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Emathia. Place in Macedonia, or the name of this
region in earlier times [Hom.Il.14.226; Nonn.48.77; Ov.Met.5.313, 12.462; Strab.Frag.7.11].
Encheleans. People living in southern Illyria
[Apd.3.5.4; Arg.4.518].
Eneti. People living in northern Asia Minor
[Hom.Il.2.852].
Enienes or Enianians. See Aeanianians.
Enipeus. Name of two rivers, one in Elis and the other in Thessaly [Elis: Apd.1.9.8;
Strab.8.3.32. Thessaly: Arg.1.38; Hyg.Fab.14;
Ov.Met.7.229].
Enispe. City in Arcadia [Hom.Il.2.606;
Nonn.13.290; Strab.8.8.2].
Enna. Place in Sicily, where a temple of Demeter was built. This might be the spot where Hades abducted Persephone [Cal.Dem.30; Ov.Met.5.385; Strab.6.2.6].
Enope. City near Pylos [Hom.Il.9.150,
9.292].
Epeans or Epeians. People living in Elis.
The name is derived from Epeius 1, son of Endymion, whom Selene loved [Eur.IA.253ff.;
Hom.Il.11.688,
11.694, 11.732, 11.737, 11.744, 13.686, 15.519, 23.630, 23.632; Hom.Od.13.275, 15.298, 24.431].
Ephesus. City at the mouth of the Cayster River,
on the west coast of Asia Minor [Apd.2.6.3; Cal.Ar.238, 258; Hyg.Fab.14, 225].
Ephyra (I). A Thesprotian city. According to Strabo (Frag. Book VII), there were nine cities with this name [Apd.2.7.6; Hom.Od.1.259, 2.328].
Ephyra (II) or Ephyraea. Old name of Corinth [Apd.1.9.3; Cal.Del.42;
Hom.Il.2.659, 6.152;
Ov.Met.2.240, 7.391;
Nonn.20.390].
Ephyra (III) or Ephyre. A place near the river Selleis in Asia
Minor [Hom.Il.15.531].
Ephyri. People living in Thrace [Hom.Il.13.301; Strab.9.5.21].
Epidaurus. City in Argolis on the Saronic coast
[Apd.3.16.1; Hom.Il.2.561;
Ov.Met.3.278, 7.436].
Epirus. The Adriatic coastal region of Greece
between the Ambracian Gulf and Illyria (Albania) [Apd.3.7.6; Apd.Ep.6.15b, 7.34, 7.40; Ov.Met.8.283, 13.720].
Erebus. The darkness of the Underworld, or the place itself [Hes.The.515, 669; Hom.Il.8.368, 9.572, 16.327; Hom.Od.11.37, 11.564, 12.81, 20.356; Ov.Met.5.543, 10.76, 14.404].
Erechtheis. A well of sea water, produced by Poseidon in Athens,
that could be seen in the Erechtheum on the Acropolis [Apd.3.14.1].
Erembians. Perhaps the Arabian Troglodytes
(Cave-dwellers) [Hom.Od.4.84].
Erenea. Village of the Megarians [Pau.1.44.5].
Eretria. City in Euboea, said to have been
founded by the Athenians before the Trojan War [Hom.Il.2.537;
Nonn.13.159; Strab.10.1.8].
Eridanus. Fabulous river, sometimes the Milky
Way, sometimes the Po (Italy), sometimes in Elysium [Apd.1.9.24, 2.5.11; Arg.4.506, 4.596, 4.610, 4.623, 4.628; Hyg.Fab.152a, 154; Nonn.2.327, 11.32, 11.310,
19.185, 22.89, 23.244, 23.251, 38.94, 38.100, 38.411, 38.431, 42.420, 43.414;
Ov.Met.2.324, 2.372].
Erymanthus (I). River in Arcadia [Arg.1.127; Cal.Ze.17; Ov.Met.2.244].
Erymanthus (II). Mountain in northwestern Arcadia [Apd.2.5.4; Hom.Od.6.103; Hyg.Fab.30; Ov.Met.5.608].
Erythia. An island located in the far west in
the river Oceanus. Former name of Gadira [Apd.1.6.1, 2.5.10; Hes.The.290, 983].
Erythini. City in Paphlagonia, northern Asia
Minor [Arg.2.941;
Hom.Il.2.855;
Strab.12.13.5, 12.13.10].
Erythrae. City in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.499; Nonn.13.58; Pau.7.3.6].
