Malea · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

CyclopsClassical · Greek

Cape in Greece both where Silenus's ship was blown off course and cited as Greek sacred territory

and the sacred port of Taenarus and Malea’s furthest coves remain unharmed;

But just as we had come nigh Malea in our course, an east-wind blew upon the ship and drove us hither to the rock of Aetna, where in lonely caverns dwell the one-eyed children of ocean’s god, the murdering Cyclopes.

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OrestesClassical · Greek

The cape where Menelaus was sailing when he learned of Agamemnon's murder.

For I learned Agamemnon’s fate and the death he died at his wife’s hands, as I was trying to put in at Malea;

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OdysseyClassical · Greek

Headland where Zeus raises a violent storm against Menelaos' fleet as he sails home.

Presently, when he too could put to sea again, and had sailed on as far as the Malean heads, Zeus counseled evil against him and made it blow hard till the waves ran mountains high.

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

A promontory and sanctuary near Mytilene, site of a festival the Athenians hoped to exploit and later their naval station.

while the Athenians commanded only the small extent round their camps, Malea being rather a station for their ships and a market [than any thing else].

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For information had been brought them that there was a festival in honour of the Malean Apollo outside the city, at which all the people of the Mytilenaeans kept holyday;

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HellenicaClassical · Greek

The point from which revolted Helots flee to Coryphasium.

At the same period the Lacedaemonians granted terms to the Helots who had revolted and fled from Malea to Coryphasium, allowing them to evacuate Coryphasium unmolested.

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