Colonus
place · 6 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
this place · Hallowed Colonus · a temple of Neptune outside the city · glade · neighboring fields · shining Colonus · that Colonean spot · this land of fine horses · your Colonus
in the texts
Oedipus at Colonus
The Athenian district where Oedipus arrives, marked by sacred groves, divine presences, and civic praise.
Chorus:
Chorus:
This whole place is sacred;
Against Timarchus
An Athenian district, site of the apartment house used as an example in the argument about the unreliability of names given to buildings.
He says first that the apartment house in Colonus which is called Demon’ s is falsely named, for it does not belong to Demon.
On Moral Ends
A place near Athens associated with Sophocles's residence and the setting of Oedipus at Colonus.
For just now, as I came hither, that Colonean spot turned me toward itself, whose inhabitant Sophocles dwelt before my eyes — Sophocles, whom you know how I admire and how I delight in him.
Against Meidias
Deme associated with Philostratus.
We all know that Philostratus of Colonus was one of the accusers when Chabrias was tried for his life on charges relating to Oropus, and that he showed himself the bitterest of them all, and that afterwards he won the prize at the Dionysia with a chorus of boys.
Phoenissae
Sacred site in Attica, home of the god of horses (Poseidon), revealed by Oedipus as the place where he is fated to die.
Hallowed Colonus, home of the god of horses.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Temple of Neptune outside Athens where the assembly that formalizes the oligarchy is convened.
Afterwards, when the day had arrived, they enclosed the assembly in the Colonus, (a temple of Neptune outside the city, at the distance of about ten stades,) and the compilers brought forward no other motion, but simply this, that any of the Athenians should be at liberty to express any opinion he might please;