Lydia and Tmolus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Tmolus · Lydia · Sardis
in the texts
Bacchae
The homeland of Dionysus's Asian cult and of the chorus, and the region the stranger claims as his fatherland.
it surrounds the city of Sardis.
I am from there, and Lydia is my fatherland.
I suppose you are familiar with flowery Tmolus.
The Histories
A mountain in Lydia from which gold dust descends, noted by Herodotus as one of the region's few marvels.
There are not many marvellous things in Lydia to record, in comparison with other countries, except the gold dust that comes down from Tmolus.