Magnesia and Sepias
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Magnesia · Sepiad headland · Sepias · the headland of Sepias
in the texts
Stromata
Headland where the Persian fleet was wrecked by wind after the Delphic oracle and Delphian sacrifice.
for blowing strongly about the headland of Sepias they shattered the whole equipment of the Persian fleet.
The Histories
Coastal region of Magnesia and its Sepiad headland where the Persian fleet moored and was devastated by a three-day storm.
After sailing along all day, the foreign fleet reached Sepias in Magnesia and the beach between the town of Casthanaea and the Sepiad headland.
This shipwreck proved useful to Ameinocles son of Cretines, a man of Magnesia who owned land around Sepia, for he later picked up many gold and silver cups cast up on shore, found the Persian treasures, and acquired other untold riches.
They spent the night in this way, but at dawn a storm descended upon them out of a clear and windless sky, and the sea began to boil.