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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
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6762088
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845013
    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, Library Dionysios, Periegesis Strabo Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Callisthenes FGrHist 124 fr. 53 📖 Boios, Origins of Birds
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