
Cumae - Mythopedia
2023年9月21日 · Cumae (known as Cyme in Greek) was a city in Campania in western Italy. It was first founded as a colony around 740 BCE by Greeks from Euboea, quickly prospering …
Odyssey: Introduction (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Having passed over the Hermaean plain, he arrived at Neon Teichos, the New Wall, a colony of Cumae. Here his misfortunes and poetical talent gained him the friendship of one Tychias, an …
Metamorphoses: Book 14 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
NOW Glaucus, with a lover’s haste, bounds o’er The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore. Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coast Of flaming Aetna, to his sight are lost: At length he …
Aeneid: Book 5 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
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Hades - Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Hades had a few more temples outside of mainland Greece. He had another “Oracle of the Dead” at Cumae in Italy, as well as sanctuaries in Acharaca and Heriopolis in …
Aeneas – Mythopedia
2023年6月6日 · The Trojan left Sicily for the second time and reached the coast of Italy at last. At Cumae, Aeneas, guided by the Sibyl, visited the Underworld to speak with the shade of …
Campania - Mythopedia
2023年2月15日 · Campania contained the city of Cumae, home of a famous oracle, and Lake Avernus, known as an entrance to the Underworld. Campania was a region of west central …
Erymanthian Boar – Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · The tusks of the Erymanthian Boar were supposedly displayed in the Temple of Apollo at Cumae. In some traditions, Heracles wore its hide after he defeated it, just as he …
Typhoeus - Mythopedia
2023年3月25日 · Once the famous Cilician cave nurtured him, but now the sea-girt cliffs above Cumae, and Sicily too, lie heavy on his shaggy chest. And the pillar of the sky holds him down, …
Aeneid: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Arriv’d at Cumae, when you view the flood Of black Avernus, and the sounding wood, The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find, Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin’d. She sings the fates, and, …