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Taenarum (town)

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Taenarum was famous for a green marble much prized in the ancient world, as well as the purple snail that yielded the prized Lacedaemonian Purple dye. It was also famous for valuable marble (
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back among the living. Through this association the infernal world was often styled "Tenarus" among classicist writers.
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on a hydria by the Eagle Painter, c. 525 BC, now in the Louvre, Paris
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Cerberus
Eurystheus
ancient Laconia
stadia
Cape Matapan
Greek underworld
Heracles
Cerberus
Orpheus
Eurydice
Latin
bishop
titular see
Roman Catholic Church
Tainaron
"Tenarus"
Porter, Mary Winearls
What Rome was Built with: A Description of the Stones Employed in Ancient Rome
"Tænarum" 
Catholic Encyclopedia
Richard Talbert
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9
Lund University
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
public domain
Smith, William
Taenarum

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