Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Ortygia

    place · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    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.
    chapter 15

    Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian ApolloClassical · Greek

    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.
    chap xx of dominion paternall and despoticall

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    Sacred island near Syracuse, invoked at the opening as the wellspring of the victory song.

    Sacred place where Alpheus breathed again;
    chapter 1

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Island district of Syracuse ruled by Hieron.

    Tell them to remember Syracuse and Ortygia, which Hieron rules with his pure scepter and with good counsels, while he attends on the worship of Demeter of the red feet, and on the festival of her daughter with her white horses, and on the might of Aetnaean Zeus.
    chapter 6

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The island district of Syracuse sacred to Artemis, honored by Hieron's chariot victory.

    For you I come from splendid Thebes bringing this song, a message of the earth-shaking four-horse race in which Hieron with his fine chariot won the victory, and so crowned Ortygia with far-shining garlands—Ortygia, home of Artemis the river-goddess:
    chapter 2