Erythraean Sea. The Red Sea [Nonn.5.168, 17.385,
18.298, 20.353, 20.382, 21.171, 24.129, 24.222, 25.22, 28.11, 31.2, 31.276,
33.4, 33.322, 35.82, 35.190, 37.65, 39.326, 40.268, 44.234; Strab.7.3.6].
Eryx. Name of a mountain in western Sicily (now San
Giuliano), and a city [Apd.2.5.10; Ov.Met.2.221; Strab.13.1.53].
Eteonus. Place in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.497; Strab.7.3.6].
Ethiopia. Land south of Egypt, but western and eastern Ethiopians could be distinguished (see also Memnon) [Apd.2.4.3, 3.12.4, 3.15.4; Apd.Ep.5.3; Arg.3.1192; Cal.Del.208; Hes.The.985; Hom.Il.1.423, 23.206; Hom.Od.1.23, 1.57, 4.84, 5.282, 5.287;
Nonn.2.683, 13.347, 17.395, 26.228, 26.340, 39.114, 39.197, 39.199; Ov.Met.2.236, 4.669].
Etis. City in Laconia, southern Peloponnesus
[Pau.3.22.11].
Etna. Mountain in Sicily [Apd.1.6.3; Cal.Del.141; Hyg.Fab.146, 152, 153, 254; Nonn.2.396, 13.318, 28.205;
Ov.Met.2.220, 4.663,
5.352, 5.442, 8.260, 13.770, 13.868, 14.1, 14.160].
Etruria. Mainly Tuscany (see also Etruscans below).
Etruscans. Tyrrhenians. People living in Etruria
(Tyrrhenia = Tuscany, northwestern Italy) [DH.1.30.4; Vir.Aen.8.482].
Euboea. Island off the eastern coast of Boeotia
and Locris [Apd.1.9.26, 2.6.2, 2.7.7, 3.5.5; Apd.Ep.3.11, 6.7, 6.15a; Arg.1.77, 4.1780; Cal.Del.197, 290; Hom.Il.2.535, 2.536; Hom.Od.3.174; Hyg.Fab.14; Ov.Met.9.218, 13.905, 14.4, 14.155].
Euphrates. One of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
[Hyg.Fab.197;
Nonn.23.82, 40.392, 43.409; Ov.Met.2.249].
Euripus. Strait separating Euboea from mainland
Greece [Cal.Del.45].
Europe. The peninsula that constitutes the
western end of Asia has been regarded as a continent; the Mediterranean sea
separates it from Africa. The name appears (apparently for the first time) in
the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo, 250: "... both those who live in rich Peloponnesus and those of Europe ..." Europe is thus the name of mainland Greece and the territories to the north
of it. [Apd.2.1.3, 2.5.10; Apd.Ep.3.1; Arg.4.273; Nonn.13.41, 43.449; Ov.Met.5.648].
Eurotas. River in Laconia [Cal.BP.24; Ov.Met.2.247, 10.169; Nonn.12.166].
Eurymenae. City in northern Magnesia, Thessaly [Arg.1.597].
Eutresis. A town in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.502; Strab.9.2.28].
Evenus. River in Aetolia [Apd.2.7.6; Hyg.Fab.12, 13].
Fair. Kaló. One of the mouths of the river Ister
(Danube) [Arg.4.306,
4.313].
Farfarus. River tributary of the Tiber, Italy
[Ov.Met.14.330].
Gabii. City east of Rome [Livy1.53.4ff.].
Gadira. The same as Erythia, that is Gades (now
Cádiz, southwestern Spain), and adjoining islands [Apd.2.5.10; Strab.3.2.11].
Galatae. See Gauls below.
Gangaridae. Asiatic people who fought against the
Colchians, in the time of the ARGONAUTS [Val.6.65].
Ganges. River in India [Nonn.23.275, 25.273,
27.6, 27.39, 27.163, 31.76, 32.288; Ov.Met.2.249, 4.21, 5.47, 6.636].
Gargaphie. Vale and spring in Boeotia [Hyg.Fab.181; Ov.Met.3.156].
Gargarus. A summit in Asian Mount Ida [Hom.Il.8.48, 14.352, 15.152; Strab.13.1.5].
Gauls (Galatians). People living in western Europe [Cal.Del.184; Dio.5.24.2; Nonn.23.91].
Gazos. Place in India [Nonn.26.56].
Geraestus. Cape on the southern tip of Euboea
[Apd.Ep.2.8; Arg.3.1244; Hom.Od.3.177; Nonn.13.162].
