- 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, Library Pausanias Strabo Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lucian, Prometheus Lucian, On Sacrifices Lucian, To One Who Said, "You're a Prometheus in Words" Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Metamorphoses Vergil, 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)