Aegean Sea
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Aegean · Aegean strait · salt Aegean floods · the Aegean in mid-channel · the broad Aegean sea
in the texts
Helen
The sea crossed by the returning Achaean fleet, site of the storm that scattered and drowned many ships.
Helen:
While they were crossing the Aegean in mid-channel.
Why should I tell you about our losses in the Aegean, and Nauplios’ beacons on Euboia, and my visits to Crete and the cities of Libya, and the mountain-peaks of Perseus?
The Trojan Women
The sea from which Poseidon comes and which he agrees to stir into a deadly storm against the returning Achaean fleet.
I will vex the broad Aegean sea;
From the depths of salt Aegean floods I, Poseidon, have come, where choirs of Nereids dance in a graceful maze;
And you, for your part, make the Aegean strait to roar with mighty billows and whirlpools, and fill Euboea’s hollow bay with corpses, that Achaeans may learn henceforth to reverence my temples and regard all other deities.