Ammon
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Ammon the deity
Delphi · the parched abodes of Ammon
in the texts
Birds
The oracular sanctuaries of Delphi and of Ammon, cited as the traditional pilgrimage sites the birds propose to forgo.
we shall not go to Delphi or to Ammon to sacrifice;
When we want to go to Delphi, we ask the Boeotians for leave of passage;
Alcestis
The desert oracle-shrine of Zeus Ammon, named by the Chorus as another futile place of possible recourse to save Alcestis.
no single spot in all the world remains whither one might steer a course, either to Lycia or to the parched abodes of Ammon to release the hapless lady’s soul;