Gerenia. City in southwestern Peloponnesus [Hom.Il.2.336, 2.433, 2.601, 4.317, 7.170,
7.181, 8.80, 8.112, 8.151, 10.102, 10.128, 10.138, 10.157, 10.168, 10.203,
10.543, 11.516, 11.840, 14.52, 15.370, 15.659; Hom.Od.3.68, 3.102, 3.210, 3.253, 3.386, 3.397,
3.405, 3.411, 3.413, 3.474, 4.161].
Gerenians. People of Gerenia [Apd.1.9.9, 2.7.3].
Getae. People in Thrace [Hyg.Ast.2.14].
Geudis. River by the city of Alybe [Nonn.11.37,
43.417].
Glisas. Settlement in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.504; Strab.9.2.31].
Gonoessa. City in Achaea [Hom.Il.2.573;
Strab.8.6.19].
Gortys (I). City in Arcadia [Pau.8.4.8].
Gortys (II) or Gortyna. City in Crete [Hom.Il.2.646; Hom.Od.3.295; Nonn.13.234; Ov.Met.7.778; Pau.8.53.4].
Graea. Citadel in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.498; Nonn.13.77].
Granicus. River in Asia Minor, flowing from the
mountains of Ida [Hom.Il.12.21].
Graucenii. People living on the western coast of
the Black Sea [Arg.4.321].
Greece. The southern part of the Balkan
peninsula [Ov.Met.7.214,
14.474].
Greeks. People of Greece [Apd.1.7.3; Ov.Met.12.64, 12.609, 13.241, 14.220].
Gyaros. One of the Cyclades Islands [Ov.Met.5.252, 7.470].
Gygaea. Place where the Gygaean Lake is, in
Asia Minor near the river Hermus [Hom.Il.2.865, 20.391; QS.11.67].
Gyrtone. City in Thessaly [Apd.Ep.3.14; Arg.1.57; Hom.Il.2.738; Hyg.Fab.14].
Hades. The Underworld [Apd.1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.6, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.3, 1.5.3, 1.9.3, 2.5.12, 3.1.2,
3.5.3, 3.10.7, 3.12.6; Apd.Ep.1.23, 1.24, 2.1, 3.30, 6.26; Arg.2.609, 2.642, 2.735, 3.60, 3.704, 4.1510; Hom.Il.1.3, 3.322, 5.654, 6.487, 7.131, 11.263,
13.415, 14.457, 15.251, 20.294, 20.336, 20.48, 22.52, 22.213, 22.389, 22.425,
23.19, 23.71, 23.74, 23.76, 23.103, 23.137, 23.179, 23.244, 24.246, 24.593;
Hom.Od.3.410, 4.834,
6.11, 9.524, 10.175, 10.491, 10.502, 10.512, 10.560, 11.65, 11.150, 11.211,
11.277, 11.425, 11.475, 11.625, 11.635, 12.17, 12.21, 12.383, 14.156, 14.208,
15.350, 20.208, 23.252, 24.204, 24.264, Nonn.2.107, 11.326, 22.188, 44.164].
Haemonia. Name of Thessaly [Arg.2.504, 2.507, 2.690, 3.1090, 4.1000,
4.1034, 4.1075; Nonn.44.2; Ov.Met.1.568, 2.543, 2.599, 5.306, 8.813, 11.229,
11.409, 11.652, 12.81, 12.213, 12.353].
Haemoniae. City in Arcadia,
founded by Haemon 3, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.3, 8.44.1].
Haemus. Mountain in Thrace [Apd.1.6.3, 2.1.3;
Cal.Ar.114, 172; Cal.Del.63; Nonn.48.73; Ov.Met.2.219, 6.87, 10.77].
Haliartos. Boeotian city, south of Lake Copais
[Cal.BP.61; Hom.Il.2.503; Nonn.4.335, 13.71].
Halus. See Alus.
Halys. River in northern Asia Minor emptying
into the Black Sea [Arg.2.366,
2.953, 4.245].
Harma. Place in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.499; Pau.9.19.4; Plu.PS.6].
Harpys. River in the Peloponnesus [Apd.1.9.21].
Hebrews. People living in Palestine
[Pau.10.12.9].
Hebrus. River in Thrace [Ov.Met.2.257, 11.50].
Helice. City in Achaea [Cal.Del.101; Hom.Il.2.575, 8.203, 20.404].
