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Taenarus (mythology)

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208: 213: 86:; was said to have had the city, the mountain, and the harbor named after him. Stephanus (who writes of him as a son rather than a grandson of Icarius) considers him to be a figure distinct from Taenarus, son of Zeus. 223:
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edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
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Taenaran gateway: Taenarus, at the tip of the middle peninsula at the south of Peloponnese, was a conventional entrance to the underworld.
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This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
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Index

Greek mythology
Ancient Greek
eponym
Taenarum
Taenarum
Peloponnese
Zeus
Calabrus
Geraestus
Poseidon
Elatus
Icarius
Erymede
Damasiclus


Stephanus of Byzantium
Tainaros
Scholia
Apollonius Rhodius
Ovid
Metamorphoses
10.13
Publius Ovidius Naso
Metamorphoses
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium
Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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