- 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
- Cult site of
- 👤 Poseidon
- Eponym
- 👤 Tainaros
- Encompases
- 🏛️ the Cave at Tainaron (Tainaron)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Apollo 👤 Cassandra 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Euphemos (Argonaut) 👤 Eurydice (w. of Orpheus) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Poseidon 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Theseus 👤 Orpheus 👤 Persephone 🌍 Tartaros 🏛️ the Chair of Lethe (Underworld) 🌍 Cape Geraistos (Euboia) 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Doulichion (island) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 Arene (Messenia?) 🌍 Thryon (Messenia) 🌍 Aipy (Messenia) 🌍 Erebos (Underworld) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 River Cocytos (Underworld) 🌍 River Lethe (Underworld) 👤 Tainaros 🌍 Pharai (Achaia) 🌍 Chalcis (Elis) 🏛️ Spring Crounoi (Elis) 👥 the Cretan Priests of Apollo 🌍 Argyphea (Messenia?) 👥 the Sheep of Helios 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 🏺 the Lyre of Orpheus 👤 Molossos (rationalized) 🏛️ the Cave at Tainaron (Tainaron) 🏺 the Cloak of Agamemnon
- 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
- 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
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Hecataios of Miletos fr. 27a Fowler 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 150