Helicon. Mountain in western Boeotia [Cal.BP.71, 90; Hes.The.1, 7, 23; Nonn.5.61, 13.72; Ov.Met.2.219, 5.254].
Heliopolis. City in Egypt [Dio.5.56.3-5].
Hellas. First the land of the Hellenes; later the whole of Greece [Apd.1.7.2,
1.8.4, 1.9.16, 1.9.21, 1.9.23, 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 3.10.8, 3.12.6; Apd.Ep.3.6, 3.18, 6.15c; Arg.1.336, 1.416, 1.904, 1.1292, 2.414,
2.637, 2.891, 2.1141, 2.1164, 2.1192, 3.13, 3.29, 3.262, 3.339, 3.375, 3.391,
3.1105, 3.1122, 3.1134, 4.98, 4.349, 4.369, 4.741, 4.1103; Hom.Il.2.683, 9.395, 9.447, 9.478, 16.595, Hom.Od.1.344, 4.726, 4.816, 11.496, 15.80;
Nonn.1.385, 4.249, 4.260, 13.254, 22.279, 40.401, 42.459, 44.3].
Hellenes. The Greeks [Apd.1.7.3; Apd.Ep.3.18, 3.26, 3.29, 3.30, 3.31, 4.3, 5.3,
5.8, 5.10, 5.16, 5.19, 5.21, 6.5, 6.8, 6.9, 6.11, 6.15, 6.15c; Arg.2.209; Hom.Il.2.530, 2.684; Nonn.1.125, 20.207].
Hellespont. The strait dividing the Thracian
Chersonesus from Asia Minor. It is so called after Helle, daughter of Athamas 1 [Apd.1.9.1, 2.5.10; Arg.1.935; Hom.Il.2.845, 7.86, 9.360, 12.30, 15.233,
17.432, 18.150, 23.2, 24.346, 24.545; Hyg.Fab.111; Ov.Met.13.401].
Helos. Place near Sparta [Apd.2.4.7; Pau.3.20.6].
Helus. A citadel by the sea southeast of Sparta [Hom.Il.2.584].
Hemodos. Himalaya [Nonn.40.260].
Henna. See Enna.
Heptaporus. River in Asia Minor flowing from the
mountains of Ida [Hom.Il.12.20].
Heraclea. Part of the land that had belonged to
the Bebryces [Apd.2.5.9].
Heraea. City in Arcadia [Pau.8.26.1].
Hercyna. River in Boeotia [Pau.9.39.2].
Hercynian. Referring to southern Germany [Arg.4.640].
Hermione. Coastal city facing the island of Hydra
in eastern Argolis [Hom.Il.2.560].
Hermos. River flowing north of Mount Tmolos
emptying in the Aegean Sea [Hom.Il.20.392; Nonn.11.40, 12.124, 13.471, 25.456,
28.91].
Hiberos. The river Ebro (Spain) [Ov.Met.7.324].
Hipparis. River in Sicily [Nonn.13.317].
Hippemolgi. People from Scythia and Sarmatia [Hom.Il.13.5].
Hippuris. Small island near Anaphe [Arg.4.1712].
Hire. City near Pylos [Hom.Il.9.150,
9.292].
Histiaea. A place in Euboea [Hom.Il.2.537].
Histria. Region in the eastern coast of the
Adriatic Sea [Hyg.Fab.23].
Homolion. City in Magnesia, Thessaly [Arg.1.594].
Homoloidian (Homoloian). One of the seven gates of Thebes [Apd.3.6.6; Stat.Theb.8.356].
Hyampolis. A place in Phocis [Hom.Il.2.521; Nonn.13.124].
Hyantean. Boeotian [Arg.2.1242; Ov.Met.5.312, 8.310].
Hybla. Citadel in Sicily [Nonn.13.318].
Hydarcans. People living in India [Nonn.26.218].
Hydaspes. The river Jhelum (Pakistan)
[Nonn.17.254, 22.2, 22.365, 22.383, 23.5, 23.76, 24.201, 25.79, 25.280,
26.235, 27.36, 27.48, 27.158, 27.176, 27.187, 27.335, 29.292, 29.298, 29.306,
32.286, 33.258, 38.67, 40.87, 40.135].
Hyde. Territory near Mount Tmolos, Asia Minor [Hom.Il.20.385].
Hyle. City in Boeotia [Hom.Il.2.500, 5.708; Nonn.13.66; Ov.Met.13.684].
