Mount Pelion
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Pelion · the grove of Pelion
in the texts
Iliad
Mountain from which Chiron cut the ashen spear later given to Peleus and wielded by Achilles.
This was the ashen spear from Mount Pelion, which Chiron had cut upon a mountain top and had given to Peleus, wherewith to deal out death among heroes.
this was the spear of Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mount Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes.
On Fate
Mountain in Thessaly whose fir-trees, according to the quoted Ennius verse, furnished timber for the ship at the root of Medea's tragedy.
‘Would that in the grove of Pelion the fir-trees, hewn by the axe, had never fallen to the ground!
Orations
Mountain associated with Achilles' realm, compared to Olympus.
For I do not consider you inferior to Peleus, nor would I call Macedonia weaker than Phthia, nor Olympus less renowned than Mount Pelion;