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🌍 the Land of the Mariandynoi (Pontos)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11311990" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11311990">📖 Callisthenes FGrHist 124 fr. 53</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11319597" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11319597">📖 Boios, Origins of Birds</span>
  • Information
    territory south of the Black Sea
    Cult site of
    👤 Demeter
    Place of death of
    👤 Idmon (Argonaut) 👤 Tiphys
    Settled by
    👥 the Caucones ethnic collectiveStraboGeographyStraboGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)CallisthenesMythography & HistoriographyCallisthenesLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)Early Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)
    Ruled by
    👤 Lycos (Pontic) king of the MariandynoiApollodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
    Related Entities
    🏺 the Argo 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Demeter 👤 Poseidon 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Idmon (Argonaut) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Lycos (Pontic) 👤 Tiphys 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Mysia (Asia Minor) 🌍 River Thermodon (Pontos) 🌍 Heracleia (Pontos) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 Colchis (Pontos) 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 the Land of the Doliones (Pontos) 🌍 the Land of the Bebryces (Bithynia) 🌍 Salmydessos (Thrace) 🌍 River Phasis (Colchis) 🌍 River Parthenios (Paphlagonia) 🌍 Cappadocia (Pontos) 🌍 Acherousias Promontory (Pontos) 👥 the Caucones 🌍 Tieion (Paphlagonia) 👤 Hierax (Bithynian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.23📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 787-792📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.17-1.9.23📖 Strabo 12.3.5📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 3
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, LibraryDionysios, PeriegesisStraboAntoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Callisthenes FGrHist 124 fr. 53📖 Boios, Origins of Birds
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