Hyllea. A part of the eastern coast of the
Adriatic Sea [Arg.4.524,
4.527, 4.562].
Hyllus (I). City in the land of the Hylleans (see above] [Arg.4.535,
4.1125].
Hyllus (II). River in Lydia, Asia Minor
[Pau.1.35.8].
Hymettus. Mountain in Attica [Nonn.13.183; Ov.Met.10.284].
Hypaepa. City in Lydia [Ov.Met.6.13, 11.152].
Hyperboreans. Race living "beyond the north
wind" [Apd.1.4.5, 2.5.11; Arg.2.675, 4.614].
Hyperea. City in Argolis (afterwards Troezen). Also Poros island [Pau.2.30.8; Plu.GQ.19].
Hypereia. City in Thessaly [Hom.Il.2.734, 6.457; Hom.Od.6.4].
Hyperesia. City in Achaea [Hom.Il.2.573; Hom.Od.15.254].
Hypius. River in northern Asia Minor in the
land of the Mariandynians [Arg.2.795].
Hypsistan (Hypsistae). One of the seven gates of Thebes [Apd.3.6.6; Stat.Theb.8.356].
Hypsus (I). City in Arcadia,
founded by Hypsus, son of Lycaon 2 [Pau.8.3.3, 8.35.7].
Hypsus. Mountain in Arcadia [Pau.8.35.7].
Hyria. A Boeotian city [Apd.3.5.5, 3.14.3;
Hom.Il.2.496;
Nonn.13.96; Ov.Met.7.371].
Hyrmina. Small city in Elis [Hom.Il.2.616].
Hysporos. Place in India [Nonn.26.168].
Ialysus. City in Rhodes [Hom.Il.2.656].
Iaon. River in Arcadia [Cal.Ze.21].
Iapygia. Territory in the "heel" of
Italy [Ov.Met.14.458,
14.510].
Iardanus. River in Elis [Hom.Il.7.135].
Iberia. Spain [Apd.Ep.6.15].
Icaria. Large island in the Aegean Sea, west of
Samos [Apd.2.6.3, 3.5.3; Hyg.Fab.186].
Icarian Sea. Near the island Icaria, west of Samos
[Apd.Ep.1.13; Cal.Del.14; Hom.Il.2.145].
Ida (I). Mountain southeast of Troy [Apd.3.12.5; Apd.Ep.3.2, 5.9, 5.14; Arg.1.930; Cal.BP.18; Hes.The.1010; Hom.Il.3.320, 4.475, 8.47, 8.75, 8.207, 8.397, 11.112,
11.183, 11.196, 11.337, 12.19, 13.13, 14.162, 14.283, 14.287, 14.293, 14.307,
14.332, 15.5, 15.151, 15.169, 16.677, 20.91, 20.189, 20.218, 21.449, 21.559,
22.171, 23.117, 24.291; Hyg.Fab.92; Nonn.3.56, 10.310, 10.318; Ov.Met.4.289, 4.293, 13.324].
Ida (II). Mountain in Crete [Arg.2.1234;
Nonn.2.695, 3.235, 13.244, 28.293, 37.94].
Idaean. Referring to Mount Ida in Crete [Arg.1.1128, 1129].
Ilian. Referring to Ilium (Troy) and the Ilian country (the Troad) [Apd.3.12.3].
Ilissus. River near Athens [Apd.3.15.2; Arg.1.215;
Nonn.41.223, 47.265].
Ilium, Ilion or Ilios. Troy [Apd.2.6.4, 3.12.3, 3.12.5; Apd.Ep.5.7, 5.10, 6.2, 6.15b, 6.15c, 6.20, 7.2; Hom.Il.1.71, passim; Hom.Od.2.172, 8.495, 8.578, 8.581, 9.39, 10.15, 11.169,
14.71, 14.238, 18.252, 19.125, 19.182, 19.597, 23.19; Hyg.Fab.10, 273; Nonn.25.26; Ov.Met.13.408, 13.505, 14.467].
Illyria. Region north of Epirus [Apd.1.9.25,
2.1.3, 2.5.11, 3.5.4; Hyg.Fab.6, 184, 240, 254; Nonn.2.676, 4.419, 44.1, 44.116; Ov.Met.4.568].
Imbrasus (I). River in Samos [Arg.2.866; Cal.Ar.228].
Imbrasus (II). Former name of Samos [Hyg.Fab.14].
Imbros. Island in the northern Aegean Sea,
south of Samothrace [Arg.1.924;
Hom.Il.13.33, 14.281,
21.43, 24.78, 24.753].
