- Information
- city and sanctuary on the Southern most tip of the Peloponnese, sometimes identified as an entrance to the Underworld
- Serves as entrance to
🌍 the Underworld realm of Hades
- Cult site of
👤 Poseidon Olympian god
- Eponym
👤 Tainaros hero, eponym of Tainaron
- Encompasses
- 🏛️ the Cave at Tainaron (Tainaron)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1099-1122 📖 Pausanias 3.14.2 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 388-439 📖 Euripides, Cyclops 273-312 📖 Pausanias 3.25.5-3.25.6 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 39 📖 Lucian, The Downward Journey, or the Tyrant 1-4 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 1-63 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 169-202 📖 Strabo 8.6.14 📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.453-4.527 📖 Ovid, Heroides 8
- Mentioned in Text
- Lycophron, Alexandra Pausanias Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Euripides, Cyclops Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, The Downward Journey, or the Tyrant Pindar, Pythian 4 Vergil, Georgics Ovid, Heroides
- Mentioned in citation of
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Cyrene (Libya) Pausanias Euripides Lycophron Hecataios of Miletos Pindar Strabo Palaiphatos Lucian Ephoros Vergil Lycophron, Alexandra Pausanias Hecataios of Miletos Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Euripides, Cyclops Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, The Downward Journey, or the Tyrant Pindar, Pythian 4 Ephoros Vergil, Georgics 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) Geography Mythography & Historiography Tragedy & Satyr Homeric Hymn Pindar Lucian Euripides