia🌍 the Hill of Cronos (Olympia)🌍 Tartaros👤 Achilles👤 Thetis🌍 Mount Ida (Troad)🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace)🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia)🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece)🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily)🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis)🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia)🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor)🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria)👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios)🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia)🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos)🏺 the Chariot of Helios🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace)🌍 the Taurus Mountains🌍 the Alps👥 the Horses of Helios🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily)🌍 the Apennine Mountains🌍 Mount Dindymon (Bear Island)🌍 Acte (Chalcidice)🏺 the Golden Fleece👤 Jason (Argonaut)🏺 the Bow of Heracles👤 Abaris (Caucasian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.7.1📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.17-1.9.23📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11📖 Pausanias 5.11.5-5.11.6📖 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📖 Pliny, Natural History 37.2
    Mentioned in text
    Apollodoros, LibraryPausaniasAeschylus, Prometheus BoundLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, PrometheusLucian, On SacrificesLucian, To One Who Said, "You're a Prometheus in Words"Ps-Plutarch, On RiversD-Scholia, IliadPomponius MelaOvid, MetamorphosesStraboVergil, EcloguesPliny, Natural History
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    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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