Inachus. River in Argolis [Apd.2.1.3; Cal.Del.74; Nonn.39.52, 47.530].
Inarime. Island off the coast of Campania,
southern Italy [Ov.Met.14.89].
India. Country in southern Asia [Apd.1.9.28,
3.5.1, 3.5.2; Arg.2.906;
Hyg.Fab.131, 133;
Nonn.4.120, 6.215, 9.149, 13.3, 15.2, 15.87, 15.89, 16.235, passim; Ov.Met.4.21, 4.606, 5.47].
Indus. River in India [Nonn.24.27, 26.247,
27.144, 27.155, 32.287].
Inopus. A stream in Delos [Cal.Ar.171, Cal.Del.263].
Iolcus. City in Thessaly on the coast of the
Gulf of Pagasae [Apd.1.8.2, 1.9.11, 1.9.16, 1.9.26, 1.9.27, 3.13.7; Arg.1.906, 3.89, 3.1091, 3.1109, 3.1135,
4.1163; Cal.Ar.208;
Hes.The.997; Hom.Il.2.712; Hom.Od.11.256; Hyg.Fab.14, 173a; Ov.Met.7.158].
Ionian Sea. The sea between Greece and southern
Italy [Apd.2.1.3, 2.5.10; Apd.Ep.5.15b; Arg.4.289,
4.632, 4.982; Hyg.Fab.145;
Nonn.3.274, 43.296].
Ionians. One of the main Hellenic groups. In
time they emigrated to Asia Minor (Ionia) [Apd.1.7.3; Arg.1.959, 1.1076; Hom.Il.13.685].
Islands
of the Blest. A
place, similar to the Elysian fields, where the virtuous dwell after death.
In it they retain their faculties and enjoy a life free of care. Some have
identified the Islands of the Blest with
Elysium, but others say that these islands were to be found by the (western)
limits of Libya, that is, beyond the pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar) in the
Atlantic Ocean [Apd.3.10.1; Apd.Ep.5.5, 7.37; Phil.VA.5.3].
Ismarus. City of the Cicones on the Aegean coast of Thrace [Apd.Ep.7.2; Hom.Od.9.40, 9.198; Hyg.Fab.125; Ov.Met.13.530].
Ismenides. Theban women (name derived from the
river Ismenus) [Ov.Met.3.734,
4.31, 4.562, 6.159].
Ismenus. River of Boeotia, near Thebes [Cal.Del.77; Ov.Met.2.244; Nonn.12.151, 26.71, 44.9, 44.144,
44.166].
Issa. Island in the Adriatic Sea [Arg.4.565].
Ister. The river Danube [Arg.4.284, 4.325; Ov.Met.2.249].
Isthmus. The Isthmus of Corinth [Apd.1.9.27, 2.5.7, 2.6.3, 2.7.2, 2.8.2,
3.4.3, 3.16.2; Apd.Ep.2.5; Arg.3.1240; Hyg.Fab.2, 273; Ov.Met.6.419, 6.420, 7.405, 43.198, 43.201].
Italy. Large peninsula and country in the
middle of the Mediterranean sea, west of Greece [Apd.Ep.6.15, 6.15b, 6.15c; Hyg.Fab.127, 141; Ov.Met.14.17].
Ithaca. Island between Cephallenia and the
Acarnanian coast. Home of Odysseus [Apd.Ep.3.7, 7.30, 7.35; Hom.Il.2.184, 2.632, 3.201; Hom.Od.1.18, 1.88, 1.163, 1.172, 1.247, 1.386,
1.395, 2.25, 2.161, 2.229, 4.555, 4.601, 4.608, 4.671, 4.845, 9.21, 9.531,
10.522, 11.30, 11.111, 11.162, 11.361, 11.480, 12.138, 12.345, 13.97, 13.248,
13.256, 13.325, 14.98, 14.126, 14.182, 14.189, 14.329, 14.344, 15.36, 15.482,
15.510, 16.58, 16.223, 16.251, 18.2, 19.132, 19.399, 19.462, 21.18, 21.109, 21.346,
22.30, 22.45, 22.223, 23.176, 24.104, 24.259, 24.269, 24.284, 24.443, 24.531,
Ov.Met.13.98, 13.103,
13.711, 14.169; Hyg.Fab.97,
125, 126, 127, 173a].
Ithome. City in Thessaly [Hom.Il.2.729; Strab.9.5.17].
