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🌍 the Strait of Messina

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  • Information
    between Sicily and the Italian mainland
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134705
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462494
    Place of death of
    👤 Scylla (sea monster)👥 the Companions of Odysseus
    Created by
    👤 Poseidon
    Related Entities
    👤 Poseidon👤 Heracles👤 Scylla (sea monster)👥 the Cattle of Geryon🌍 the Promontory of Scylla (unlocatable)🌍 the Underworld🌍 the Land of the Lotus-eaters (unlocatable)👤 Odysseus🌍 Troy (Troad)🌍 Ithaca (island)🌍 Libya (North Africa)🌍 River Styx (Underworld)🌍 the Land of the Cyclopes🌍 the Islands of Aiolos (unlocatable)🌍 the Island of the Laistrygonians🌍 Aiaia (unlocatable)🌍 the Island of the Sirens (unlocatable)🌍 the Promontory of Charybdis (unlocatable)🌍 Ogygia (island)🌍 Scheria (unlocatable island)🌍 Corcyra (island)🌍 Mount Neriton (Ithaca)🌍 the Seirenoussai (islands)🌍 Syrtis Maior (N. Africa)🌍 Pithecoussai (island)🌍 the Land of the Cimmerians🌍 River Periphlegethon (Underworld)🌍 the Grove of Persephone🌍 River Cocytos (Underworld)🌍 River Lethe (Underworld)🌍 Rheithron (Ithaca)🌍 Lake Avernus (Campania)🏛️ the Road of Heracles (Campania)🌍 the Apennine Mountains🏛️ the Tomb of Baios (Italy)🌍 Lake Acherousia (Italy)🌍 Mount Ossa (Italy)👤 Eurystheus👤 Iolaos🌍 Crete (island)🌍 Egypt🌍 Tiryns (Argolid)🌍 Gadeira (Iberia)🌍 Rhegion (Italy)🌍 Croton (Italy)🌍 Epeiros (N. Greece)🏛️ the Pillars of Heracles🌍 Eryx (Sicily)🌍 Epizephyrian Locris (Italy)🌍 Etruria (Italy)🌍 Liguria (Italy)🌍 Himera (Sicily)🌍 the Palatine Hill (Rome)🌍 Syracuse (Sicily)🌍 Iberia (W. Europe)🌍 Aigesta (Sicily)🌍 Hecatompylos (N. Africa)🌍 Alesia (Gaul)🌍 the Phlegraian Plain (Campania)🌍 Agyrion (Sicily)🌍 Poseidonia (Italy)🌍 Pelorias (Sicily)🌍 Leontini (Sicily)🏛️ the Route through the Graian Alps🌍 Sicily (island)🌍 Cape Scylla (Italy)🌍 Meninx (Africa)👤 Charybdis👤 Circe👥 the Companions of Odysseus
    Mentioned by
    📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 467-476📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 44-68📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 648-661📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 648-767📖 Pausanias 5.25.3📖 Diodoros, Library 4.22.6📖 Diodoros, Library 4.17.1-4.25.1📖 Strabo 1.2.9📖 Strabo 10.2.15-10.2.17📖 Strabo 1.2.36📖 Strabo 6.2.3📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.705-13.749📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.40-14.74📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.1-7.73📖 Pliny, Natural History 3.87
    Mentioned in Text
    Dionysios, PeriegesisLycophron, AlexandraPausaniasDiodoros, LibraryStraboOvid, MetamorphosesPliny, Natural History
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