Ortygia
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Odyssey
A place used as a geographic reference point for locating the island of Syra.
"You may have heard of an island called Syra that lies over above Ortygia, where the land begins to turn round and look in another direction.
Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo
Ortygia is the birthplace of Artemis in the hymn's pairing of Leto's children.
her in Ortygia, and him in rocky Delos, as you rested against the great mass of the Cynthian hill hard by a palm-tree by the streams of Inopus.