Itone. Place in Lydia [Nonn.13.465].
Itonus. Thessalian city [Apd.2.7.7; Cal.Dem.74].
Laas. Coastal city south of Sparta [Hom.Il.2.585].
Labyrinth. A chamber whose passageways made it
difficult to get out of. It was the prison of the Minotaur in Crete [Apd.3.1.4, 3.15.8; Apd.Ep.1.8, 1.12; Hyg.Fab.40, 42].
Lacedaemon. Sparta and
the region about Sparta [Apd.1.8.2, 2.7.3,
2.8.4, 2.8.5, 3.10.3, 3.10.5, 3.14.5, 3.15.8; Apd.Ep.1.23, 3.12; Cal.BP.24; Hom.Il.2.581, 3.239, 3.244, 3.443; Hom.Od.3.326, 4.1, 4.702, 5.20, 13.440, 15.1,
17.121, 21.13; Hyg.Fab.14;
Nonn.42.463].
Lacereia. City in Thessaly [Arg.4.616].
Lacinium. Promontory near Crotona in southern
Italy [Ov.Met.15.13].
Laconia. The southernmost part of the
Peloponnesus [Apd.2.5.12; Nonn.41.168].
Ladoceia. Suburb near Megalopolis in Arcadia [Pau.8.44.1].
Ladon. River of western Arcadia [Apd.2.5.3, 3.12.6; Cal.Ze.17].
Laestrygones or Laestrygonians. Cannibal people living in the region of Mount
Aetna [Apd.Ep.7.12;
Hom.Od.10.82ff.,
23.318; Hyg.Fab.125;
Ov.Met.14.233;
Strab.1.2.9].
Lamos. River in Cilicia (southern Asia Minor)
[Nonn.24.50].
Lamptrae. Place in Attica [Pau.1.31.3].
LAPITHS. People living in northern Thessaly
[Apd.2.7.7; Dio.4.37.3ff.; Strab.9.5.19].
Larissa. Name of two Thessalian cities
[Apd.1.8.2, 2.4.4; Arg.1.40;
Cal.Del.104; Hyg.Fab.14; Ov.Met.2.542].
Larymna. City in Boeotia [Pau.9.23.7].
Las. City in the middle Peloponnesian promontory
[Pau.3.24.10].
Lasion. Place in Arcadia [Nonn.13.288].
Latium. Territory in central Italy where Rome
is situated [Ov.Met.14.326,
14.390, 14.422, 14.623, 14.832].
Latmian cave. In Caria, Asia Minor [Arg.4.57].
Latmos. Mountain in Asia Minor near Miletus
[Nonn.4.196, 7.238, 48.582, 48.668].
Laurentium (Laurentum). City in Latium [Ov.Met.14.336, 14.342, 14.598; Plu.Rom.23.1; Vir.Aen.11.852].
Laurium. Plain on the western coast of the Black
Sea [Arg.4.321,
4.326].
Lavinium. City in Latium [DH.1.59.3; Ov.Met.14.570].
Lebedus. City in Asia Minor not far from
Ephesus. Lebedus was inhabited by the Carians, who were later driven out by
Andraemon 5 in the course of the Ionian colonization, or else
Andraemon 5 himself founded the city [Pau.7.3.5;
Strab.14.1.3].
Lebinthos.One of the Sporades Islands [Ov.Met.8.222].
Lechaeum. One of the harbours of Corinth [Cal.Del.271; Pau.2.2.3].
Lectum. Cape between Tenedos and Lesbos [Hom.Il.14.284].
Lelantian plain. In Euboea [Cal.Del.289].
Leleges (Lelegians). People living about the river
Satnioeis. Otherwise scattered over parts of Greece and Asia Minor [Hom.Il.10.429, 20.96, 21.86; Ov.Met.7.443, 9.645].
Lemnos. Island in the northern Aegean Sea
[Apd.1.9.17, 3.6.4; Apd.Ep.1.9, 3.27, 5.8; Arg.1.602, 1.608, 1.653, 1.868, 1.873, 2.32, 2.764, 3.1206, 4.1759,
4.1760; Hom.Il.1.593,
2.722, 7.467, 8.230, 14.230, 14.281, 21.40, 21.46.21.58, 21.79, 24.753; Hom.Od.8.283, 8.294, 8.301; Hyg.Fab.15, 102, 255; Nonn.2.224, 2.593, 3.133,
14.17, 25.337, 27.121, 27.330, 28.6, 29.194, 29.341, 30.96, 30.202, 30.205,
31.113, 33.175, 37.126, 43.403, 48.201, 48.542; Ov.Met.13.46, 13.313].
Leontini. City in Sicily [Dio.5.8.1-2].
Lepreion (Lepreum). City of the Cauconians in Elis [Cal.Ze.39; Pau.5.5.5].
Lerna. City and fountain in a swampy region
south of Argos [Apd.2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.5.2; Arg.3.1241, 4.1404; Hes.The.316; Hyg.Fab.30, 34, 151, 169, 169a; Nonn.8.240, 25.209,
25.213, 32.67; Ov.Met.1.597,
9.69, 9.130, 9.158].
Lesbos. A large island in the Aegean Sea
opposite the coast of Asia Minor [Apd.Ep.3.33; Hom.Il.9.271, 9.664, 24.544; Hom.Od.3.169, 4.342, 17.133; Hyg.Fab.204, 253; Nonn.24.231, 42.460, 42.464;
Ov.Met.11.55,
13.173].
Lethe. River or fountain of oblivion in the Underworld [Nonn.12.219, 17.304, 19.175].
Letrini. City in Elis [Pau.6.22.8].
Leucas. The Leucadian Rock. A peninsula (now an
island) of Acarnania [Hom.Od.24.10; Nonn.31.187].
Leucophrys. Tenedos [Apd.Ep.3.25].
Libanos. Lebanon [Nonn.2.402, 4.243, 16.168,
20.145, 25.375, 29.371, 31.202, 32.9, 33.170, 40.343, 41.1, 41.10, 41.19,
41.149, 41.367, 42.18, 42.55, 42.60, 42.123, 42.282, 42.533, 43.39, 43.106,
43.139, 43.312, 43.429].
Liburnian Islands. Islands in the Adriatic Sea [Arg.4.564].
Libya. Ancient name of Africa, the territory
west of Egypt [Apd.2.1.4, 2.5.10, 2.5.11; Apd.Ep.6.15, 6.15a, 6.29, 7.1; Arg.1.81, 1.82, 2.505, 4.1233, 4.1309,
4.1313, 4.1323, 4.1358, 4.1384, 4.1485, 4.1492, 4.1513, 4.1561, 4.1753; Hom.Od.4.85, 14.295; Hyg.Fab.14, 31, 149; Nonn.6.119, 13.302, 13.333,
13.339, 13.364, 24.38, 25.51, 25.59, 30.264, 31.105, 38.353, 38.402, 40.392,
41.46, 44.276; Ov.Met.2.237,
4.617, 5.75, 14.77].
Liguria. Coastal area of northwestern Italy and
southern France [Apd.1.9.24, 2.5.10; Hyg.Fab.154; Ov.Met.2.370].
Ligyans. People living near the Rhodanus [Arg.4.647].
Ligystian. Ligurian [Arg.4.553].
Lilaea. A place in Phocis by the springs of
Cephisus [Hom.Il.2.523].
Lilybaean (I). Promontory in western Sicily [Arg.4.919; Hyg.Fab.14; Nonn.2.397; Ov.Met.13.726].
Lilybaeum (II). City in western Sicily [Apd.1.9.25; Ov.Met.5.351].
Limyre. City in Lycia, southern Asia Minor [Ov.Met.9.646].
Lindus. City in Rhodes [Apd.2.5.11; Hom.Il.2.656].
Locri. The Locri Epizephyrii. People living in
the 'toe' of Italy [Pau.3.19.12; Strab.6.1.7].
Locris (I). Region on the mainland side of the
Euboean Sea (Opuntian Locris). Following the coast in westerly direction, one
comes to Epicnemidian Locris [Apd.1.9.26, 2.5.8, Apd.Ep.6.20].
Locris (II). Ozolian Locris, on the north shore of
the western part of the Gulf of Corinth [Apd.2.8.2].
Lophis. River in Haliartus, Boeotia
[Pau.9.33.4].
Lotus-eaters. People whom Odysseus met in his wanderings [Hom.Od.9.84ff, 23.311; Hyg.Fab.125].
Lucanians. People living in southern Italy [Apd.Ep.6.15b].
Lusa. A place in Arcadia [Cal.Ar.235].
Lycaeus. Mountain in Arcadia [Cal.Ze.4;
Nonn.13.288; Ov.Met.1.698].
Lycastus. City in Crete [Hom.Il.2.647;
Nonn.13.235]. |
